If at all possible, contact a local agriculture university or get advice from someone familiar with the area and its soil. They should be able to offer better advice than I can half a world away.

Your pH is high. Do not add lime or wood ash. Apply sulphur and if using synthetic fertilizers use an acidifying fertilizer like ammonium sulfate.

Phosphorus (P) is on the high side. Do not add phosphorus (manure is high in phosphorus)

Potassium (K) is high. Do not add potassium.

Organic Matter (OM) is low. You want to raise OM to about 5%.

You need sulphur and organic matter. There are many ways to increase OM. You can mix in finished compost. A cover crop of annual beans that you cut back every year as mulch would definitely increase OM. Just mulching with whatever is locally available will help.

And of course you will need nitrogen like everyone.

I'm certain others more knowledgeable than I will chime in though.

This post was edited by nil13 on Fri, Nov 14, 14 at 2:06

Thanks a lot for your detailed advise and the valuable information, I am amateur gardener and just like to see what others point of view, I have approached the local authority in Jordan and more or less they gave me same information except that I should use a balance fertilizer like 20-20-20 on which I was not convinced , as I can see that P and K are high , but they said that the plant will take what ever needed, but I think it is waste of money, I planning to add peat moss and as you mentioned an acidifying fertilizer.thanks for you advise.

I don't know why, but the laboratories always give a balanced fertilizer recommendation even when some nutrients are high.

I don't have much to add to the advice given above. I'm interested in what kind of fruit you are growing. We don't often hear from your part of the world - at least, not gardeners. :-]

We have a Mediterranean climate in general we can grow all stone fruits and pip fruits, grapes, figs, Olives and most what grows in the Mediterranean, plus we have another climate (dead sea area which is 450 meter below the sea level ) where we can grow dates, banana, oranges, Guava etc, in winter most of our tomato, cucumber and other summer vegetables comes from this place (during winter)because it is mild during the winter months.

In Amman usually it snows once or twice a year, cold in winter and hot in summer with average temperature of 32 degree centigrade during July and August.

The P is not high, just right. The rest is fine too. Strong trees need some organic matter, if you can access any sort of mulch add it, at this point the trees are in the ground so you can't add anything to the hole. IIRC, fungi are rare but not absent in Jordan.

It's on the high side of just right. I guess i wasn't clear.

The soil pH is a bit high at 7.6 and organic matter is really low at 1.83 percent, and I would say that the Phosphorus (P) and Potash (K) are out of balance.. Adding more organic matter will help, but what is available in Jordan is something I do not know about other then household waste that can be recycled.. Animal manures, cover crops, and any other available vegetative waste is needed in that soil. Perhaps these simple soil tests may be of some help.
1) Soil test for organic matter. From that soil sample put enough of the rest to make a 4 inch level in a clear 1 quart jar, with a tight fitting lid. Fill that jar with water and replace the lid, tightly. Shake the jar vigorously and then let it stand for 24 hours. Your soil will settle out according to soil particle size and weight. For example, a good loam will have about 1-3/4 inch (about 45%) of sand on the bottom. about 1 inch (about 25%) of silt next, about 1 inch (25%) of clay above that, and about 1/4 inch (about 5%) of organic matter on the top.

2) Drainage. Dig a hole 1 foot square and 1 foot deep and fill that with water. After that water drains away refill the hole with more water and time how long it takes that to drain away. Anything less than 2 hours and your soil drainsâ too quickly and needs more organic matter to slow that drainage down. Anything over 6 hours and the soil drains too slowly and needs lots of organic matter to speed it up.

3) Tilth. Take a handful of your slightly damp soil and squeeze it tightly. When the pressure is released the soil should hold together in that clump, but when poked with a finger that clump should fall apart.

4) Smell. What does your soil smell like? A pleasant, rich earthy odor? Putrid, offensive, repugnant odor? The more organic matter in your soil the more active the soil bacteria will be and the nicer your soil will smell, to9 a point. Too much organic matter can be bad as well.

5) Life. How many earthworms per shovel full were there? 5 or more indicates a pretty healthy soil. Fewer than 5, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service, indicates a soil that is not healthy.

This post was edited by kimmsr on Tue, Nov 18, 14 at 6:08

I am growing a wide verities of Fruit trees , Apples, Pears, Apricot, Cherry nectarines, peaches, plums, figs, pistachio, oranges, Loquat, grapes and some local berries, I have not notice any slow growth, but I noticed some trees overgrown, specially the apples and plums, also I didn't notice any singes of obvious fertilizer deficiency, the trees are around three years old and have been in the ground for one year, some of them carried fruit last summer, the Loquat in flower, what I noticed end of this summer that the earth have cleft due to dryness and I think lack of organics, the only tree which I was not happy is the cherry tree, but I was away from home during this time and I could't find why this happened (picture attached), this winter I will be adding around two M3 of compost and manure high in Nitrogen, thanks kimmsr for your comments

Overgrowth of greenery on fruit trees might be a sign of too much nitrogen. I have the same problem with my apple trees, they have to be pruned every year or they get 'leggy'.

Since your K and P are adequate and fruit doesn't want too much nitrogen, manure may not be the best option to increase soil organic matter. Obviously the soil needs some organic matter, based on the test, and the cracking ground says "Mulch!" This leads me to think something like shredded wood mulch would be good. Some manure won't hurt, especially if you can't get wood mulch, but if you can find some, put mulch over the manure at least.

Does that sound like a good idea to everyone?