Black Truffle Blog: Growing, Farming and Orchards
The black truffle blog collects what a grower in Spain says about cultivating Tuber melanosporum, with his own numbers and none of the folklore.
Three articles cover the questions that come up before and after planting: how black truffle is grown, what a plantation costs and yields, and how an orchard is looked after year by year.
Each one ends where the practical work begins, at the inoculated tree.
Articles on growing black truffle
How to Grow Black Truffles
The tree, the density, when to plant, how to water and what a hectare yields over thirty years.
Black Truffle Farming: What a Plantation Costs and Yields
Ten hectares in numbers, the three yield scenarios and who is trained to do this.
Black Truffle Orchard: Planting, Pruning and Pests
Pruning in spring, weeding in autumn, specialist irrigation and what a leaf gall does underground.
From reading to planting
When the questions are answered, the next page is the one about truffle trees: where the plant comes from, how a nursery proves the inoculation and how an order is sized.
Start with truffle trees