Patent ID: 8938910
Filing Date: 2015-01-27
Classification: A01C,A01G

Abstract:
1. A method of treatment and seeding or planting of seeds and/or plantable material, comprising in any order: (a) providing a substrate in the form of a tray made from fibrous material having transversal rows of planting positions at well defined intermediate distances in a direction of relative displacement, said transversal rows of planting positions each having a transversal orientation relative to the direction of relative displacement; (b) treating the seeds and/or the plantable material with a treatment substance by depositing the treatment substance in or at the planting positions with the aid of a stationarily arranged treatment depositing device relative to a stationary ground, wherein the treatment substance is liquid; and (c) depositing the seeds and/or the plantable material at the planting positions with the aid of a stationarily arranged seed and/or plantable material depositing device relative to a stationary ground, wherein the seed and/or plantable material depositing device and the treatment depositing device each comprise a row of depositing elements, said row having a transversal orientation relative to the direction of relative displacement, wherein the row of depositing elements of the seed and/or plantable material depositing device and the row of depositing elements of the treatment depositing device are each configured for depositing the seeds and/or plantable material and said treatment substance, respectively, in a corresponding transversal row of planting positions, and the depositing elements of the treatment depositing device and the depositing elements of the seed and/or plantable material depositing device are at a distance from one another in said direction of relative displacement; (d) continuously, essentially without interruptions, displacing the substrate in the direction of relative displacement during said depositing of the seeds and/or plantable material and said depositing of the treatment substance; and (e) controlling the treatment depositing device and the seed and/or plantable material depositing device for depositing at least one specimen of the seeds and/or the plantable material and a desired amount of treatment substance for deposition thereof at the planting positions, on the basis of the relative distance between depositing elements of the treatment depositing device and depositing elements of the seed and/or plantable material depositing device and a speed of movement of the substrate, wherein the planting positions are in the shape of depressions or pits.