JP5386131B2 - planter - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a cultivation system.

Planters may be placed on residential verandas or on the roadside to cultivate flowers and vegetables. Conventionally, plastic planters are generally used for such planters, but plastic planters are not suitable for carrying in terms of weight, soil spillage, etc., and are described in, for example, Patent Document 1 below. Some have proposed a planter comprising a bag formed of a film.
JP-A-10-23834

  In urban areas, the number of high-rise buildings has increased year by year, and attempts to green the roofs and walls of these buildings are attracting attention. However, the roofs and walls of the buildings are windy, and planters, soil, plants, etc. are scattered or fallen. There is a risk of doing so. In contrast, conventional planters sometimes scatter or run out of soil, and are not suitable for greening rooftops and walls.

  This invention is made | formed in view of the said subject, and one of the objectives of this invention is to provide the cultivation system suitable for installing in the rooftop or wall part of a building.

  In order to achieve the above object, the cultivation system according to the present invention includes a bag formed of a root-proof water-permeable sheet and one or a plurality of first opening / closing portions that are provided on a portion other than the grounding surface of the bag and that can be opened and closed. And a second opening / closing part provided on a portion other than the ground contact surface of the bag and capable of opening / closing larger than the first opening / closing part.

  Further, one aspect of the present invention is characterized by including means for opening and closing the first opening / closing portion from both sides.

  In one aspect of the present invention, the second opening / closing portion is provided along an edge of the upper surface of the bag.

  Moreover, in one mode of the present invention, it is characterized by further including a soil filled with the water-absorbing body filled in the bag.

  In one embodiment of the present invention, the bag includes a portion formed in an extending shape.

  In one embodiment of the present invention, the bag is characterized in that a side surface area is formed smaller than a ground surface area.

  Moreover, in one mode of the present invention, it is characterized by further including one or a plurality of third opening / closing parts which are provided on the side surface of the bag and which can be opened and closed.

  Moreover, one mode of the present invention is characterized by further including one or a plurality of handles provided on the bag.

  According to one embodiment of the present invention, since the cultivation system is formed in a bag shape, it is excellent in portability and can be easily installed on the roof or wall of a building. Moreover, since the 1st opening-and-closing part can be used as a cultivation hole of a plant and the 2nd opening-and-closing part can be used as a filling port of the cultivation medium to a cultivation system, since these were provided so that opening and closing was possible, scattering of soil from a cultivation system, The outflow can be prevented. Furthermore, by using a root-proof water-permeable sheet for the bags that make up the cultivation system, natural water supply such as rainwater can be used, and the roots of crops do not jump out of the cultivation system, requiring root-prevention measures on the roof top surface. do not do. Thereby, the cultivation system suitable for installing on the rooftop or wall part of a building is realizable.

  According to one aspect of the present invention, even when the first opening / closing part is used as a planting hole, the opening of the first opening / closing part can be made sufficiently small.

  According to one aspect of the present invention, the upper surface can be greatly opened, and filling of the culture soil is facilitated.

  According to one aspect of the present invention, water that has entered the cultivation system through the water-permeable sheet can be stored in the cultivation soil.

  According to one aspect of the present invention, even when the plant planted in the cultivation system grows or the contents of the bag of the cultivation system expand due to the water absorption body absorbing moisture, The load can be reduced.

  According to one embodiment of the present invention, stability against wind can be improved.

  According to one aspect of the present invention, a harvested product in a cultivation system can be easily taken out.

  According to one embodiment of the present invention, the portability of the cultivation system is improved. Moreover, if a plurality of cultivation systems are connected by a handle, the cultivation system can be fixed.

  DESCRIPTION OF EXEMPLARY EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, preferred embodiments (hereinafter referred to as embodiments) for carrying out the invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  In FIG. 1, the perspective view of the cultivation system 10 which concerns on this embodiment is shown. The cultivation system 10 is configured by forming a root-proof water-permeable sheet into a bag shape. The cultivation system 10 is filled with cultivated soil, and is used to plant and grow cultivated plants such as root vegetables such as sweet potatoes in the filled cultivated soil.

  The root-proof water-permeable sheet is a sheet formed using a material having water permeability and air permeability such as a polyester long fiber nonwoven fabric.

