How does one start a perennial fruit crop? By planting it into the ground. The soil. That is where it all starts. Sometimes we take soil for granted. But, as many fruit growers have discovered the hard way, not all soil is created equal. And as we approach the end of the first decade of this century, we do so with new tools to look at soils and a growing desire to maintain a quality production site so that soil quality becomes part of the equation. Although cover crops are far from a new issue in fruit and vine systems, […]