Show Vegetables Are Grown Using Bathtub Culture Henry Glair Clair a Florida farmer is taking up water water culture cul cul- cul- cul ture farming ture-farming farming on a big scale He lIe has built 12 huge tanks of wood in which he hopes to produce a diversified vegetable crop ordinarily ily grown in the field The tanks lanks are covered with a small wire mesh that holds moss and similar substances as supports for plants which will grow in a nutrIent nutrient nutrient nu nu- nu- nu trient solution Roots of the plants will reach down into the tanks The bottoms of the tanks are covered cov ered covered with cinders as an added support support support sup sup- port for plants According to Glair the theory of what is humorously called bathtub farming is fairly simple A plant gets its growth flavor and fragrance from sunlight and air from the chemicals carried Inthe in inthe inthe the soil The soil merely acts as a support for the plant and provides it with a part of the chemicals that It needs Soil itself may even be detrimental in that It may contain elements that retard Instead of promote promote pro pro- promote mote growth So theoretically speaking if we give a plant mechanical mechanical me me- support heat sunlight air and water containing the proper plant food the plant ought to grow |