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Root Depth

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Posted by cmorsanchez 6a (My Page) on
Fri, Jul 8, 05 at 15:31

I am searching for a list of plants, edible and landscape, that has ROOT DEPTH information per plant. Please point me in the right direction, I've had no luck searching the web. Specifically looking for plants that have maximum root depth of two feet or less. Thanks.

Sincerely,

cmorsanchez

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  • Posted by tapla z5b-6a MI (My Page) on
    Fri, Jul 8, 05 at 21:54

Highly unlikely you'll find such a data base. Root depth depends more on cultural conditions (soil type, rainfall, water table, soil aeration/compaction etc.) than it does on genus/species.

E.g. - I have a sugar maple growing on a hill in sandy loam at my home. I have encountered roots while digging post holes at deeper than 40". I owned wooded recreational property that had more than 7 feet of peat moss as soil. The same species of tree there has roots that do not penetrate the soil more than an inch or so because of saturated conditions/lack of aeration.

Al

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You might try the cranberry industry.
Short root length, 6" or less and, lots of research done over the years.
Why are you asking this?

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Not exactly a data base but some university somewhere had a site with the results of studies on the [? maximum] roots of several food plants. I will try and find it again.

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The link below may be what I was thinking about. Root Development of Vegetable Plants, a book by a couple of people at the University of Nebraska. It appears the whole book may be online.

Here is a link that might be useful: Root Development of Vegetable Plants

  
 

 

 


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