The Trees Get Fed

The Fruit trees are doing well and if they keep going like they have been we will have a bumper crop of peaches, nectarines, cherries, apples, plums and pears.  In order to make sure we do get a good crop the trees needed to be fed.  We have clay soil here and so it needs to be treated to make the soil better.  George has been adding horse manure to the soil in the garden beds to help but you really cannot do that to the trees.  Instead George and Lisa treated the trees with 10-10-10- fertilizer.  The numbers 10-10-10 refers to the composition of a particular mix of fertilizer.  The numbers are the percentage and the component parts of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium in that order.  So 10-10-10 fertilizer contains 10 percent each of these three main nutrients.  This will help feed the trees and hopefully make them grow and produce healthy fruits.  Thanks George and Lisa and great timing in getting it in down just before it started to rain.  Now we wait and see what grows!