The Missouri Gravel Bed is a method, developed at the University of Missouri, that allows trees and shrubs to be planted any time during the summer with a survival rate greater than those expected for B&B and container-grown plants of comparable size.Over the past 15 years, at least 50 species of trees and shrubs have been successfully field planted in mid- to late summer from gravel beds in Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Idaho, and Ohio. In 2001, a cooperative project was begun in which a gravel bed was constructed to hold bare-root shrubs for summer planting on the University of Missouri, Columbia (MU) Campus. Landscape Services constructed the bed and purchased the plants and MU students in Greenhouse Production and Home Horticulture classes placed the plants in the bed and managed the system until the end of spring semester. Student employees managed the bed over the summer. Plants were removed from the bed in August and planted by Landscape Services personnel.
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