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Hydroponic Lettuce: Cheryl Kaiser and Matt Ernst
Hydroponic Lettuce: Cheryl Kaiser and Matt Ernst
Hydroponic Lettuce
Cheryl Kaiser1 and Matt Ernst2
Introduction
Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) is one of the most
commonly grown hydroponic vegetables.
Hydroponics is a method of growing plants
without soil. Plants may be grown in a nutrient
solution only (liquid culture) or they may be
supported by an inert medium (aggregate culture).
In both systems all of the plants nutritional needs
are supplied through the irrigation water.