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Gardening in Waterworld | Home Tech | TechNewsWorld: "How to explain the rising tide of interest in hydroponics and other water-based gardening techniques? Hydroponics and aquaponics produce more food in less space than traditional gardening, and they're catching on with mainstream gardeners. Vegetables taste just as good, and there's also less environmental impact.

One day, gardener Robert Mainville saw a show about hydroponics on PBS, and it fascinated him. Soon he had set up a hydroponic garden in his own yard -- forsaking his old soil plots -- and within months was harvesting tomatoes, cabbage, kale, and turnips.


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"It works fantastically," Mainville, the owner of Cape Fear Hydrogardens in Wilmington, N.C., told TechNewsWorld. "The production you can get is amazing. All winter long I eat from my garden.""

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