Tag Archive for 'fruits' at Guide to Successful Gardening

Tag Archive for 'fruits'

Point of Nutrition

Manuring is an important means of ensuring the healthy growth of fruit plants and of regulating vegetative growth, fruit yield and quality. Each kind of fruit has its own requirements for manures and what is best for plums and black currants will not give the best results for apples, gooseberries and strawberries. This post deals […]

Tags: acid soils, apples, fertilisers, fruit crops, fruit plants, fruit yield and quality, fruits, kinds of fruit, lime, manures, manuring, nitrogen, organic matter, phosphate, plums, potash, soft fruits, strawberries, vegetative growth. General Principles Closed

Garden Site Preparation – Digging

All hardy fruits with the possible exception of figs, need to have the site deeply dug and thoroughly prepared. With shallow soils it is almost impossible to grow good fruit over a number of years unless the subsoil is well broken up. Deep digging should not be carried out close to the roots of any […]

Tags: broken-up bottom of the trench, deep digging, digging, double-digging, fork, fruit bushes, fruits, ground, manure, shovel, soils, subsoil, trench, types of soil. General Principles Closed

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