A plant irrigation device includes a support that surrounds a plant and provides an opening through which the plant extends. A drip tube is attached to the support and connectable to a water source. The drip tube has a series of spaced apart apertures or water emitters along a length thereof permitting water to exit the drip tube and into the ground surrounding the plant.

An irrigation apparatus to water, contain and support plants. The irrigation apparatus comprising a body portion comprised of a top portion and a bottom portion that join to form a liquid containment vessel that disperses liquid in a defined dispersal pattern through angled openings to at least one plant embedded in growth medium at grade or at elevation in a plant growth container.

A drip emitter has a flexible membrane for regulating a flow of liquid exiting the emitter. The membrane, in a non-stressed or non-flexed state into a regulating chamber of the emitter, includes a non-planar portion.

A framework for diagnosing and predicting a suitability of soil conditions to various agricultural operations is performed in a combined, multi-part approach for simulating relationships between predictive data and observable outcomes. The framework includes analyzing one or more factors relevant to field trafficability, workability, and suitability for agricultural operations due to the effects of freezing and thawing cycles, and developing artificial intelligence systems to learn relationships between datasets to produce improved indications of trafficability, workability, and forecasts of suitability windows for a particular user, user community, farm, farm group, field, or equipment. The framework also includes a real-time feedback mechanism by which a user can validate or correct these indications and forecasts. The framework may further be configured to override one or more of the soil state assessments to ensure that indicators and forecasts are consistent with the recently-provided feedback.

A plant irrigation device includes a support that surrounds a plant and provides an opening through which the plant extends. A drip tube is attached to the support and connectable to a water source. The drip tube has a series of spaced apart apertures or water emitters along a length thereof permitting water to exit the drip tube and into the ground surrounding the plant.

A drop base irrigation device includes a substantially vertical pipeline section, which is adapted to be secured to a truss of an irrigation system by a substantially horizontal supporting rod, and a support having a substantially U-shaped bracket. The bracket includes a pair of side walls and a curved connecting wall extending along a substantially horizontal axis. The side and connecting walls have substantially cylindrical smooth inner surfaces with substantially parallel opposed projections for snap-fit locking engagement of the rod in the bracket. A pair of curved appendages extend from one of the side walls and define a pair of substantially vertical seats with oppositely directed concavities for receiving the substantially vertical pipeline section and locking it by rotation about a substantially horizontal axis. A method of mounting a drop base irrigation device to a supporting rod of an irrigation system.

A modular hydroponic cultivation and transport system for the cultivation and transport of organisms, including but not limited to, various forms of plants and fungi in hydroponic towers, is provided. Further, apparatuses for the cultivation and transport of organisms grown in hydroponic towers, are provided. Methods for the cultivation and transport of organisms using the transport system and apparatuses described herein are also provided herein.

The present invention relates to a tree watering apparatus that can be used to irrigate the base of a tree and to protect the roots thereof. The present invention comprises a semi-circular ring having a bottom half that serves as a root barrier and a top half that serves as a barrier to retain water around a tree while the water percolates to the root system of the tree. A distribution tubing is attached to a water supply and directs water around a tree which is then retained on the ground around the tree by the top half of the present invention while it percolates into the ground. Water that percolates into the ground is then directed to the root system of the tree by the bottom half of the present invention that is buried.

An apparatus, especially adapted for regulating flow of in-line drip irrigation device emitters. The disclosed apparatus converts high liquid flow to a low flow rate as low as 0.02 gallons per hour. The liquid is introduced at a controlled high flow rate, such as by the use of a pressurized fluid supply conduit. The liquid then flows into a number of inlet inflow gates before traversing a pressure responding diaphragm. The closing pressure response of the pressure responding diaphragm, provided primarily by a number of elastomeric o-rings, must be overcome by the pressurized fluid entering through the inlet inflow gates before transmitting regulated fluid flow through an outlet means, wherein said ancillary elastomeric o-ring is a rubber annular component assembled with a tubular rigid insert prior to insertion of drip line extrusion. The present invention provides an apparatus and method for regulating flow of pressure-responding diaphragms of extruded in-line irrigation device emitters'.

A water retention assembly for retaining water around a plant includes a barrier that includes a first ring portion integrated into to a second ring portion. The first ring portion can be inserted into ground having the second ring portion surrounding a plant. The barrier is comprised of a fluid impermeable material to retain water around the plant when the plant is watered. Additionally, the barrier has a feed passage extending therethrough to accommodate a supply pipe of a water drip system. In this way to the water drip system can automatically water the plant surrounded by the second ring portion.