Pollard Or maybe it will without too much amendment.
https://treejourney.com/best-fruit-trees-for-rocky-soil-and-how-to-plant-them/
Thanks infoman. :)
“Stone Fruit” will grow in rocky(stony) soil. Imagine that.
We have wild cherry, plum, persimmon, service berry trees, raspberry, blackberry, blueberry bushes growing around here.
My original thinking was to plant fruit trees there but I had apples in mind knowing that they grow up North and reading that for further South to plant on Northern slopes. I didn’t know how rocky it was until I burned the leaves off one year. I do have one tiny Northern slope but it’s just enough room for a root cellar. A tree would still get afternoon sun. The one good thing about my Eastern slope is that there’s not a bunch of dead or dying trees like there are on a few spots of my property so maybe I’ll do ok there.
I’ve noticed other spots nearby where a lot of trees have died or are dying. Some areas here have 50% gravel for soil and some have many big rocks from 1-3 foot in diameter. When I dug holes for fence posts, some of what I dug out had the consistency of quikrete as far as rock to sand/dirt ratio. Clay in this case, not sand like quikrete. It’s hard to know which one the trees dislike, gravel or boulders. Might be a matter of abundance of rocks or how the soil drains in a particular spot.
My original plan was to somewhat terrace that area. Not full length on contour terracing but 15-20 foot in diameter spots for each tree in sort of an X pattern or trees offset in every other row. Saw it in a book.
I’m burning nothing for firewood but standing dead trees this year from this 14 acres and there are enough out there for next year’s firewood. I haven’t split any wood this year because all the dead trees I’ve cut this year have been small.
The weather conditions are very locally diverse here. There’s one spot down the road that would be a bad spot to build. It seems like the shape of the land mass and hills funnel the wind into this particular spot. Perfectly healthy 12-15 inch trees get knocked over with a nice full root system or they just get snapped off.
For the other Missourians on this thread;
Home Fruit Production: Peach and Nectarine Culture. https://extension.missouri.edu/publications/g6030