Irrigated Or Non-irrigated Trees

Categories: Soils, Fertilizers and Irrigation

Is there any difference between the same kind of fruit trees grown

without irrigation and with it?



It does not make a particle of difference, if the trees are grown well

and matured well. Overirrigated trees or trees growing on land naturally

moist may be equally bad. Excessively large trees and stunted trees are

both bad; with irrigation you may be more likely to get the first kind;

without it you are more likely to get the latter. There is, however, a

difference between a stunted tree and a wellgrown small tree, and as a

rule medium-sized trees are most desirable than overgrown trees. The

mere fact of irrigation does not make either good trees or bad trees: it

is the man at the ditch.