Plant husbandry – For potato – method or apparatus
Reexamination Certificate
2007-01-30
2007-01-30
Palo, Francis T. (Department: 3644)
Plant husbandry
For potato, method or apparatus
Reexamination Certificate
active
10409981
ABSTRACT:
An arrangement is provided for improving the yield of potato crops. The arrangement includes a bed, a plurality of pairs of parallel rows of potato plants, and a drip irrigation tape. The bed is provided for multiple rows of potato plants. The plurality of pairs of parallel rows of potato plants in the bed have an inter-row gap between the rows in each pair of rows spaced from one another sufficiently to provide a moisture permeable agronomic soil corridor between the rows in each pair of rows to provide a supply of water to a root zone of each row within each pair of rows of potato plants while maintaining aerated soil within and above the agronomic soil corridor to reduce excessively wet conditions adjacent the crop canopy and a solar light corridor provided between adjacent pairs of rows to provide increased solar energy to the potato plants. The drip irrigation tape has emitters provided intermediate rows within each pair of parallel rows of potato plants below a soil surface of the bed in the agronomic soil corridor. A method is also provided.
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Andersen Brian L.
Andersen Michael
Christensen Gary
Mittelstadt Robert
Andersen Brian L.
Palo Francis T.
Wells St. John P.S.
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