<;P>;PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cultivation method and apparatus of tomato nutritious liquid, capable of cultivating tomato nutritious liquid by a medium of half or below of a conventional medium through using a cultivation tray having several D type grooves of about 250 ml for one stump, and greatly decreasing facility cost and reducing daily liquid supplying cost. <;P>;SOLUTION: This cultivation method comprises using D shape cultivation trays 1. The method comprises, for instance, using the tray 1 having a D shape groove 10 which has upper end of about 75 mm diameter semicircular form, a bottom of about 40 mm diameter semicircular form, and about 80 mm depth, and putting about 250 ml medium into each groove 10. A water spray tube 2 is arranged in the longitudinal direction of the tray 1 on the boundary of the grooves 10 in 2 lines of the tray 1. A liquid supplying opening of the water spray tube 2 is positioned in the center of the D shape grooves 10 arranged in 2 lines, and nutritious liquid flows down from D shape openings 100 in 2 lines to each medium. <;P>;COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT