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Show Well-Drained Gravelly Loam Will Help Grapes Grapes do well on a wide range of soils, but they prefer a well-drained gravelly loam. They require good drainage and will suffer far more from wet feet than from lack of a fertile soil. The subsoil should not be so heavy that it will hold the water. For best results it should be light and porous, such as a gravelly loam. The vines will grow on soils too poor for any other crop, but that does not mean that they thrive best under such conditions. It merely means that they do better than other crops. On very poor soils the vines make such poor growth that they cannot produce good crops and require constant fertilization fertili-zation or the yield drops very greatly. |