Kent Greenhouse Project

Several massive greenhouse projects are taking place around the world for improvements of the eco-environment for green living. In Kent of UK, a huge greenhouse complex is being constructed for commercial salad crops to be grown all year around. The project aims to produce high quality tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers with low carbon footprint.

Sustainable Community Greenhouse Projects

Another greenhouse project taking place in Johannesburg of South Africa is to turn urban parks into a seedbed for sustainable communities. Taking a holistic approach, the project aims to integrate green building with the design of efficient and renewable energy. The greenhouse is a place for recycling, organic farming and nutrition. Urban greenhouses create the foundation for urban green space.


Community greenhouse projects are foundational for sustainable living. They bring benefits to many aspects of society while promoting healthy living for the individuals. In Namibia, a country in southern Africa on the Atlantic coast, a community-based greenhouse is built on the Rehoboth town’s outskirts with yearly yields of 3,000 tomato plants, 1,000 sweet-pepper plants and 200 English cucumber plants. The greenhouse created jobs and the community has become self-reliant on vegetable supplies. The project also allows the community to fund a number of social projects.

Successful Greenhouse Hydroponics Systems

Hydroponic Systems

Hydroponics, which literally means water working, refers to the method of growing plants without soil. Hydroponic systems are sometime referred to as water culture, gravel or sand culture, soilless culture, bag culture, nutri-culture and float systems. The simplest and oldest hydroponic system is a vessel of water in which inorganic chemicals are dissolved to supply all elements required by plants in a soilless culture.


The growth rate of a hydroponic plant is 30 to 50 percent faster than that of most plants grown in soil. Without soil, plants are able to concentrate their energy on growing larger and healthier plant mass, instead of having to grow larger roots to compete for water and soil nutrients.

Hydroponics Systems For Hobbyist

Hydroponic systems are also commercially available for hobby production. Elderly gardeners who are no longer able to bend constantly in their traditional garden can continue to grow orchids and other exotic plants with hydroponics gardening. Urban residents who do not have the space in their loft apartment for a garden would also take up hydroponic growing. They can even continue their business travel as the watering of the plants is taken care of by the hydroponic systems. Low maintenance is one of the most important factor for hobbyist to opt for hydroponic growing.

Greenhouse Hydroponics Systems

Today hydroponic systems are widely used throughout the world by gardeners, researchers, and commercial producers. Most commercial hydroponic vegetables are produced in greenhouses, known as greenhouse hydroponic systems. Greenhouse vegetable production allows more food to be grown in less space. Popular crops produced under greenhouse hydroponic systems include: colored bell pepper, tomato, European cucumber, lettuce, strawberry, herbs, specialty greens, and edible flowers.

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