...but I don't know where to put it. I'm learning so many new words so fast that it is becoming necessary to try to make a deeper sense out of them.
The words are about growing plants in water. Not just aquatic plants, but almost any plant can be grown in water. Here in the United States, the art and science of dumping out the dirt and propagating plants in a liquid nutrient solution was more or less perfected by William Gericke in 1929. But Francis Bacon published findings on the subject in 1626, as did John Woodward in 1699. A couple of centuries later work on perfecting nutrient solutions for growing in a soil-free manner was completed in Germany.
But if you type the keywords "inventor of hydroponics" into an online search engine, you are likely to come up with gibberish.
Much of the world's food products are grown without dirt and bugs, but for some reason, this seems not to be widely known even by most of the avid gardeners hereabouts. Why all the secrecy?
Better yet, what can I do to find and then "out" more information on this subject?
Here is a start: GLOSSARY
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