Show CULTIVATE ALL FRUIT TREES just as ai essential in orchard an for any other crop tenda to conserve moisture it Is just as essential to cultivate fruit trees as any other growing el owing crop sometimes the trees are plowed in the th spring anid and left the rest ot of the year without any further care so BO far as a cultivation Is concerned an exception Is where a cultivated crop li is growing between the trees says D C mooring oring extension horticulturist oklahoma A and M college while trees are young a cultivated row crop may be grown between the trees tree so long as it does not compete with the trees for the same moisture and plant food therefore each year as the trees grow move the crop further away from the trees and whew the trees are well into hearing bearing cease growing a spring crop among the trees at all A soli soil that Is well cultivated will 1 catch much more moisture including rains and snows 2 conserve the tha moisture 3 keep down grass and weeds 4 aerate the soil that 14 la permit of free air circulation which la Is necessary to the life and development of the roots the first cultivation la im the sprint spring should be four or five inches deep with Nihat whatever ever available tool Is at hand be B careful not to skin the trees in case your trees are growing in the yard where here it Is not practical to use horse power in cultivation a spade shovel or hoe may be used where a hand tool Is used loosen the tha soil under the tree and at least a toot foot or two beyond the extent of the limbs the cultivation should begin la iii march or early april and continue until midsummer under normal conditions and during the dry season th cultivation should continue until the last of the summer after the first cultivation which Is the deep one the other should be merely to t establish a soil mulch I 1 |