  As shown in FIG. 1, a bag 12 constituting the cultivation system 10 is provided with a cultivation soil filling opening / closing part 14, a cultivation hole opening / closing part 16, a harvest port opening / closing part 18, and a handle part 20. The cultivation hole opening / closing portion 16 corresponds to the first opening / closing portion, the cultivation soil filling opening / closing portion 14 corresponds to the second opening / closing portion, and the harvest port opening / closing portion 18 corresponds to the third opening / closing portion.

  The bag 12 functions as a container for storing the soil. The cultivation system 10 of this embodiment is formed in the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped, and the area of the grounding surface is made larger than the area of the side surface to ensure stability to the wind. As described above, the bag 12 is formed using a root-proof permeable sheet. However, when a small stretchable material is used for the root-proof permeable sheet, the bag 12 is used when the cultivated product has grown. It is good also as providing the structure which extends.

  FIG. 2 shows an example of the extending structure provided on the bag 12. In the illustrated example, a bellows portion 24 is provided on a part of the side surface 23 of the bag 12 on the upper surface 22 side, and when the contents of the bag 12 swell, the bellows portion 24 expands to expand the bag. Suppose that 12 swells in the vertical direction. In the initial state, the culture medium may be filled to the extent that the bellows portion 24 is folded so that the bellows portion 24 of the cultivation system 10 does not extend.

  The cultivation soil filling opening / closing part 14 is an opening / closing part provided on a portion other than the grounding surface of the bag 12 and is an opening / closing part that opens / closes larger than the cultivation hole opening / closing part 16 described later. The soil filling filling opening / closing part 14 is mainly used for filling soil cultivation. In this embodiment, the soil filling filling opening / closing part 14 is an upper surface 22 facing the grounding surface of the bag 12, that is, a ceiling surface opposite to the grounding surface. It is provided along the edge which comprises.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the soil filling opening / closing part 14 may be realized by a mechanism in which a fastener line is provided along two sides of the upper surface 22 and the line is opened and closed by a fastener slider. FIG. 3 shows a diagram of the open state of the soil filling opening / closing part 14. As described above, when the two sides of the upper surface 22 can be opened and closed, the upper surface 22 is in a largely open state, so that it is easy to fill the culture medium. After the bag 12 is filled with the soil, the soil filling opening / closing portion 14 can be closed so that the soil does not escape from the bag 12 from the upper surface 22.

  The cultivation hole opening / closing section 16 is one or more opening / closing sections provided on the upper surface 22 of the bag 12 and is mainly used as a cultivation hole for taking out cultivated plants from the cultivation system 10 as shown in FIG. is there. In this embodiment, it is supposed that three opening / closing parts 16 for cultivation holes are provided on the upper surface 22, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the arrangement interval of the opening / closing parts 16 for cultivation holes is an interval suitable for the plant intended for cultivation. As good as

  FIGS. 4B and 4C show an example of the structure of the cultivation hole opening / closing part 16. As shown in FIGS. 4B and 4C, the cultivation hole opening / closing portion 16 may use a fastener as an opening / closing mechanism similarly to the cultivation soil filling opening / closing portion 14, and the fastener slider with respect to the fastener line. Two 30 are provided. With this configuration, as shown in FIG. 4 (B), when planting a plant, the sliders are brought close to both ends to open the cultivation hole opening / closing part 16 to facilitate the operation, and after planting, As shown in FIG. 4C, the opening of the cultivation hole opening / closing part 16 is made sufficiently small by bringing each slider to the plant stem part 32. Thus, since the opening part of the bag 12 of the cultivation system 10 is made sufficiently small, the cultivation soil is not dissipated from the cultivation system 10 even under strong winds.

  The harvest port opening / closing part 18 is one or a plurality of opening / closing parts provided on the side surface of the bag 12 and is an opening / closing part used when taking out the material from the soil. For example, when root vegetables (such as sweet potatoes) are planted in the cultivation system 10, the opening / closing unit 18 for the harvest opening may be used as a harvest opening when taking out the harvest of the root vegetables from the cultivation system 10.

