Plant husbandry – Cover – shade – or screen – Adjustable on supporting structure or having means allowing...
Patent
1996-04-22
1998-01-20
Melius, Terry Lee
Plant husbandry
Cover, shade, or screen
Adjustable on supporting structure or having means allowing...
47 25, A01G 1700
Patent
active
057090491
ABSTRACT:
A ground covering enclosure for obscuring undesired vegetation around plants and inanimate objects upstanding from the ground and for promoting the growth of a plant when the object is a plant. The cover includes a water and light pervious, vegetation impervious membrane, preferably a plastic weed cloth, for receiving a plant or other object in circumferential engagement therewith and preferably incorporating an insect barrier; a heat-absorbing wall, in one embodiment an annular cut-out section of a used automobile tire or otherwise made of recycled used-tire rubber, maintained by its inherent weight in engagement with the ground circumferentially of the object or nearly so, and supposing the membrane in relatively closely spaced relation to the ground so that the object, the membrane and the ground form a chamber around the base of the object; and a hose mounted on the inside of the wall and within the chamber for delivering water and/or other liquid-borne nutrients to the ground around a plant. A micro-climate can thus be created in the chamber, similar to a greenhouse or hothouse, close to the ground at the base of the plant and directly over the root system, thereby promoting plant growth while obscuring undesired vegetation while having inherent stability without need for separate anchoring.
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Costello Leo F.
Melius Terry Lee
Novosad Christopher J.
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