The Walden Effect: Farming, simple living, permaculture, and invention.

Manure application rates for fruit trees

In addition to rivetting information about soil, Robert Kourik's Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape Naturally is chock full of what may be my very favorite thing in life --- well researched lists!  I took copious notes and even made a few spreadsheets, preparing for the hard day when I have to return the book to the library.

Now, I understand that some of you may find lists less tantalizing than I do.  In fact, my father told me that spreadsheets give him shivers, and not the excited ones they give me.  So, I promise you some tempting tidbits along with the lists.  And for you list-lovers --- start salivating now!  These lists are good!
Species
Annual horse manure (lbs.)
Annual horse manure (4 gallon buckets)
Buckets of horse manure for trees less than 5 years old
Apple
90
3.6
0.9 - 1.8
Cherry
70
2.8
0.7 - 1.4
Grape
15
0.6
---
Peach/ nectarine
80
3.2
0.8 - 1.6
Pear
80
3.2
0.8 - 1.6
Plum
80
3.2
0.8 - 1.6





This post is part of our lunchtime series reviewing Robert Kourik's Designing and Maintaining your Edible Landscape Naturally.  Read all of the entries:





Anna Hess's books
Want more in-depth information? Browse through our books.

Or explore more posts by date or by subject.

About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



Want to be notified when new comments are posted on this page? Click on the RSS button after you add a comment to subscribe to the comment feed, or simply check the box beside "email replies to me" while writing your comment.






profile counter myspace



Powered by Branchable Wiki Hosting.

Required disclosures:

As an Amazon Associate, I earn a few pennies every time you buy something using one of my affiliate links. Don't worry, though --- I only recommend products I thoroughly stand behind!

Also, this site has Google ads on it. Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to a website. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to various sites. You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting this site.