If there is one thing I've learned from you, it's "Happy Roots, Happy Tree!". Roots are the part we have control over ... the fertilizer for intake, the watering time/rate/volume, and the mulch for temperature control. Do those properly, and the tree will manage itself and you'll have some pretty good results!!
Glad I caught this video. I see them every so often. I'm in a low desert and we have similar struggles. 25 years at the site and still learning. Tried 5 apricots. 1 produced... 4 became firewood. Peaches do well for about 7 years, then borers finally get them. Our current variety is Oh Henry, which produces mid Summer. Sadly pomegranate fruits get infested with alternaria something or other. We have a grapefruit that was planted before we moved here. It thrives and produces many cases of fruit in Summer months. I heard it was some local variety. Just trying figs and our trees look like yours, dry leaves and struggling. The dwarf Violette Beaurdou (sp?) produces small fruit, but does the best. Fireblight is here. It's not something to mess with. Cut out infected branches, remove dropped leaves, and remove from the site. Do not compost. It makes the pom tree family and pyracanthia hard to grow. Thanks for your videos. I'm still learning as I watch your channel.
@gogogardener may I ask what is the name of the apricot which you keep? Regarding figs: the traditional varieties from the Canary Islands, which survive and produce fruits with just 100 inches of rain a year might be worth an attempt (if you can get them).
@@Robert_Hermigua Our apricots were the first trees planted, before I documented them. Sorry. I know each was a different variety. I concluded some were too high of chill hours. The one I have is self fertile and is probably a 250 to 300 chill hour variety.
Looking at the perimeter, you still have a lot of land to grow into. As far as watering goes, I've lost a lot of cactus because of the heat. Even cactus need water, so if cactus needs water, I can't imagine all the water your plants need on the farm.
We're basically only using about half of the property so far, so yes still lots of space to grow. We also doubled our watering this summer for the trees and they're still in rough shape!
This kind of video is so valuable for those of us who grow in the brutal arid heat. Thank you! It helps to know if what I see on my plants is normal at the end of the heat. I appreciate your content so much!
Glad you caught those air balloons. It was all I could do to keep from going over there with the drone and getting some closer up shots. Just wasn't sure if that was Kosher or not!
Thanks for the video. I'm sure you're tired of hearing thoughts about wood chips but I think I remember hearing that you used to have them delivered for free for some time. I would think dedicating a half acre to 12-15 inches of wood chips and seeing what the results are to the soil below after just a year would be an amazing experiment for you. Best of luck with your farm.
I have .25 acre property with 1 ft of wood chips. It’s helped keep moisture. I live in central Phoenix so it’s as hot as it gets. I have two avocado trees under 70% shade fabric. They’ve grown well. Wood chip decompose really fast because of the amount of watering. Wood chips in full sun don’t really decompose.
I just put down 50 yards of mulch in my depleted blackland prairie clay in Texas. It is for my 2026 fruit trees I also used it to fix the soil around the 93 fruit trees I planted in the last 2 years. I will often dig around the mulched area from 2 years ago to see the soil improvement. The fruit tree growth is excellent.
Thanks for the farm update! I've been gone from home most of the summer. We're not immune to all the heat damage as well.. we've lost a few and see new growth on some plants we thought were a total loss.
Thank you for sharing!! So helpful to see what others experience has been during this challenging summer. Really appreciate the candid tour and not showing only the "perfect" part of the farm. :). The stragglers are starting to push some green out now that the night temps are a little cooler. Makes me realize how valuable rain water is in helping our trees despite soaring temps. I guess it is the AZ version of "tough love". Thanks for all you do to help all of us learn and grow with you!
