GB1472192A - Planting growing and transplanting of plants - Google Patents

Abstract

1472192 Growing and transplanting trees J W G YOUNG 22 April 1975 [17 April 1974] 16835/74 Heading A1E A tree root ball container comprises a steel wire basket having a larger aperture in its base 10 offset from the centre, to allow a stake 21 to be driven into the underlying ground, and a removable plastics membrane 25, impermeable to roots, on the exterior of the basket's side wall 12, the basket being used for initial growth of the tree and to facilitate transplantation by reducing disturbance of the root ball. A basket 24 wrapped with a plastics membrane 25 is inserted into a hole 23, a stake 21 is driven in, planting medium 19 placed in the basket and a small tree 18 is planted and tied at 20. Roots may grow downwards, but sideways growth is limited by the membrane 25 and instead, roots entwine with the basket. Some time later, the tree is transplanted by removing the basket from the ground, the membrane 25 removed and the tree replanted elsewhere, still in its basket which will rust away, but the roots can now grow sideways. The container may alternatively comprise a perforated plastics, or sheet iron, tub and may be square, hexagonal &c in plan.