雖然小編住在香港這個華洋雜處的地方，而自己及愛人卻偏好西方飲食，亦由於只得倆口子生活，所以大部份時間也是煮西餐，因此香料及香草對我很重要。此外，小編住離島，而在超市購買香草卻比市區的高級超市貴一倍，所以首先的行動就是在家種植最常用香草。
As you know, Hong Kong is a place that accept various cultures, but my beloved one and I mostly cooked Italian food all the time, however, as you know, herbs are very important and widely use. Since I with my beloved one living in outlying island, and the prices of herbs at nearby supermarket doubled as supermarket in town, thus, what we do the most first thing is growing our own herbs.
如果讀者的家有室外地方的話，其實比較建議用泥種植，因泥種可以做到有機種植。 小編以前的小餐廳外有一片空地也是用泥種，可是關閉後就沒有地方，本來把心愛的盆栽搬回家，但因為空氣不流通及陽光不足，加上大量蚊蟲在室內飛舞，最後要轉為無土栽培，不僅可種植香草，也可種植簡單的蔬菜。
I hope you have your own outdoor garden so that you can grow own herbs using soil instead. Unfortunately, nowadays my living place only indoor, I used to have outdoor place in my previous restaurant, although I tried to bring back my herbs to living place, but it’s really lack of fresh air and sunlight, and, so many small flies inside our home. Finally, I changed from soil to soilless cultivation. Nowa, we not only growing herbs and salad vegetables as well.
小編現在種植甜羅勒、鼠尾草，迷迭香及芫茜，其他則用乾香草。
I’m now growing sweet basil, sage, rosemary and cilantro, but other herbs still using dried one.
無土栽培是什麼意思呢？ 其實無土栽培有別於商業所說的水耕。商業水耕是用中央管理系統，把營養液加水倒入中央儲存缸內，利用水管把營養液流到不同的種植箱，水管內的營養液是會不斷流動的，加上控制了室內溫度、濕度及光線，所種出來的蔬果比較一致，可種植的品種比較多。無土裁培比較簡單，佔用空間少，適合家用，可以用專用光管或自然光線，只需把營養液加水後直接倒入栽培箱，當水位低時，加營養液和水就可以了，雖然有氣泵或水泵幫助，但屬於死水，所以在營養液上有很多限制，亦不能種植莖類及果實類的蔬果。
Actually, we can only doing soilless cultivation at home instead of hydroponics, it’s require less space and less techniques. Hydroponics required a central system that consist light, humidity and temperate control, on the other hand hydroponics also required flowing of nutrition water throughout the central nutrition tank and water pipes all the time, therefore, the result of the harvest are not stable and can grow various herbs, vegetables even fruits. For the soilless cultivation just need a box and cover which pull the water into the tank with simple air/water pumping system, some manufacturer also provide lighting system, and can use direct sunlight as well, but the weak point is, you can’t grow root type or fruit type of plants.
小編現時所用的無土栽培系統資料如下，這個系統可疊高，最多為3層，比較慳位，適合香港細小的家居 ：
Currently i’m using this soilless cultivation system, you can stack up to 3 units into one, thus, it’s suitable for such a small apartment in HK :
U-ING GreenFarm 水耕栽培器
溫馨小廚 