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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net>
  • To: mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Fruit trees -- high water table
  • Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 14:20:04 -0500

I don't know whether your proposal would eventually provide suitable soil for
the trees in question, even after the time needed for all that "non-valuable"
lumber to break down. But I do have a couple of other comments:

Do you have the option of continuing your search until you find a place that
meets whatever your other criteria are, and that doesn't need major work done
before you can plant? If so, I'd think that would make more sense.

Whatever you buy: make sure to check out the available water supply, both for
quality and quantity.


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale



On Jan 6, 2017, at 1:51 PM, sc wrote:

> Hi, Ive been working at searching for a property. One I will check out
> next features a soil type which is categorized under the "Rockaway Series".
>
> Rocky, sandy, deep, supposedly well-dained soul, but there is a 14" clay
> fragipan a couple of feet down.
> A seasonally high water table is of special concern; water table during is
> just 18" - 30" under the soil surface during these times.
> Also, the soil is very acidic (pH of 5).
> My focus is on growing native persimmon, paw paw, native plums (P.
> americana, P. munsiniana, P. angustifolia) and apples.
> However, I would also like to grow Cornelian-cherry, sour cherry and
> apricot.
> In dealing with the issue of a high water table, the thought I had was to
> clear 9 acres of upland woods (necessary for the creating space for the
> projected orchard) and then dump all of the non valuable lumber and rock on
> 3 acres of the cleared orchard surface then overtop with a few inches of
> top soil/sand.
> On this 3 acres, i could plant apricot, stone fruits, etc.
> I think persimmon, hickory, chestnut, paw paw would do ok with a seasonally
> high water table just 2' below the surface?
> It might not be the right site. Then there's the issue of pH. I'd Would
> something like this work?
>
> Thank you,Steve NJ
>
>










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