GB2488974A - Stackable container for growing potatoes - Google Patents

Stackable container for growing potatoes Download PDF

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GB2488974A
GB2488974A GB1103470.9A GB201103470A GB2488974A GB 2488974 A GB2488974 A GB 2488974A GB 201103470 A GB201103470 A GB 201103470A GB 2488974 A GB2488974 A GB 2488974A
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John Lucius Arthur Cary
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HENLEY POTATO TOWER Co
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01G—HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING
    • A01G9/00—Cultivation in receptacles, forcing-frames or greenhouses; Edging for beds, lawn or the like
    • A01G9/02—Receptacles, e.g. flower-pots or boxes; Glasses for cultivating flowers
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01G—HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING
    • A01G9/00—Cultivation in receptacles, forcing-frames or greenhouses; Edging for beds, lawn or the like
    • A01G9/02—Receptacles, e.g. flower-pots or boxes; Glasses for cultivating flowers
    • A01G9/022—Pots for vertical horticulture
    • A01G9/023—Multi-tiered planters

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A stackable container for growing potatoes comprises a plurality of sections which stack on top of each other. Each section has a plurality of holes or cut-outs at the bottom. These holes allow the stems of some of the potatoes to pass through. The container may have a removable plastic or glass panel placed over the top section so protecting the potato shoots from frost. The sections may be placed on top of each other as the potato grows, increasing the height and depth of the container, allowing compost to be added to maximize the production of potatoes. The sections may be nestable and may be flat-packed.

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Potato Tower
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Many people have limited space in which to garden. The potato tower is a way of maximising the weight of potatoes produced from a single potato seed. The bottom section of the tower is either dug into the ground (so that its top is approximately level with the ground, or placed on a patio floor]. It is then filled with growing medium, which may be any normal growing medium -so soil (preferably sieved] or compost etc and maybe mixed with some appropriate fertiliser.
Enough soild is placed to create a gap of 25 -50mm of the top of the first layer of the tower. One or more seed potatoes (depending on the size of the tower -they may be for 1, 2, 3, 4 or more potatoes] are then planted. A glass, polycarbonate or other translucent material is then placed on top of the first layer (which has a recess so that it fits snugly in place] so that the seed potatoes are now effectively in their own self-contained greenhouse.
A few weeks later, when the shoots have appeared, the glass is removed and the second layer of the tower is added, and the glass is now placed on top of this layer. If there is still a danger of frost, then earth is heaped up round the edges of the first layer so that the holes at the bottom of the second layer are covered, so keeping the potato plant frost free. After a further period, when the potato plant has grow up to the top of the second layer of the tower, the second layer is removed.
Some of the stems of the potato plant are then bent sideways and some are left growing upwards. The second layer of the tower is then replaced carefully and so arranged that some of the stems of the potato plant now pass through the holes at the bottom of the second layer of the tower while others remain within the tower and now reach nearly to the top of this layer. The second layer is now filled with more earth so that the plant is now "earthed up", but some of the stem are now protruding through the tower and are now on the outside of the tower and getting light.
This process is then repeated during the growing season, with extra layers of the tower being added every few weeks as the potato plant grows. And each time some of the stems are carefully arranged so that they pass through the tower so that they are on the outside and are in the light, while those that remain within are earthed up.
At each stage, if desired, the glass of translucent panel may be added to the top layer of the tower to create a mini greenhouse.
But when the weather becomes hot as the summer goes on, it is best to remove the panel leaving the potato plant in the open and doing the final "earthing up" above the top of the last section of the tower.
By the end of the growing season, the tower consists of potato plants which have been heavily earthed up' but which also have a large surface area of leaves exposed to the light -some at the top of the tower and some down the sides of the tower.
The result is an increased yield of potatoes, with each seed potato producing more potatoes than is possible by conventional means.
Fig 1 Shows how a potato tower is constructed layer by layer over the growing season.
Glass or translucent polycarbonate sheet which fits snugly into a recess at the top of each section. (1) Top section of tower (2) Holes (3) at the base of each section allow some of the stems of the plants to pass though to the outside so that they are in the light while other stems remain within the tower so that they are fully earthed up.
Under section of tower (4) -and there may be more sections below. A tower is built up over the growing season with the first layer being either on a patio or slightly buried in the soil.
Fig 2 shows a three layer potato tower at the end of the growing season (there may be more or fewer sections). At this stage of the season the glass or plastic top plate which creates a mini greenhouse has been removed.
Potato tower now full of earth and the top layer heaped up. (1) Potato plants/leaves (2) * Stems and leaves of potato plant protruding through the holes at the bottom of each section of the tower (3) *..*. Bottom section of tower, resting on a patio or partly buried in the soil. (4) I... S...
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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
CN103026917A (en) * 2012-12-27 2013-04-10 华东师范大学 Supporting cover and method for planting shrubs or subshrubs in multi-layer three-dimensional manner
CN104054567A (en) * 2014-06-19 2014-09-24 朱明龙 Darkroom-like potato cultivation box
FR3027484A1 (en) * 2014-10-27 2016-04-29 Jean-Paul Tranchant CONTAINER FOR GROUND CULTIVATION
US9521811B2 (en) 2013-11-08 2016-12-20 Jack Steve Peterson Plant tower

