[horatiodreamt]

Hi! I'm curious about the soil fertility in the Yellville area. Is it good for vegetables gardens and fruit orchards, or is it typically very rocky like much of the Ozark region?

Thanks for input.

[Stormcrow73]

Originally Posted by horatiodreamt

Hi! I'm curious about the soil fertility in the Yellville area. Is it good for vegetables gardens and fruit orchards, or is it typically very rocky like much of the Ozark region?

Thanks for input.

Depends on your specific plot of land but typically, Boone, east Carroll and parts of Marion Co. all have more arable land than say Newton, Searcy, and Madison but everywhere in the Ozarks has it's fair share of rocky, unarable cedar breaks.

[OzarkTransplant]

Don't know if you still want to know, but . . . We have had a garden ever since we built here 6 yrs ago. We are on the side of a hill 3 miles south of Yellville. The soil grows vegetables if it does not have too much clay to keep it too wet. Naturally there are rocks which make for funny looking carrots but they can be removed each year when you plant. Warning, they 'grow' back each year though. I can enough from our garden each year to carry us until the next year, so the answer is YES on the vegetables. Our fruit trees have not done well, but then my spouse does not water them as much as he should and the deer stripped them the first year before we fenced them in.

Hope this helps. Oh, you can always call the Conservation Center for help on soil types too, it is right in Yellville proper.

[horatiodreamt]

Originally Posted by OzarkTransplant

Don't know if you still want to know, but . . . We have had a garden ever since we built here 6 yrs ago. We are on the side of a hill 3 miles south of Yellville. The soil grows vegetables if it does not have too much clay to keep it too wet. Naturally there are rocks which make for funny looking carrots but they can be removed each year when you plant. Warning, they 'grow' back each year though. I can enough from our garden each year to carry us until the next year, so the answer is YES on the vegetables. Our fruit trees have not done well, but then my spouse does not water them as much as he should and the deer stripped them the first year before we fenced them in.

Hope this helps. Oh, you can always call the Conservation Center for help on soil types too, it is right in Yellville proper.

Thanks for the info.