Nut planter tool and methods of use
View Patent ↗Disclosed herein is a nut planter tool comprising an elongate drop tube fixed to a dig tube. The dig tube is spaced from the drop tube with each having generally parallel central axes. A plunger assembly comprises a plunger at an inferior end that translates within the dig tube. The tool ergonomically removes a soil core that is larger than the diameter of the tree nut, delivers the nut from an ergonomic height to a proper depth for germination; and replaces the soil core, covering the tree nut. The device is utilized standing upright thus eliminating the physical labor of bending over and reducing typical nut planting time.
1. A method of implanting a nut using a tree nut planter tool comprising the steps of:
obtaining a tree nut planter tool comprising an elongate drop tube having a central axis and having an upper port and a lower port and whereas the drop tube is fixed to a laterally spaced dig tube also having a central axis whereby the central axis of the drop tube and dig tube are parallel and wherein the lower port of the drop tube is spaced superior to a bottom face of the dig tube and whereby one or more control handles extend laterally from a superior end of the drop tube;
grasping the tree nut planter tool and orientating such that the drop tube is vertical and resting the bottom face of the dig tube against the ground;
driving the tree nut planter downward into the ground whereby the bottom face of the dig tube breaches the ground with a consequent soil core entering and captured within a dig port of a dig cannula at the inferior end of the dig tube and until a lower face of the drop tube contacts the ground;
lifting the tree nut planter upward with consequent removal of a soil core captured within the dig cannula from the ground whereby a soil core hole is created in the ground;
moving the tree nut planter tool such that the central axis of the drop tube and central axis of the soil core hole are aligned;
resting a nut at the bottom of the soil core hole by placing and releasing a nut in the upper port;
moving the tree nut planter tool to realign the central axis of the dig tube with the central axis of the soil core hole; and
translating a plunger located in the dig cannula to approach the bottom face of the dig tube thereby releasing the soil core back into the soil core hole.