Fruit & Vegetable Gardening » manure http://www.fruit-vegetable-gardening.com Articles, information, tips and resources to help you grow your home fruit & vegetable garden, quickly and easily Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:25:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The soil for growing fruit at home http://www.fruit-vegetable-gardening.com/how-to-grow-fruit/the-soil-for-growing-fruit-at-home.html http://www.fruit-vegetable-gardening.com/how-to-grow-fruit/the-soil-for-growing-fruit-at-home.html#comments Sat, 24 May 2008 23:56:00 +0000 home gardener apple growing tipsfertilizersgravelly loamgrowing fruit at homehow to grow fruitmanuresubsoil http://www.fruit-vegetable-gardening.com/?p=6 In general, almost any average soil will grow good fruit. A gravelly loam, with a gravel subsoil, is the ideal. Do not think from this, however, that all you have to do is buy a few trees from a nursery agent, stick them in the ground and from your negligence reap the rewards that follow only intelligent industry. The soil is but the raw material which work and care alone can transform, through the medium of the growing tree, into the desired result of a cellar well stored each autumn with fruit.

Fruit trees have one big advantage over vegetables–the ground can be prepared for them while they are growing. If the soil will grow a crop of clover it is already in good shape to furnish the trees with food at
once. If not, manure or fertilizers may be applied, and clover or other green crops turned under during the first two or three years of the trees’ growth.

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