Beginners coming to hydroponics growing for the first time can get support and advice through this partnership between an online gardening advice and tips website and a leading Essex-based supplier of equipment.

A Basildon firm is sponsoring gardening advice and support from World Radio Gardening.com to help gardeners get more out of water saving equipment and specialist plant feeds.

Gro-Rite Horticulture is one of the leading suppliers of hydroponic growing equipment through an online store and at their store on the Brunt Mills Industrial Estate.

This year Essex-based World Radio Gardening.com has achieved 30,000 listeners a month to the audio stream and 100,000 viewers online - proving that gardening advice online is becoming a huge hit with the county and wider afield.

Owner of Gro-Rite Horticulture, Danny Dawson said:

"Through using led lighting and the range of specialist plant feeds Gro-Rite Horticulture is able to sell the average gardener will increase their yield and improve their garden no end.

"Gro-Rite Horticulture can advise on rigging and setting up hydroponic equipment which will allow gardeners to turn indoor spaces into productive growing areas at a low cost.

"We're delighted to be supporting World Radio Gardening.com and helping to expand the knowledge and advice available online for gardeners."

Ken Crowther founded World Radio Gardening.com in 2010 and first started giving gardening tips and advice to the public in 1986 when he broadcast continually for BBC Local Radio in Essex.

The internet radio station and YouTube Channel are attracting thousands of listeners and viewers each year and Ken is getting near to entering his four decade of helping gardeners to produce their best garden.

Gardening radio presenter, Ken Crowther said:

"I'm delighted to be bringing gardening tips to a wider audience and to have the support of a local retailer such as Gro-Rite Horticulture will help strengthen the advice we're able to provide.

"Hydroponic growing is a rapidly expanding area and specialist retailers like Gro-Rite Horticulture are extremely well placed to help those gardeners that are interested in getting into indoor growing of plants and using the latest technology.

"I wish Danny and his team the best as they develop the business in Essex."

World Radio Gardening.com features regular contributors from Australia and Canada along with local experts and companies. The website has expanded into tool reviews and product testing.

A live show can be heard once-a-month on local Chelmsford and internet radio station City Sound Radio (https://www.citysound.radio/) and listeners can WhatsApp Ken with their questions.