Hydroponic food production : a definitive guidebook for the advanced home gardener and the commercial hydroponic grower Hydroponic Food Production: A Definitive Guidebook for the Advanced Home Gardener and the Commercial Hydroponic Grower Eighth Edition serves as a comprehensive guide to soilless culture (hydroponics) for hobby and commercial growers. Extensively updated from the seventh edition published in 2013 this bestseller is a methods book to show the reader how to set up a hydroponic operation with the options of using any of many hydroponic cultures presently used in the industry to grow vegetable crops. Featuring more than 600 photographs (200 in full color) drawings and tables the book presents detailed information on hydroponic growing systems