What's New?
NMPro Magazine Highlights
the B&B Tender™
The May 2006 issue of Nursery
Management and Production (NMPro) magazine included the Container Tender
in a feature article about weed control entitled "Weed Examination."
Click
here for a high-resolution PDF of our page in the article. (3.4
MB)
Click
here for a web-version PDF of the article (smaller file size). (368
KB)
New Product for
B&B Stock
We've just released a new
product for the low flow irrigation and weed prevention of B&B trees without
the mess and labor of healing in. Using similar technology to the Container
Tender, the B&B Tender's combined features can help reduce burlap degradation,
reduce labor, and promote overall plant health.
Summer 2005 Nationwide
Field Tests
For the third year in a row,
the Container Tender was tested against a popular spray stake irrigation delivery
system and the results are in!
Coordinator Dr. Dan Struve of the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science
at The Ohio State University summarized it as follows:
***Summary
Similar plant growth can be achieved with much less water than typically used
by nursery growers. However, it must be noted that these results are based upon
the slow delivery rate and even water distribution provided by the Container
Tender products. Therefore, extreme care must be exercised when attempting to
simply reduce the water delivered by high flow rate spray stakes.
Click here for an early version of the results. A complete white paper will soon be available.
The following universities participated:
Dr. Dan Struve
-- Coordinator; Horticulture and Crop Science, The Ohio State
University
James Altland, Phd -- Oregon State University, North Willamette
Reseach and Ext. Center
Bonnie Lee Appleton -- Virginia Tech
Richard Beeson, Phd -- University of Florida, Institute of
Food & Agricultural Sciences, Mid-Florida Research & Education Center
Scott Clark -- Cornell Cooperative Extension
Janet Cole -- Oklahoma State University, College of Agriculture,
Department of Horticulture & Land Architecture
Ed Norum -- Center for Irrigation Technology; California State
University, Fresno
The Container Tender
is New!
The Container Tender was
introduced to the national market in May of 2004. The product was developed
in response to growing environmental problems. In particular, the earth's severe
water shortages due to increasing populations, shifting weather patterns, pollution
in most streams and rivers, and serious over-pumping of underground aquifers.
The Container Tender was initially designed to reduce water usage and in the
process many additional grower and environmental benefits were discovered. The
CTs combine the numerous benefits of a plastic weed barrier with the precision
of low drip irrigation to provide optimum growing conditions to the plant while
minimizing resources. (Follow this link for more on the Features
& Benefits of the Container Tenders.)
NMPro Magazine Features
the Container Tender
The June issue of Nursery
Management and Production (NMPro) magazine featured a sidebar highlighting
the Container Tender as "What's New" in micro irrigation.
Click here for a PDF version of the article.
Summer 2004 Nationwide
Field Tests
As a follow-up to the completed
OSU Field Tests of 2003, an extensive set of field tests were conducted the
Summer of 2004 to further validate the benefits of Container Tenders. It was
coordinated by Dr. Dan Struve of Ohio State. The following universities participated:
Scott Clark, Riverhead Station,
Long Island, Cornell University
Janet Cole, Oklahoma State University
Dr. Dan Struve, Ohio State University of Agriculture and Crop Science
James Altland, Oregon State University
Bonnie Lee Appleton, Virginia Tech
Summary
Based upon four months of testing over one growing season, the irrigation rate
required for trees grown in 15 gallon containers was found to be less than 0.034
liters per hour per mm of caliper. These results show that regardless of temperature,
environmental conditions, and location, trees do not need nearly the amount
of water as has historically been used in nurseries.
Follow this link for the PDF of the complete white paper on the 2003 Field Tests.