  FIG. 5 shows an example of the arrangement of the harvest opening opening / closing section 18. The harvest port opening / closing part 18 may also use a fastener for the opening / closing mechanism, similar to the opening / closing part described above. Then, as shown in FIG. 5, the harvest port opening / closing section 18 may be provided on the side surface at a position close to each cultivation hole opening / closing section 16 based on the position of the cultivation hole opening / closing section 16. In this way, the harvest port opening / closing section 18 can be provided near the harvested product, so that harvesting is facilitated.

  The handle part 20 is provided at each vertex of the upper surface 22 of the bag 12, and functions as a handle when carrying the cultivation system 10 according to the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 1, the handle may be formed in the shape of a ring, or may have another shape. Moreover, you may use the handle part 20 provided in the bag 12 as a connection part for mutually tying each cultivation system 10 at the time of arranging the cultivation system 10 in multiple numbers. The latter application will be described later.

  Next, the soil that fills the bag 12 will be described. FIG. 6 shows a cross-sectional view taken along the reference line xx after the bag 12 is filled with culture soil.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the soil 40 according to the present embodiment includes a soil 42, a water absorber 44, a fertilizer 46, and a slow-acting fertilizer 48. The cultivation system 10 which concerns on this embodiment is arrange | positioned on the rooftop of a building, assumes the use in the environment which supplies a water | moisture content to a cultivated plant with rainwater, and uses the sheet | seat with water permeability for the bag 12. FIG. The rainwater that has permeated through the bag 12 and soaked into the cultivation soil 40 is stored in the cultivation soil 40 by the water absorbent 44.

  The soil 42 is an appropriate culture soil depending on the plant to be cultivated. For example, the soil 42 may be generated by mixing red jade earth, vermiculite, peat moss, and the like at a predetermined ratio.

  The water-absorbing body 44 may be cultivated by natural water supply such as rain water using a water-absorbing resin having high water retention and sustained release properties such as a polymer water-absorbing polymer.

  For the fertilizer 46, ammonium sulfate, calcined heavy phosphorus, potassium sulfate or the like may be used, and for the slow-acting fertilizer 48, a micro long fertilizer may be used. Thus, the burden of cultivation management is reduced by previously mixing fertilizer 46, slow-release fertilizer 48, etc. with the cultivation soil 40. FIG.

  In the cultivation, the blending ratio of each component is determined in advance according to the type of plant to be cultivated, and the cultivation soil blended based on the blending ratio may be filled in the bag 12 in advance. Even when cultivating a plurality of types of plants, it is not necessary to consider the proportion of cultivated soil suitable for each type of plant by using a bag corresponding to each type.

  FIG. 7 shows the state of the cultivation system 10 according to the growth process of root vegetables when root vegetables are cultivated by the cultivation system 10 according to the present embodiment. 7A, 7B, 7C, and 7D are arranged in time series. Fig. 7 (A) shows the state of root vegetable seedlings planted, Fig. 7 (B) shows the state of root vegetables starting to grow, and Fig. 7 (C) shows the state of root vegetables reaching the harvest stage. FIG. 7D shows a state where the root vegetables are harvested. As shown in FIGS. 7A to 7C, as the root of the root vegetable in the soil of the cultivation system 10 is enlarged, the stretched portion (the bellows portion 24) of the bag 12 is stretched and the bag 12 is expanded. . Then, at the time of harvesting, the harvest port opening / closing part 18 is opened, and the harvest of root vegetables is excavated therefrom.

  Moreover, although the cultivation system 10 which concerns on this embodiment may be arrange | positioned alone, you may connect and arrange | position several cultivation systems 10. FIG. FIG. 8 shows an example when a plurality of cultivation systems 10 are connected and arranged. In the example shown by FIG. 8, it is supposed that the handle part 20 of each cultivation system 10 is connected using the connection parts 50, such as a rope and a string. By doing so, the cultivation system 10 is connected to each other to increase the stability of the cultivation system 10 to the wind, and the cultivation system 10 is prevented from falling from the roof even in an environment where a strong wind blows like the rooftop. To do.

