PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for cultivating fruit vegetables with limited root areas in multistages, enabling reduction in burden on producers in irrigation maintenance, and also stable production of high-quality fruit vegetables, and to provide its device.SOLUTION: The method for cultivating fruit vegetables with limited root areas in multistages comprises the following processes: vegetating fruit vegetable seedlings P raised in a nursery bed on a cultivation bed C (hereinafter referred to as the culture soil C) charged in a cultivation container 1 diagonally partitioning the inner part of the cultivation container 1 into two sections via a partition board 7 stretching one side of a root-preventing water-supply area 3 making the other end side of the root-preventing water-supply area 3 hang down through a slit 1(a) formed at the side wall of the cultivation container 1 and soaking the other end side in water W in a water tank 2 of an automatic water supply device 8 placed below the cultivation container 1.COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT【課題】生産者の潅水管理の負担を軽減することが可能なばかりでなく、高品質の果菜類を安定して生産することができる果菜類の多段階根域制限栽培方法とその装置を提供する。【解決手段】苗床で育苗された果菜類の苗Pを、栽培用容器1内に充填された栽培床C(以下、培土Cという)に植生する。栽培用容器1の内部を、仕切板7で対角線状に2区画に区画するとともに、防根給水帯3の一旦側を張設する。この防根給水帯3の他端側を、栽培用容器1の側壁に設けられたスリット1aを通って垂下させ、さらに、栽培用容器1の下方に設置された自動給水装置8の水槽2内の水Wに浸漬する。【選択図】 図2