Make a water fountain into a hydroponics garden

Have a water fountain in your home? I'm talking about a small mechanical-type waterfall or some kind of fountain that pumps water up and over a rock or plate allowing the water to splash back down to the base of the fountain. If you do, you are very close to having a ready-built hydroponics garden.

To survive, plants need water, oxygen, light, nutrient and adequate temperature. A fountain with a pump fulfills 3 of these requirements: water, oxygen and adequate temperature.

Water is recycled and aerated by splashing back into the base of the fountain so all you really need is a good light source and nutrient in order to have a hydroponics garden.

Simply add hydroponics fertilizer to the water and position the fountain near a window or under artificial grow-type lights and you have a fully functioning hydroponics garden!

Of course you still need something to grow... In this case I would float plants in the base of the fountain allowing the roots to hang into the water.

You can use small wooden platforms or pieces of styrofoam with a hole drilled through the middle of the float in which to insert a plant. What to plant? Lettuce or spinach would be perfect or any kind of low growing herb. I may just try this out myself...

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