Thanks for showing drone view of the farm. It's nice to have an overview and seeing the pigs from above down is cool. Perhaps the apple trees can be grown under big nut trees where it can get some shades🤔
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Türkiye harika bir yer size ne anlatıyorlar ama bilmem türkiye gerçekten yaşanacak bir yer adeta cennet enkısa zamanda beklerim gelim misafirim olun sizi her yeri gezdireyim
Have you ever considered planting native trees around the perimeter for wind block and microclimate builder ? Even planting mesquites within the fruit orchard could help shade the fruit trees and fix nitrogen with their roots
We may eventually work some of those into the "back 40" as completely dry grown trees from seed, but we're limited on what we can do at this point. Out here we're restricted on how much we can keep "green" with irrigation and we're almost at that limit. At this point anything else would have to grow up and survive on it's own. We technically can't even manually water any additional plantings.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm you can grade the land to drain towards your natives. if you water in native trees the first year and help a little the second year then they should be good to go, especially if you mulch them too. Check out Brad Lancaster’s book “rainwater harvesting for drylands and beyond”. I own a rainwater harvesting biz and that book is our Bible. I love the work you guys have been doing over the years. Bravo friends
It's been a brutal summer in South-Eastern Europe too, scorching heat and no rain for months even though we are a temperate climate. We've definitely lost some trees, even ones that had made it through a couple of seasons, which is disappointing. I planted a small loquat in spring and don't think i realised it was supposed to be in shade, it barely made it, the main leader died back but i think a side branch is going to bring it back. It's definitely a struggle, still working on different strategies to mitigate this climate, which is all kinds of messed up. I should say our figs did crazy well with zero watering.
Hello from the other side of the world! Wow, it's crazy to hear this. I think of pretty much anywhere in Europe and equate at least some moderate rainfall. I imagine even going just several weeks would make a severe impact. Keeping our fingers crossed for that loquat. We have 4 of them in full sun and they struggle a little bit in the summer, but they bounce back just fine. The key we've found is planting them in the month of October so they get some root establishment before the heat of summer. If she doesn't pull through it may be worth trying that!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Thanks, yes, no rainfall for 3 months, crazy. Thankfully we've now had good rain in September and October, it's like the growing season finally began! The usual wisdom is to plant trees in spring, or at least during dormancy as bare-root plants, but I am increasingly inclined to agree that autumn would be better, it's just you have to find potted plants and they are more expensive as a rule.
@@thehillsidegardener3961 ah yes, that would present a challenge. For us here in the states, loquat trees are always potted, so it's easier for us to find those in the Fall.
According to the National Weather Service (US), the highest temperature recorded in Arizona was 128f or 53c in 1994. That's possibly why you had very small losses.
It's not so much the recorded "high" as it is the number of record consecutive high day & night temps, with no rain, which was especially bad this year.
Have you considered a food forest style of planting to create a microclimate for tropicals? There’s some growers doing great things with proper tropical fruit which are thriving here in the valley. I’m glad you plants and animals seem to be surviving. Let’s hope you can find teaks to you systems to help them thrive. Sometimes ya just gotta think outside the box and compromise and find ways to help your plants and animals to not need to suffer and struggle as much. I hope the fall and winter are mild enough for them to recover.
We're working towards something like that with the banana, but it's going to be tough for us out here. We're actually zone 9a out here and hit 20 degrees solid in the Winter which is about 5-6 degrees colder than in the city.
Im confused at something I heard during the video, maybe I heard wrong or it was a mistake on the dialogue but when you were referring to the Apple in the pot at the 7:33ish mark of the video you said that it was not the correct rootstock that you get from RSI. I thought that the RSI rootstock IS the one you want? Thanks for the clarification Duane/Lori! All things considered with the record heat, the farm looks great!
I visited dry southern Italy and they grew there grape vines at a height of about two-three feet vice the five to six feet height of yours. I was informed that they do this to cope with the high evaporation rates.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm these past two summers are the extremes of the bell curve. Maybe this will be our new normal. Not sure but that’s where building microclimates with natives might be helpful. Even planting natives shrubs underneath the fruit trees might help keep the bark safe.
Sweet potato, Sweet potato grow far and wide, protect my soil. Micro-ecosystems will abide. Love that ground cover and all the armor over the soil. In the area around the farm, what are the cheapest native grassy groundcovers available? Great to see the living roots in the soil. Spectacular flyover.
There really isn't a native ground cover (grass/weed) that grows here during the dry season. We do get some grasses that pop up when we have rain, but it's dry and gone within a few weeks.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarmperhaps some variety of purslane would be a suitable ground cover since it’s a succulent and would insulate the ground better. Plus it’s edible. I saw Geoff Lawton uses Sesuvium portulacastrum at his extremely arid desert site and it was growing like crazy.
@@CampingforCool41 purslane does grow here during the Spring and late Fall, but it doesn't survive either the Winter or Summer weather that we have. It's an excellent ground cover though!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm, Duane and Lori, I appreciate your hard work and persevering efforts and results. Although this might meander off your mission statement, let me ask if your grey water can be used to offset the effects of the dry season? Inevitably, I have to walk the walk. Complete respect. Thanks for the conversation.
