is preferably hand disposed onto a carrier line it is contemplated that automated methods of disposing the root material onto the carrier line may be utilized further in some embodiments of the invention the carrier line may be omitted with the root material being contained within the wrapping material without first being disposed onto a carrier the carrier line and attached root material are fed into the winding apparatus as the carrier line and the root material attached to the carrier line are fed through the winding apparatus wrapping material the u201c wrapping twine u201d is wrapped around the carrier line and root material to secure the root material forming the root rope one embodiment of the winding apparatus includes a winding drum having a center axial opening a support frame rotation means a wrapping material source for providing the wrapping material and rotation means for rotating the winding drum the root rope is axially dispensed from the winding apparatus and spooled onto a reel attached to the reeling apparatus with the root rope guided onto the reel full reels are transported to cold storage where the root rope is stored until required for planting when required for planting the rope storage reels are attached to bedshaping equipment modified to accept the rope storage reels the rope is fed into the bed by being spooled off of.