System and method for plant agriculture
AssigneeJardin Holdings I, LLC
InventorsStephane Gardinier, Lee C. Jones, Matthew McManus
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Abstract
The invention involves a system and method for plant agriculture. The system includes a sheet of barrier material upon which soil is placed. A drip tube is placed in the soil so that the soil can be shaped, and the sheet material is folded over the top of the soil so that the edges of the sheet overlap. A seal, which may be soil, is placed on the overlapping edges of the sheet to hold the sheet material in a closed position. The crop is planted through the sheet material, and growth occurs through the aperture created during planting.
Claims15
A method of plant agriculture comprising:
- Forming an elongated depression (22) by removing a portion of the topsoil (24) from a farm field, said depression (22) being sized to provide a sufficient amount of the topsoil to construct a shaped crop bed for growing an agriculture crop to harvest, the depression being formed shallow and including sidewalls (26), moving said removed topsoil (24) to a side position adjacent said depression (22), laying a piece of sheet material (28) along the length of said depression with a remainder (30) of said sheet material (28) positioned on one side of said depression (22) and a distal edge (32) of said sheet material (28) extending along an opposite side of said depression (22), thereby covering said depression (22), moving said removed topsoil (24) from the side position adjacent said depression (22) onto said sheet material (28) with said distal edge (32) of said sheet material (28) still protruding from said depression (22), while said remainder (30) of said sheet material (28) extends adjacent said depression, positioning a drip tube (34) along the length of said removed topsoil (24), forming said removed topsoil (24) into a desired shape constructing the crop bed, positioning said remainder (30) of said sheet material (28) including a second distal edge across a top surface of said removed and shaped topsoil (24) having the distal edges (32) of said sheet material (28) positioned in an overlapping position with respect to each other, said distal edges (32) secured together to hold said sheet material (28) together in a closed position.
The plant agriculture system (100) formed by the method of any preceding claim.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.