@@Reciprocity_Soils great question/suggestion and I assume you're speaking of the grey water from the house? Believe it or not, we asked that questions when we were drawing up the plans for the house wanting to incorporate that with the design. We had 2 different sources (the builder and a GC friend of ours) inform us it was against the law for us to do so! I don't know if it's a county issue or the entire state, but given we're pretty public with everything we do it's not on the agenda.
Most of our apples did just fine this Summer as the root stocks are designed to take the heat. This little one in the pot however has the same root stock and it just could not keep up.
Thank you for sharing this video ❤️❤️. One of the most interesting I think❤❤. I would like to be longer 😊😊❤❤. Admire your effort and work. Greetings from Slovakia ❤️. We have 13degrees Celsius these rainy days 😅
Great update! I don’t think people understand the impact 100+ degrees does to plants and livestock. With that in mind, have you give. Thought to companion plants taking advantage of the cooler microclimates of your more established trees?
Hey Chet. I'm not sure whether we'll add that or not. The biggest issue is keeping the ground from becoming a hiding spot for rattle snakes. With the general public on the farm it's not a good combo. The second issue is fertilizing. We need to be able to pull back the area around the trees to add fertilizer 3x/year. Those 2 things have kept it off the list so far.
@@chetnash5991 we have not seen them in the woodchips. They usually build their nests behind other animals/rodents, so holes in the ground are always a question mark. Is it a ground squirrel still or snakes now?
Hi. You mentioned that you believe you opened the center a bit too much on one of your trees. I’ve often wondered if I should leave a few leafy center branches to protect the center just a bit. Your thoughts?
Generally it's not necessary, but this branch was just a little too open. Either way, it won't hurt to leave a branch or two in the middle just to be safe.
Those are on a dedicated irrigation line that we ran with all of the other lines back in 2020. We use a higher rate bubbler (1gpm vs 0.5gpm) given the size of the trees.
Been bad, all the heat. All the horseradish kicked off, but probably because I wasn't minding the buckets. It needs shade here but the sun moved over and hit the buckets, killing the roots. *Unintended experiment, sorghum planted by both new peach trees. one tree, on the west side (worse side) the sorghum took off and is now 8-9 feet tall and a nearby tobacco tree decided to live and got suckers all around a nice, dead stump, worse luck. But, the peach is fine, green, full-sized leaves. *Other peach protected with a wind break, the sorghum died. It looks not good. It's alive, and some new leaves, but man, wow nothing compared to the other one. *No matter what, your place looks great.
This year definitely sneaked up on us. We didn't have those really hot days like we have the last few years, but all of those days with absolutely no reprieve and now to have it continuing is really taking it's toll.
We either cover the tree with bird netting (peach trees only) or we cover each fruit with an organza bag. The reality is, there is a LOT of fruit that winds up going to the birds around here.
Unfortunately within a day or so that last branch gave up the ghost and the tree is completely dead back to the graft point. There was serious sun damage to the trunk that we didn't protect against after repotting it year before last.
There is still 1 hive that is hanging in there. The folks who own them have not been here for a few months, so we don't know for sure to be honest. We just see the bees coming and going from the hive and sipping water everywhere on the farm. 🤷
@EdgeofNowhereFarm thank you. We're looking to buy land in Arizona in the next year or two, but are unsure how much we can reasonably handle. After living in a very populated area in Utah, we are looking forward to having fewer neighbors. Lol. Keep up the good work. We enjoy watching you! 👍👍
I think you need to move back to California….I know the land is so expensive here in California but I can only imagine how amazing your farm would look if you had better weather….
No, we're just too cold in the Winter out here for us to attempt them. They would need supplemental heat when we hit 20 degrees in the Winter and we're just not willing to do that much work for a few pieces of fruit!
If there is one thing I've learned from you, it's "Happy Roots, Happy Tree!". Roots are the part we have control over ... the fertilizer for intake, the watering time/rate/volume, and the mulch for temperature control. Do those properly, and the tree will manage itself and you'll have some pretty good results!!
Bingo Kevin. This year we definitely tested that out!
