Plant husbandry – Receptacle for growing medium – Irrigator
Patent
1987-12-17
1989-05-02
Kyle, Deborah L.
Plant husbandry
Receptacle for growing medium
Irrigator
47 83, A01G 2500
Patent
active
048255920
ABSTRACT:
A plant supporting arrangement or totem upon which the roots of growing plants can attach and receive nourishment and water in appropriate quantities is provided, which comprises at least one generally cylindrically shaped perforate frame, having at least one open end, and designed to be utilized in a substantially upright position. A suitable barrier is operatively associated with the perforate frame and this barrier serves to prevent soil placed inside the perforate frame from passing through in any quantity. The perforate frame has large enough apertures to permit the roots of one or more plants to reside in selected apertures, that the roots may thrive in the soil contained in the interior of the perforate frame. Several similar perforate frames containing soil can be stacked in an aligned, vertical array, and a suitable arrangement is provided for applying moisture and nutrition in controlled quantities at the upper end of the uppermost perforate frame, so as to encourage the plants growing on the frames to extend lateral root systems into the soil inside said frames. In the event vining plants are growing on the frames, and stems or runners extend across the boundaries between adjacent frames, such runners or stems can be cut at frame juncture locations so that upon separation of the frames, several plants can be established in individual containers.
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Joiner, Ed., Foliage Plant Production, Department of Ornamental Horticulture, Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences, U. of Fla., Prentice-Hall.
Kyle Deborah L.
Renfro Julian C.
Wendtland Richard W.
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