Best Used & Rental Textbooks 2020 ✔ Hydroponic Food Production: A Definitive Guidebook for the Advanced Home Gardener and the Commercial Hydroponic Grower, Seventh Edition.
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Howard M. Resh Science & Mathematics The best book on hydroponis out there. This has a huge amount of charts and teaches you everything you need to know and everything you didn't know you needed to learn. The first half of the book is all chemistry and elemental make ups and molecular reactions. The second half has everthing to do with comercial opperations and plant training and scheduling. I could confidently manage a comercial greenhouse after this book.
Best Howard M. Resh Science & Mathematics This book is not for the faint of heart. If you're considering hydroponics at home or on your small farm ( like we are ) , some of the images of big commercial farms will be daunting / inspiring. The book is well thought out and contains a lot of useful, detailed information about commercial hydroponic systems. I also recommend the companion "Hydroponics: Questions and Answers" by the same author.
Howard M. Resh Science & Mathematics I got this book on commercial hydroponics because as a retired engineer, I tend to be disappointed in the lack of technical details in most hobby oriented books. Alas, this book does not translate well at all into smaller scale, home systems, and as a reference, it is very difficult to find specific details without a lot of looking and reading. It was clearly written by an academic (Phd) type, not an engineer, and it is not a great reference for someone planning, designing and building their own small system. For one example, Resh does not support his recommendation for fast drain and fill times and no puddling for gravel culture, with either specific observations or any real data, and his next section on subirrigation of gravel beds clearly shows a drain pipe in gravel that will leave a puddle in the bottom of each bed. Since many systems today such as dutch buckets rely on not fully draining, in order to provide a backup reservoir of sorts in case of top-drip or ebb and flow pump failure, you have to wonder about some of Resh's bold faced assertions. If he supported these with references to published papers, or some test data showing oxygen levels at the roots, or growth comparisons, or related his personal experiences better, I would be a lot more impressed with his book.I would not recommend this as a reference text for smaller scale systems, and I would certainly not recommend it for a hobbyist/home grower.The same author has a book on hobby systems and it may be quite good if he adopted a very different style of writing. I think Keith Roberto's "How to Hydroponics" is OK, and I really very much enjoyed Jame Dekorne's ancient and small "The Hydroponic Hot House" with his crude methods and experiments exposed, warts and all.
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