Patent ID: 7188449
Filing Date: 2007-03-13
Classification: A01C

Abstract:
1. A seed tape including successively arranged germinating units made of plane material and being coherent or secured to a carrier strip of at least one layer of biodegradable material, and where each germinating unit intended to be vertically bedded out in the earth or in a growth substrate and in addition to one or more seeds includes a mixture of a carrier, at least one additive and a filler and adjuvants, and where the additive or the additives include water-absorbing materials, such as superabsorbing polymers, characterised in that each germinating unit is provided with at least one narrow zone of water-repellent material across said unit, adjacent or at least up to the upper edge of said unit, where the water-repellent material penetrates the plane material of the germinating unit throughout the entire thickness thereof.