Hydroponics is ideal for the hobbyist home-owner or apartment-dweller who doesn't have the time or space for full-time soil gardening. Hydroponics plants grow faster, ripen earlier and give up to ten times the yield of soil-grown plants. These clean and pampered plants produce fruits and vegetables of great nutritive value and superior flavour. Many of them, especially hydroponic tomatoes and cucumbers, are sold in the gourmet sections of supermarket at considerably higher prices than ordinary vegetables. the point here is that you can grow the same vegetables for considerably less money than it costs to buy the pulpy supermarket variety.