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FR2302024A1 (en) * 1975-02-27 1976-09-24 Jamin Robert Intensive cultivation of potatoes and celeriac - has base plate on wheels mounting truncated pyramid sections with apertures for stems and watering tubes
GB1536455A (en) * 1975-03-06 1978-12-20 Miller R Method of increasing the yield in the cultivation of tuber-producing plants and a device for carrying out the metho
DE3307428A1 (en) * 1983-03-03 1984-09-06 Theodor 7710 Donaueschingen Jürgens Container for planting plants
GB2365308A (en) * 2000-08-08 2002-02-20 Henry John Bessinger Potato growing structure
DE202004015132U1 (en) * 2004-09-29 2004-12-16 Krätzig, Bernhard Potato growing column assembled of individually adjustable number of rings and basic bowl
JP2006296205A (en) * 2005-04-15 2006-11-02 Hideyoshi Yamaguchi Method for culturing vegetable
WO2010024414A1 (en) * 2008-08-30 2010-03-04 有限会社プラス化建・工法研究所 Device for fixing biomass-based solar heat and carbon dioxide gas, and house equipped with same fixing device

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR2302024A1 (en) * 1975-02-27 1976-09-24 Jamin Robert Intensive cultivation of potatoes and celeriac - has base plate on wheels mounting truncated pyramid sections with apertures for stems and watering tubes
GB1536455A (en) * 1975-03-06 1978-12-20 Miller R Method of increasing the yield in the cultivation of tuber-producing plants and a device for carrying out the metho
DE3307428A1 (en) * 1983-03-03 1984-09-06 Theodor 7710 Donaueschingen Jürgens Container for planting plants
GB2365308A (en) * 2000-08-08 2002-02-20 Henry John Bessinger Potato growing structure
DE202004015132U1 (en) * 2004-09-29 2004-12-16 Krätzig, Bernhard Potato growing column assembled of individually adjustable number of rings and basic bowl
JP2006296205A (en) * 2005-04-15 2006-11-02 Hideyoshi Yamaguchi Method for culturing vegetable
WO2010024414A1 (en) * 2008-08-30 2010-03-04 有限会社プラス化建・工法研究所 Device for fixing biomass-based solar heat and carbon dioxide gas, and house equipped with same fixing device

Cited By (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
CN103026917A (en) * 2012-12-27 2013-04-10 华东师范大学 Supporting cover and method for planting shrubs or subshrubs in multi-layer three-dimensional manner
US9521811B2 (en) 2013-11-08 2016-12-20 Jack Steve Peterson Plant tower
CN104054567A (en) * 2014-06-19 2014-09-24 朱明龙 Darkroom-like potato cultivation box
CN104054567B (en) * 2014-06-19 2017-07-14 朱明龙 Class darkroom potato culture box
FR3027484A1 (en) * 2014-10-27 2016-04-29 Jean-Paul Tranchant CONTAINER FOR GROUND CULTIVATION

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