Fruits and Nuts: Fertilizing Apple trees?, 1 by rutholive

rutholive wrote:
Steelhead, Good name for someone who lives on the coast. Haven't been in your area for quite some time. Welcome to DG

My husband and I had 80 acres of apple orchard here in the Okanogan Valley, from early 40s to the 80s. We lived in the house in the orchard until he died in 1994 , just a month short of our 50th wedding anniversary.

Over those years we used different fertilizers, and grew great apples. Sure wish I still had our great Jonathan apple tree, but now I live 9 miles away up on beginnings of Cascade mts, no orchard within a mile or so.

Now I am pretty much organic. I do have 2 peach trees, 2 apricot trees, 2 cherriy trees, and various other fruits. I use Planters 2 and compost and shreds from my prunings and old plant material. We used Planters 2 for a few years when it first became available in the orchard. It is a trace mineral product mined in Colorado. I use about 1/2 ton of it on my I think more than 2 acres of garden. It has just been spread around the garden on nearly everything. Here is one view of my garden, everything new since 1995.