METHOD FOR GROWING AND REPRODUCING CHICKWEED (CERASTIUM AVRENCE L.) USING MINI-BRIQUETTES ON LOAMY SOILS IN DRY CONDITIONS OF THE SOUTH OF CENTRAL SIBERIA Russian patent published in 2023 - IPC A01G20/00 A01G22/60 A01G7/00 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: method includes cutting mini-briquettes from chickweed in the stock department of the nursery, where field area covered with chickweed is rolled over. A layer 3-5 cm thick is cut from the turf with a plant digger. The turf is cut into mini-briquettes, planting is carried out at the end of March or on April 6-10 on frozen, damp, slightly thawed to a depth of 3-5 cm soil, clean from weeds, with mini-briquettes with a width of 3-5 cm, a length of 5-7 cm, a thickness of 3-5 cm using modernized MLU-1A forest planter with disks removed from the planter. A coulter is used to make 3-5 cm depressions in slightly thawed soil. A mini-briquette is fed into the planting depression formed with the coulter, the soil is compacted around the briquette using rollers, with the distance between the briquettes in one row of 40-50 cm, 240-250 cm between the rows.

EFFECT: method provides a reduction in energy consumption for performance of work, the survival rate of planting material and subsequent active vegetative reproduction of chickweed.

1 cl, 1 dwg