FIELD: agriculture. SUBSTANCE: method involves placing planting material in individual bottomless capsules filled with fertile soil; providing bottom part of capsules with annular water headers and round opening for penetration of plant material roots into open ground; dipping capsules into nutrient solution having temperature of 20 C to 1/5-1/10 of capsule depth for forming powerful system of bound sucking roots from ailes buds and appearance of 3-5 stable leaves; forming rows of holes of 0.5-0.6 m diameter and of 0.4-0.5 m depth without preliminary preparing of soil, with hole spacing of at least 1.5 m and row spacing of 2.1-2.8 m; placing plastic vessels into holes; filling vessels with fertile soil; moistening and planting capsules with rooted planting material; when top buds reach length of 0.2-0.5 m, withdrawing capsules by moving them upward along licorice plant vegetative buds; providing caring for plants by irrigating to maintain normal soil humidity within the range of 60-70% in plastic vessel; undercutting side walls of plastic vessels in three years at the end of vegetative period of seedlings; harvesting licorice root mass together with plastic vessels on 7-8th year of plant life. Method allows licorice plantations to be formed on sandy and structureless soils, as well as on agricultural plots with powerful plant cover as buffer zones around industrial enterprises. EFFECT: increased efficiency and simplified method. 6 cl, 6 dwg