Glad I caught this video. I see them every so often. I'm in a low desert and we have similar struggles. 25 years at the site and still learning. Tried 5 apricots. 1 produced... 4 became firewood. Peaches do well for about 7 years, then borers finally get them. Our current variety is Oh Henry, which produces mid Summer. Sadly pomegranate fruits get infested with alternaria something or other. We have a grapefruit that was planted before we moved here. It thrives and produces many cases of fruit in Summer months. I heard it was some local variety. Just trying figs and our trees look like yours, dry leaves and struggling. The dwarf Violette Beaurdou (sp?) produces small fruit, but does the best. Fireblight is here. It's not something to mess with. Cut out infected branches, remove dropped leaves, and remove from the site. Do not compost. It makes the pom tree family and pyracanthia hard to grow.
Thanks for your videos. I'm still learning as I watch your channel.
@gogogardener may I ask what is the name of the apricot which you keep?
Regarding figs: the traditional varieties from the Canary Islands, which survive and produce fruits with just 100 inches of rain a year might be worth an attempt (if you can get them).
@@Robert_Hermigua Our apricots were the first trees planted, before I documented them. Sorry. I know each was a different variety. I concluded some were too high of chill hours. The one I have is self fertile and is probably a 250 to 300 chill hour variety.
Great video, nice to see the updates.
Glad you enjoyed this one Pam!
Looking at the perimeter, you still have a lot of land to grow into. As far as watering goes, I've lost a lot of cactus because of the heat. Even cactus need water, so if cactus needs water, I can't imagine all the water your plants need on the farm.
We're basically only using about half of the property so far, so yes still lots of space to grow. We also doubled our watering this summer for the trees and they're still in rough shape!
This heat has been tough for sure.
It really has been a long, hot summer.
Just a shout out to Dwayne. I really enjoy your passionate articulate way of talking about your home and farm. All the best to you and Lori.
Thank you for the kind words. ❤️
I think your farm is awesome. Great job 👍❤
Thank you!! ❤️❤️
This kind of video is so valuable for those of us who grow in the brutal arid heat. Thank you! It helps to know if what I see on my plants is normal at the end of the heat. I appreciate your content so much!
It's always rough looking this time of year, but this year has been especially tough!
Thanks for the update. It was really good seeing all of the trees. I like the drone view of the farm. Noticed some hot air balloons in the background.
Glad you caught those air balloons. It was all I could do to keep from going over there with the drone and getting some closer up shots. Just wasn't sure if that was Kosher or not!
Thanks for the update!!
Nice touch on the sweet potato covering your banana trees! Very smart
I was hoping you'd see that one! Aloha!
Thanks for the video. I'm sure you're tired of hearing thoughts about wood chips but I think I remember hearing that you used to have them delivered for free for some time. I would think dedicating a half acre to 12-15 inches of wood chips and seeing what the results are to the soil below after just a year would be an amazing experiment for you. Best of luck with your farm.
I have .25 acre property with 1 ft of wood chips. It’s helped keep moisture. I live in central Phoenix so it’s as hot as it gets. I have two avocado trees under 70% shade fabric. They’ve grown well. Wood chip decompose really fast because of the amount of watering. Wood chips in full sun don’t really decompose.
We did have a good run of getting wood chips, but we have not received a delivery in over 2 years, so we're hoarding those for now!
I just put down 50 yards of mulch in my depleted blackland prairie clay in Texas. It is for my 2026 fruit trees
I also used it to fix the soil around the 93 fruit trees I planted in the last 2 years.
I will often dig around the mulched area from 2 years ago to see the soil improvement.
The fruit tree growth is excellent.
This is reality!! Thank you for this video! It is inspiring and affirming for me that my struggle in Dubais desert is normal. ❤️
Glad you enjoyed this one and hello from the other side of the world!!
Thanks for the farm update! I've been gone from home most of the summer. We're not immune to all the heat damage as well.. we've lost a few and see new growth on some plants we thought were a total loss.
This summer was brutal! Seeing any new growth is definitely a good sign. 😊
Thank you for sharing!! So helpful to see what others experience has been during this challenging summer. Really appreciate the candid tour and not showing only the "perfect" part of the farm. :). The stragglers are starting to push some green out now that the night temps are a little cooler. Makes me realize how valuable rain water is in helping our trees despite soaring temps. I guess it is the AZ version of "tough love". Thanks for all you do to help all of us learn and grow with you!
