Hollow spade

Ball planting with the hollow spade

The hollow spade , or planting spade , is a planting tool . The spade is characterized unlike other spade by its strongly curved blade with the top long and shorter down bow out. It is mainly used in forestry as well as in horticulture and landscaping for planting woody plants .

use

The hollow spade is mainly used for the planting techniques of hole planting and clamp planting . The hole planting is used to plant plants with already hardened side roots. Here a conical plug of soil is dug with two punctures, after the plant has been inserted, the hole is closed again in layers with the excavated soil. With the clamp planting, the resulting plug is not excavated, but left on the spade leaf. The seedling with the still soft side roots is placed on the opposite wall. The plug is put back into the hole and pressed on.

variants

The hollow spade is a traditional forestry tool that was implemented differently from region to region. In an edition of the Forstliche Blätter from 1865, a distinction is made between cylindrical hollow spades (Prussian), graduated conical hollow spades (Hessian) and completely conical hollow spades (Magdeburg). The forestry consultant and inventor Carl Junack developed the hollow godfather so that today especially the Junack'sche hollow godfather is used.

literature

Gerhard Stinglwagner , Ilse Haseder , Reinhold Erlbeck : Hohlspaten . In: The Kosmos Forest and Forest Lexicon . 6th edition. Franckh Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-440-15219-5 , pp. 421 .
Anton Beil: Forestry cultural tools and devices in illustrations and descriptions . With special consideration of the use of proven tools of agriculture and horticulture in forestry cultural operations. JD Sauerländer's Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1846, p. 152 ff . ( Google Book [accessed December 20, 2019]).

Web links

Mathias Rossa: 1. Hollow spade hole planting | Planting method. In: Pflanzenverfahren.de. Retrieved December 18, 2019(German, instructions for planting with a hollow spade).

Individual evidence

↑ Hole planting / planting with the hollow spade - Tutorial of the Bavarian State Forests. In: YouTube. Bayerische Staatsforsten , April 6, 2017, accessed on December 18, 2019 (German).
↑ Clamp planting / planting with the hollow spade - Tutorial of the Bavarian State Forests. In: YouTube. Bayerische Staatsforsten , April 20, 2017, accessed on December 18, 2019 (German).
↑ Julius Theodor Grunert : On the history of pine planting . In: Julius Theodor Grunert (Hrsg.): Forstliche Blätter . tape 10 . Julius Springer , Berlin 1865, p. 1-30, specifically 26 ( Google Books [accessed December 20, 2019]).

[1] Hole planting / planting with the hollow spade - Tutorial of the Bavarian State Forests. In: YouTube. Bayerische Staatsforsten , April 6, 2017, accessed on December 18, 2019 (German).

[2] Clamp planting / planting with the hollow spade - Tutorial of the Bavarian State Forests. In: YouTube. Bayerische Staatsforsten , April 20, 2017, accessed on December 18, 2019 (German).

[3] Julius Theodor Grunert : On the history of pine planting . In: Julius Theodor Grunert (Hrsg.): Forstliche Blätter . tape 10 . Julius Springer , Berlin 1865, p. 1-30, specifically 26 ( Google Books [accessed December 20, 2019]).