Planter Explained

Planter or Planters may refer to:

Common meanings

• A flowerpot or box for plants
  • Jardiniere, one such type of pot, mostly indoor types
  • Cachepot, another term for the same
  • Flower box, another type of planter, mostly for outdoors
  • Window box, a planter attached to a windowsill, on the outside
  • Sub-irrigated planter, a planting box where the water is introduced from the bottom
• A person or object engaged in sowing seeds
  • Planter (farm implement), implement towed behind a tractor, used for sowing crops through a field
  • Potato planter, a machine for planting potato tubers and simultaneously applying mineral fertilizers to the soil

History

• A coloniser
  • Plantations of Ireland, 16th and 17th centuries
  • Ancient planter, a colonist receiving one of the first land grants in Virginia
  • New England Planters, settlers who moved to the Canadian maritime provinces which had been left vacant by the Acadian Expulsion
  • Old Planters (Massachusetts), early settlers of Massachusetts
• A farmer
  • Planter class, the collective class of plantation owners in the American antebellum South
• A supervisor of a plantation, particularly in the Far East under the British Empire
• Church planter, a person engaged in creating a new Christian church

Companies

• Planters, the American snack food company best known for its processed nuts and the "Mr. Peanut" mascot
• Planters Bank, which merged with Peoples Bank of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States in 1990 to form Centura Bank
• Planters Inn, hotel in Savannah, Georgia
• Union Planters, a former bank in the United States
• Planters Development Bank or Plantersbank, a former bank in the Philippines

Military

• , a number of ships of the U.S. Navy
• , a number of commercial steam ships
• Mine planter, a mine warfare ship of the early days of World War I

Sports

• Planters Pat Bradley International, a former golf tournament

Baseball

• Clarksdale Planters, a minor league baseball team in Mississippi, United States
• New London Planters, a minor league baseball team in Connecticut, United States

Culture

• Igor Planter, a fictional eco-terrorist in the 2000-2004 manga Black Cat
• The Planter, a 1917 American drama film directed by Thomas N. Heffron and John Ince

Other uses

• Planter, Georgia, a community in the United States
• Planters Hall, a historic place in Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States
• Planter's Punch, a cocktail

See also

• Plantar