Topic: Poor quality soil and fruit trees /soft fruit

[davholla]

I have a small hill/waste land at the end of my garden.  It is soil covered with rubbish and I was thinking of planting
2 or 3 apple cordons and soft fruit (gooseberry, raspberry and white currants) there.
However I think that the soil has lots of rubble in it.

If I put lots of compost/manure etc in the soil can I still plant them ?
Has anyone done this ?

[Jon Munday]

If you improve as much as possible where you intend to plant then with some TLC then I think you should be ok
Jon

[saddad]

Trees aren't half as demanding as most veg. give them a good start with some bonemeal in the hole and top mulch each year and they will do fine!
 ;D

[jennym]

If you are in London, the clay there is quite good for growing fruit anyway, the rubble shouldn't hurt too apples too much. There may be a problem in the situation you state for the soft fruit - the raspberries tend to like it moister and with plenty of muck, the redcurrants and whitecurrants tend to like a lighter soil thats fertile but well drained, so it may be hard to achieve all that in the same area if it's a small area.