Glad you enjoyed this one. We try to show as much as we can and the bad is part of that!
Thanks for showing drone view of the farm. It's nice to have an overview and seeing the pigs from above down is cool. Perhaps the apple trees can be grown under big nut trees where it can get some shades🤔
Glad you enjoyed this one. For potted trees it would definitely help to have some shade during the peak of summer.
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@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Türkiye harika bir yer size ne anlatıyorlar ama bilmem türkiye gerçekten yaşanacak bir yer adeta cennet enkısa zamanda beklerim gelim misafirim olun sizi her yeri gezdireyim
@@mesutozsen903 Umarım bir gün bunu gerçekleştirebiliriz!
Have you ever considered planting native trees around the perimeter for wind block and microclimate builder ? Even planting mesquites within the fruit orchard could help shade the fruit trees and fix nitrogen with their roots
We may eventually work some of those into the "back 40" as completely dry grown trees from seed, but we're limited on what we can do at this point. Out here we're restricted on how much we can keep "green" with irrigation and we're almost at that limit. At this point anything else would have to grow up and survive on it's own. We technically can't even manually water any additional plantings.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm you can grade the land to drain towards your natives. if you water in native trees the first year and help a little the second year then they should be good to go, especially if you mulch them too. Check out Brad Lancaster’s book “rainwater harvesting for drylands and beyond”. I own a rainwater harvesting biz and that book is our Bible. I love the work you guys have been doing over the years. Bravo friends
It's been a brutal summer in South-Eastern Europe too, scorching heat and no rain for months even though we are a temperate climate. We've definitely lost some trees, even ones that had made it through a couple of seasons, which is disappointing. I planted a small loquat in spring and don't think i realised it was supposed to be in shade, it barely made it, the main leader died back but i think a side branch is going to bring it back. It's definitely a struggle, still working on different strategies to mitigate this climate, which is all kinds of messed up. I should say our figs did crazy well with zero watering.
Hello from the other side of the world! Wow, it's crazy to hear this. I think of pretty much anywhere in Europe and equate at least some moderate rainfall. I imagine even going just several weeks would make a severe impact. Keeping our fingers crossed for that loquat. We have 4 of them in full sun and they struggle a little bit in the summer, but they bounce back just fine. The key we've found is planting them in the month of October so they get some root establishment before the heat of summer. If she doesn't pull through it may be worth trying that!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Thanks, yes, no rainfall for 3 months, crazy. Thankfully we've now had good rain in September and October, it's like the growing season finally began! The usual wisdom is to plant trees in spring, or at least during dormancy as bare-root plants, but I am increasingly inclined to agree that autumn would be better, it's just you have to find potted plants and they are more expensive as a rule.
@@thehillsidegardener3961 ah yes, that would present a challenge. For us here in the states, loquat trees are always potted, so it's easier for us to find those in the Fall.
According to the National Weather Service (US), the highest temperature recorded in Arizona was 128f or 53c in 1994. That's possibly why you had very small losses.
No doubt it can get much hotter. The lack of rain with absolutely no reprieve was the record we set this year and it's still not giving up.
It's not so much the recorded "high" as it is the number of record consecutive high day & night temps, with no rain, which was especially bad this year.
Have you considered a food forest style of planting to create a microclimate for tropicals? There’s some growers doing great things with proper tropical fruit which are thriving here in the valley. I’m glad you plants and animals seem to be surviving. Let’s hope you can find teaks to you systems to help them thrive. Sometimes ya just gotta think outside the box and compromise and find ways to help your plants and animals to not need to suffer and struggle as much. I hope the fall and winter are mild enough for them to recover.
We're working towards something like that with the banana, but it's going to be tough for us out here. We're actually zone 9a out here and hit 20 degrees solid in the Winter which is about 5-6 degrees colder than in the city.
Im confused at something I heard during the video, maybe I heard wrong or it was a mistake on the dialogue but when you were referring to the Apple in the pot at the 7:33ish mark of the video you said that it was not the correct rootstock that you get from RSI. I thought that the RSI rootstock IS the one you want? Thanks for the clarification Duane/Lori! All things considered with the record heat, the farm looks great!
Hey Eric. I should have clarified, it's not the ideal root stock for a potted tree. Those are aggressive roots designed for our soil. Good catch!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm ahhhh ok gotcha!
I had the same question.
