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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993 14:54:23 -0500 
From: John Robert Leavitt <jl3j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: hydroponics
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suzanne@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Suzanne McCaffrey) says:

>3.  What's a really good book on this subject?

I got _Beginning Hydroponics_ by Richard Nicholls last year and I will be
starting some hydroponic tomatoes shortly.  I found the book very informative.
I also saw a book at Borders the other day called Home Hydroponics and
How to Do It (author forgotten), which also looked good.

> 2. I'm concerned that the liquid bath isn't organic
> and therefore not as healthy as old fashioned dirt grown plants.
Actually, from reading the book, I would think the exact opposite.  Naturally
there is the whoel "organically grown only" fear that some people foster,
but to the plant roots, calcium is calcium, nitrogen is nitrogen, etc.
However, since you don't have nay dirt, most of those pesky bug and fungus
problems go away.

Let me know how it works out.

-John.



