Plant wood

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A plant wood with a T-shaped handle
A plant wood in use

A planting wood , cuttings wood , setting wood , plant wedge , planter or herb stick is a garden tool that is used to drive holes into the ground for planting plants. It originally consisted of a hardwood stick about 30 centimeters long and broadly pointed at the bottom and studded with iron , today versions made of metal or plastic are also available. At the upper end, the plant wood is equipped with a curved or T-shaped handle.

The plant wood also has a cross pin, grooves or a measuring scale to measure the penetration depth of the stick and thus enable it to be inserted evenly. Holes are drilled in the ground with the planting wood, the plants are sunk into the ground as deep as they were previously in the seedbed at the designated planting sites, and lightly pressed against the earth while filling the planting hole.

The plant wood is an old garden tool. In the grammatical-critical dictionary of the High German dialect by Johann Christoph Adelung it is described under the names "planter", "plant wood" and "plant stick" as well as "herb stick" as a "tool to make holes in the young plants which are to be moved to make into the earth with it ”.

Related tools

In addition to the wooden plant wood, there are planting aids made of metal that have an inner cavity (hollow planter) and with which the holes are not drilled into the ground, but rather poked out of the ground with the help of the sharp-edged metal ring. These can be larger in diameter than the wood. A hollow planter is especially recommended if the soil is loamy and the use of wood would compact the earth and thus prevent the plant roots from being absorbed. In agriculture that is not yet mechanized, the digging stick is used, among other things, to create holes for cuttings.

  • Hollow planters, also onion planters

  • Small hollow planter

  • Digging stick

Web links

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supporting documents

  1. ^ Steckholz in Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , 1905.
  2. ↑ "Setzholz, das" , online at Duden
  3. ^ Gardening tools in Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon , 1905.
  4. ↑ a b plant wood in the garden dictionary on plantfreunde.com
  5. ^ Saat in Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , 1905.
  6. ^ Planter, in the grammatical-critical dictionary of the High German dialect by Johann Christoph Adelung , 1793.
  7. ↑ Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (1920), Volume III, pp. 715 ff. [1]