Based on the monitoring data of soil temperature and humidity in apple orchard which was a 20-year old with sandcovering，variation of soil temperature，moisture，mineral nutrients and compatness were analyzed in the past threeyears.The result showedthat:(1)Sand covering increased soiltemperature，decreased frozen soil depth and shortened durationof low temperature below 0℃.Compared withtillage，annual mean temperature in 0～ 80 cm soils layer with sandcovering increased by0.8℃，duration of temperature below 0℃ in 20 and 40 cm soil layer was shortened by 14.5 days and 9.5days，respectively.At bloomperiod，mean daily soil temperature of sand covering showed an increase of 1.6℃ thantillage，which was conducive to growth and development of apple root and cold resistance ability in earlyspring.The annualpeak soil temperature of different soil layers with sand covering was inJuly，and temperature increasing effect of 40 cm soillayer was the most obvious and it was 1.2℃ higher than that of tillagetreatment.Soil temperature amplitude and the dailychange were decreased with sand covering，and its variation coefficients also reduced with the increased of soil depth.(2)Ingenerally，the soil water content in apple orchard increased and thendeclined.The soil water content increasedsignificantly by sandcovering，which was 3.0% higher than tillage in annual and was 5.0% higher than tillage in dormancyperiod.The peak water content of sand covering was in June，and it was earlier thantillage，which was conducive toalleviating the drought in early summer in the NorthernChina.Sand covering significantly maintained and improved watersupply for deep soillayers，and reduced variation of soilmoisture.Throughout theyear，sand covering kept mean water content of 60 cm and 80 cm soil layer at 20.4%～ 22.4% and 19.5%～22.1%，which were 5.0% and 6.1% higher thantillage，respectively.But the mean soil water content of 40 cm in sand covering(16.8%)was the lowest，which was 0.5% lower than tillage.(3)The soil nutrient content with long -term sand covering decreased with increased depth ofsoil. The total nitrogen of 60～80 cm，ammonium nitrogen and available phosphorus of 0～ 20 cm with sand covering were significantly higher and available potassium of 0～20 cm was significantly decreased thantillage.The nitrate was moreaccumulated in deeper layers by sand covering，and mean nitrate content was lower than tillage in 0～80 cm soil layer，while ammonium nitrogen content was significantly decreased with increased depth ofsoil.The soil bulk density of 0～ 20 cm with long-term sand covering was significantly higher thantillage，and soil porosity decreasedsignificantly.The researchsuggested that sand covering has significantly improved rhizosphere environment of fruit trees in apple orchard，which wasbeneficial for enhancing water and fertilizer utilizationefficiency，fruit quality and income oforchards.