Xtreme Gardening harnesses the power of microbial evolution, isolating the most critical members of the soil food web that have repeatedly proven to improve plant performance. Gardeners can experience an increase in crop quality and crop yields, while also improving nutrient and water management.
The MAMMOTH® mission is to provide solutions for a range of challenges that cultivators face. They have polled thousands of growers and have identified:
Pest Prevention:
Pests like spider mites and thrips pose the potential to cause huge losses for cultivators if they are not addressed before they become a problem.
Biostimulant:
Their pest prevention solution, MAMMOTH® Biocontrol Preventative Insecticide (MB-PI), utilizes compounds found in thyme oil found to be highly effective in pest prevention and control. MB-PI is made entirely from plant-derived ingredients which means it leaves zero toxic residue, and is safe for testing.
SD Hydro invites you to join them for a community Succulent Swap & Craft Fair on Saturday, May 11th, 2019 from 10:30AM – 2PM! The event will be located at the San Marcos SD Hydro location.
We will be giving away assorted spring crop seedlings along with a copy of the Indoor Gardening Guide to all customers on March 22nd!
Save the date for our FoxFarm vendor week! We will be doing an Instagram raffle the week before, so be sure to follow us!
Stop by any SD Hydro location to learn more about Royal Gold soil and score some samples!
San Diego:
House & Garden
Hydrodynamics
Hawthorne
Organics Alive
Central Gardening
San Marcos:
Mad Farmer
BioBizz
Blue Lab
Twister
Dome Garden Supply
Lakeside:
Aurrora Innovations
Plant Success (Great White)
Growstone
Revelry
Earth Juice
Sparetime Supply
Chula Vista:
FoxFarm
Eye/Hortilux
Smart Pot
Xtreme Gardening
Oceanside:
Vital Earth
Royal Gold
Rosin Evolution
Spectrum King
*Subject to change
San Diego Hydroponics & Organics is kicking off our annual charity drive event, Season of Giving, on September 10th! We will be collecting clothing, food and toys through December 14th to donate to three outstanding local non-profit organizations – Alpha Project, San Diego Food Bank and Toys for Tots.
Bring in your clothing, food and/or toy donation anytime during our Season of Giving to a SD Hydro location. We will be donating the collected goods in time for families to enjoy them during the holiday season! Please feel free to reach out to marketing@sdhydroponics.com if you have any questions about the donation process.
For the past three years SD Hydro has been asked to install, staff and manage the FarmScraper installation at the San Diego County Fair, located inside the CA Grown building. The purpose of the FarmScraper exhibit is to showcase the future of farming technology and focusing on environmentally friendly gardening practices. We look forward to this opportunity each year and we are always thinking up ways we can improve our systems and educational materials for the next year!
This year, the showcase of the exhibit was our vertical hydroponic system. The curved system was custom built by SD Hydro staff and is capable of growing 55 plants with a fraction of the amount of water used in traditional gardening practices. The vertical system utilizes a specific subset of hydroponics, called aeroponics, that uses mist to deliver water and nutrients to the plants roots. Aeroponic is the most water efficient out of all other hydroponic growing methods.
Our other hydroponic displays included a “floating” raft and Aeroflo system. All of the varieties of lettuce were donated by the Encinitas based commercial hydroponic farm, Go Green Agriculture.
The FarmScraper once again displayed our “living wall” with around 75 hanging planters donated by Smart Pot. The living wall demonstrates how to use available space to efficiently grow food or plants in a “future” scenario where horizontal land could be scarce, especially in urban settings. We’d like to thank Olive Hill Greenhouses for donating the indoor plants that made our living walls lush and colorful. According to Olive Hill Greenhouses, indoor plants also, “…decrease the amount of indoor air pollution by reducing concentrations of formaldehyde and other volatile organic chemicals. Interiors with plants have 50% to 60% fewer airborne microorganisms and 20% less dust than interiors without plants; moreover plants are able to adjust transpiration rates, thereby stabilizing relative humidity to levels ideal for human health and comfort.”
This year we added a weekly seed planting activity as part of our exhibit. It was a huge hit! Everyone loved planting pumpkins in the biodegradable pots donated by Jiffy! We chose to start pumpkin seeds so they would be ready to harvest in late October.
Another fun addition to our exhibit was the 20 ft. interactive mural wall! Kids and grown-ups alike had a great time “leaving their mark” at the fair. Our mural was so popular we went through 4!
Special thanks to all of our sponsors!
Olive Hill Greenhouses
Sunlight Supply
GoGreen Agriculture
Crop King
Smart Pot
Jiffy
General Hydroponics
Mantis Horticulture
House & Garden
Botanicare
Join us for our 2018 Spring Customer Appreciation Sale on Saturday, April 7th!
