Word: aridity
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Such advantages have persuaded businesses to try commercial hydroponics. General Mills, for example, is building a plant in De Kalb, Ill., whose first big crops of lettuce and spinach will be on the market this spring. But it is among home gardeners, particularly in urban and arid areas, that soilless growing is rising fastest. Predicts Raymond Bridwell, a Californian whose 1972 book Hydroponic Gardening has sold some 120,000 copies: "Hydroponics has grown ten times in the past 18 months, and it will grow 100 times in the next 18 months...