  According to the cultivation system 10 which concerns on this embodiment demonstrated above, since the root-proof water-permeable sheet | seat was used for the bag 12, the root of a crop does not jump out from the cultivation system 10, and the root prevention countermeasure of a roof surface is reduced. Moreover, since the root-proof water-permeable sheet | seat which has water permeability was used for the bag 12, rainwater is absorbed and discharged | emitted efficiently. Moreover, since the opening part provided in the bag 12 used the mechanism which can be opened and closed, scattering of cultivation soil by rain, a wind, etc. is prevented. Moreover, since rainwater is retained and used by the polymer water-absorbing polymer mixed in the cultivation soil, it can be cultivated by natural water supply. Moreover, since the cultivation system 10 was formed in the flexible and small bag shape, it can be installed in a small empty space. Moreover, when the cultivation system 10 is filled with culture soil mixed in advance including necessary nutrients, the burden of cultivation management is reduced. And since it is stable to wind, the risk of strong winds and falling, which becomes a problem when installed on large-scale rooftop greening or wall greening of buildings, etc., is reduced.

  In addition, this invention is not limited to said embodiment, For example, although it was supposed that the cultivation system 10 was directly installed in the roof surface of a building in said embodiment, as shown in FIG. You may provide the mechanism which protects.

  In the example of the cultivation system 10 shown in FIG. 9, the cultivation system 10 is installed on the tray 60 to prevent the temperature of the roof surface 62 from being directly transmitted to the cultivation system 10. Further, a plurality of support columns 64 are provided on the tray 60, and a greenhouse is configured by covering the support columns 64 with a greenhouse cover 66. Further, the cultivation system 10 is provided with a hook 68 for fixation, and the hook 68 may be hooked on the roof surface 62 and fixed. Moreover, it is good also as making it connect with the other cultivation system 10 by the connection part 70 of the cultivation system 10. FIG.

  Moreover, in said embodiment, although the fastener was used for each opening-and-closing part as an opening-and-closing mechanism, you may use not only this but another opening-and-closing mechanism, and the shape of the bag 12 of the cultivation system 10 is not restricted to a rectangular parallelepiped. Alternatively, other shapes such as a polygonal column and a cylindrical shape may be used. In addition, the present invention can be applied to the cultivation of various plants other than root vegetables.

It is a perspective view of the cultivation system concerning this embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the structure which expands a bag. It is a figure of the open state of the opening-and-closing part for culture filling. It is the figure which showed an example of the structure of the opening / closing part for cultivation holes. It is the figure which showed an example of arrangement | positioning of the opening-and-closing part for harvest ports. It is sectional drawing in xx after filling a culture medium in a bag. It is the figure which showed the shape of the cultivation system according to the growth process of the cultivation plant. An example of arrangement | positioning at the time of arranging multiple cultivation systems is shown. It is an example of a structure of a cultivation system.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Cultivation system, 12 bags, 14 Opening and closing part for filling soil, 16 Opening and closing part for cultivation hole, 18 Opening and closing part for harvest opening, 20 Handle part, 22 Top face, 23 Side face, 24 Bellows part, 30 Slider, 32 Plant stem part 40 soil, 42 soil, 44 water absorber, 46 fertilizer, 48 slow-release fertilizer, 50 connection part, 60 tray, 62 roof, 64 strut, 66 greenhouse cover, 68 hook, 70 connection part.

Claims (5)

A bag formed of a root-proof permeable sheet;
Provided in the upper surface of the bag, the first opening and closing part capable of opening and closing one or more,
A second opening / closing portion provided along an edge of the upper surface of the bag, which can be opened / closed larger than the first opening / closing portion;
One or a plurality of third opening / closing portions provided on the side surface of the bag and capable of opening and closing;
The cultivation container characterized by providing the bellows part extended between the said 3rd opening-and-closing part in the side surface of the said bag, and the upper surface of the said bag . The cultivation container according to claim 1, comprising means for opening and closing the first opening and closing part from both sides. The cultivation container according to claim 1 or 2 , further comprising a soil containing a water absorbent filled in the bag. The cultivation container according to any one of claims 1 to 3 , wherein the bag is formed such that a side surface area is smaller than a ground contact surface area. The cultivation container according to any one of claims 1 to 4 , further comprising one or a plurality of handles provided at each corner of the upper surface of the bag.

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