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🌿 Naturally Native Tree & Miscanthus Rhizome Planter
Purpose-Built for Habitat Restoration, Conservation, and Wildlife Management
At Naturally Native, we don’t just build equipment—we build tools that restore balance, improve ecosystems, and create habitat that lasts for generations. Our One-Row Tree and Miscanthus Rhizome Planter was designed by habitat professionals, for habitat professionals.
Whether you're planting bare-root trees for riparian buffers or establishing Miscanthus giganteus for screening, bedding, or erosion control, this planter delivers field-proven results with efficiency, consistency, and rugged reliability.
Advanced Shank and Trenching System
At the heart of the TG Planter is our engineered laminated shank system, built for maximum field durability. Each shank is constructed using laminated steel plates for superior strength and resistance to flex and fatigue, even in rocky or clay-heavy soils. The design includes a replaceable wear shin and bolt-on point, allowing fast field servicing and long-term cost savings. Our aggressive shank point angle is purpose-built to slice through tight soils and penetrate hardpan layers that often stop other planters cold—ensuring effective trenching even in compacted zones. Adjustable trench flaps give the operator the ability to fine-tune trench width and depth for bare-root trees, rhizomes, or plugs, creating an ideal planting environment every time.
Single 24-Inch Leading Coulter
Tough soils? Heavy residue? No problem. The massive 24-inch front coulter slices through hard-packed ground and sod with ease, opening a clean path for the shank to follow—no need for pre-tillage.
Every Naturally Native TG Planter comes equipped with a black heavy-duty vinyl high-back seat, designed with comfort and durability in mind. Built to withstand rugged outdoor conditions, this weather-resistant seat offers adjustable forward-and-back movement, allowing operators to customize their position for maximum comfort and reach while planting. Whether you're placing bare-root trees or Miscanthus rhizomes, the ergonomic design ensures reduced fatigue and better efficiency—making long planting days smoother and more productive for your crew.
The TG Planter features two-position rear closing wheels designed to ensure consistent and effective trench closure across a wide range of soil conditions. These 15-inch wheels are built with steel rims and durable rubber tires, providing the ideal balance of traction, flexibility, and long-term wear. With two adjustable positions, operators can fine-tune the pressure and angle to match soil texture, moisture content, and trench depth. Proper trench closure is critical for moisture retention and root-to-soil contact, especially when planting Miscanthus rhizomes or bare-root trees. This feature plays a vital role in promoting strong establishment, minimizing air gaps, and increasing plant survival—delivering professional-grade results with every pass.
The TG Planter is built with precision tab-and-slot construction, a technique that ensures unmatched structural integrity and alignment throughout the frame. Unlike conventional welded frames that can flex or fatigue over time, our tab construction system locks every component into place—delivering rigid strength and long-term durability under the most demanding field conditions. Combined with its heavy-gauge steel build, the TG Planter is purpose-built to thrive in hard, compacted, or rocky soils. The reinforced frame resists torsion and absorbs shock as the ripper shank penetrates tough ground, making trenching smoother, straighter, and more efficient. This robust design ensures consistent performance year after year, even in high-acreage or high-impact conservation work.
The TG Planter’s seats, seat pans, and rear closing wheels are all mounted to a heavy-duty pivoting H-frame, a design that provides superior flexibility and ground-following capability in uneven or rolling terrain. This integrated frame ensures that the closing wheels maintain consistent contact and alignment with the trench, even as the planter moves across contours and elevation changes. By allowing the rear assembly to float independently while staying synchronized with the shank, the system delivers reliable trench closure regardless of slope or soil variation. This design not only improves planting accuracy and seed-to-soil contact, but also enhances operator comfort and performance throughout the planting pass.
The TG Planter is equipped with adjustable rhizome and tree seedling pans, allowing operators to fine-tune the working height of the planting trays based on the type of material being planted. Whether you're handling bulky Miscanthus rhizomes or slender bare-root seedlings, the pans can be quickly raised or lowered to provide the ideal hand placement and ergonomic angle for efficient, accurate placement. This adjustability not only boosts operator comfort and speed but also ensures consistent plant depth and spacing, which is critical for high survival rates and uniform stand establishment. It’s a thoughtful feature that makes the TG Planter truly versatile across a variety of conservation, reforestation, and habitat-building projects.
Every Naturally Native TG Planter is built using precision tab-and-slot construction, a fabrication method that ensures consistent alignment and structural strength throughout the frame. This interlocking system locks components together before welding, minimizing weld stress and virtually eliminating frame distortion. To take it a step further, each TG Planter is assembled using custom-engineered welding fixtures that guarantee repeatable precision on every unit produced. These fixtures maintain tight tolerances during fabrication, ensuring that critical components like the shank, seat mounts, and trenching assemblies are square, level, and aligned to spec. The result is a planter that performs identically across units—delivering professional-grade consistency, exceptional durability, and reliable operation season after season, even in the most demanding terrain.
The Naturally Native TG Planter is built to excel in no-till applications, eliminating the need for costly or time-consuming pre-tillage. At the front of the unit, a massive 24-inch leading coulter slices cleanly through sod, residue, and compacted topsoil, while the rugged shank follows directly behind, zippering the soil open just enough to create a precise planting trench. Once the tree seedling or rhizome is placed, the rear closing wheels seal the trench firmly, ensuring excellent soil contact while minimizing soil disturbance. The result is a clean, efficient planting pass that leaves the field looking virtually untouched. In fact, it’s often hard to tell where you’ve even planted—making the TG Planter ideal for sensitive habitat zones, prairie restoration, CRP fields, or food plots where maintaining ground cover is critical.
Every Naturally Native TG Planter is proudly built right here in the great state of Ohio, using American-made steel and U.S.-sourced components. We believe in supporting American workers, American suppliers, and American craftsmanship—and it shows in the strength, precision, and longevity of every planter we produce. From frame to finish, each unit is engineered with integrity and assembled by skilled hands who understand the demands of the field. When you invest in a Naturally Native planter, you're not only getting premium equipment built to last, you're also supporting jobs, values, and innovation rooted right here in the USA.
At Naturally Native, we're redefining what it means to plant with purpose. Our team is making bold strides to build the strongest, most innovative, and user-friendly Miscanthus rhizome and bare-root tree planter on the market today. Every detail of the TG Planter is engineered with real-world conservationists, landowners, and habitat professionals in mind—blending rugged durability, smart adjustability, and field-proven efficiency. More than just a piece of equipment, each planter reflects our unwavering commitment to American-made quality, long-term value, and reliable performance. When you buy from Naturally Native, you're not just purchasing a tool—you’re investing in a product that works as hard as you do and a company that believes in building for the future.