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Is this assumption of acid soil a bad one?
Perhaps I am under a false assumption when I presume an orchard
checkerboarded between pine and apple and fruit trees is excellent because the pines will condition the soil to be more acid just what the fruit trees like. But this week I am faced with the problem of raking up loads and loads of fallen apples that will rot. And fallen apples provide acidity to the soil itself. I had presumed that a checkerboarded orchard with pine and apples would provide acidity from the pine needles but I never figured that the fallen and rotting fruits would also provide acidity to the soil. I suppose the best answer would be for someone who has a fruit orchard with pine trees mixed in to give us an answer as to whether such a mix yields great trees? I can vouch for my pear and apple tree next to 2 blue spruce that the pear is the tallest pear in this region. And the apple next to the blue spruce is the most prolific producer. So I wonder about the contribution to the soil of fallen and rotting apples. Surely this must contribute to increasing acidity as well as the pine & spruce contributions. Perhaps the contribution of rotting fruit is such a minor contribution to acidity that it is not noteworthy? Archimedes Plutonium, whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |
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