I visited dry southern Italy and they grew there grape vines at a height of about two-three feet vice the five to six feet height of yours. I was informed that they do this to cope with the high evaporation rates.
That definitely makes sense!
Place looks amazing nonetheless
It's definitely hanging in there. It's always a bummer to see it go from a lot of green to a bit more brown with green!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm these past two summers are the extremes of the bell curve. Maybe this will be our new normal. Not sure but that’s where building microclimates with natives might be helpful. Even planting natives shrubs underneath the fruit trees might help keep the bark safe.
Will you kindly do a video on how to grow blackberries like yours. Mine keep dying on me. I’m in Avondale. Thank you 😊
We've done a few episodes on that, but I'll link the last one for you here where we discuss a few key details;
ua-cam.com/video/nkXnzFmcBPs/v-deo.html
Nice video
Thank you!
Sweet potato, Sweet potato grow far and wide, protect my soil. Micro-ecosystems will abide. Love that ground cover and all the armor over the soil. In the area around the farm, what are the cheapest native grassy groundcovers available? Great to see the living roots in the soil. Spectacular flyover.
There really isn't a native ground cover (grass/weed) that grows here during the dry season. We do get some grasses that pop up when we have rain, but it's dry and gone within a few weeks.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarmperhaps some variety of purslane would be a suitable ground cover since it’s a succulent and would insulate the ground better. Plus it’s edible. I saw Geoff Lawton uses Sesuvium portulacastrum at his extremely arid desert site and it was growing like crazy.
@@CampingforCool41 purslane does grow here during the Spring and late Fall, but it doesn't survive either the Winter or Summer weather that we have. It's an excellent ground cover though!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm, Duane and Lori, I appreciate your hard work and persevering efforts and results. Although this might meander off your mission statement, let me ask if your grey water can be used to offset the effects of the dry season? Inevitably, I have to walk the walk. Complete respect. Thanks for the conversation.
@@Reciprocity_Soils great question/suggestion and I assume you're speaking of the grey water from the house? Believe it or not, we asked that questions when we were drawing up the plans for the house wanting to incorporate that with the design. We had 2 different sources (the builder and a GC friend of ours) inform us it was against the law for us to do so! I don't know if it's a county issue or the entire state, but given we're pretty public with everything we do it's not on the agenda.
My Apple tree bit the dust just too hot. Apple trees like cooler weather.
Most of our apples did just fine this Summer as the root stocks are designed to take the heat. This little one in the pot however has the same root stock and it just could not keep up.
Thank you for sharing this video ❤️❤️. One of the most interesting I think❤❤. I would like to be longer 😊😊❤❤. Admire your effort and work.
Greetings from Slovakia ❤️. We have 13degrees Celsius these rainy days 😅
I'm glad you enjoyed this one and wow, what I would give to have a 13 degree C day right now!! Today's high is 40 degrees C!
Great update! I don’t think people understand the impact 100+ degrees does to plants and livestock. With that in mind, have you give. Thought to companion plants taking advantage of the cooler microclimates of your more established trees?
Hey Chet. I'm not sure whether we'll add that or not. The biggest issue is keeping the ground from becoming a hiding spot for rattle snakes. With the general public on the farm it's not a good combo. The second issue is fertilizing. We need to be able to pull back the area around the trees to add fertilizer 3x/year. Those 2 things have kept it off the list so far.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Do rattlers bury in the wood chips? I forgot you may have that problem
@@chetnash5991 we have not seen them in the woodchips. They usually build their nests behind other animals/rodents, so holes in the ground are always a question mark. Is it a ground squirrel still or snakes now?
Hi. You mentioned that you believe you opened the center a bit too much on one of your trees. I’ve often wondered if I should leave a few leafy center branches to protect the center just a bit. Your thoughts?
Generally it's not necessary, but this branch was just a little too open. Either way, it won't hurt to leave a branch or two in the middle just to be safe.
How do you irrigate the trees(type) on the back fence line?🤔🤔🤔
Those are on a dedicated irrigation line that we ran with all of the other lines back in 2020. We use a higher rate bubbler (1gpm vs 0.5gpm) given the size of the trees.
Been bad, all the heat. All the horseradish kicked off, but probably because I wasn't minding the buckets. It needs shade here but the sun moved over and hit the buckets, killing the roots.
*Unintended experiment, sorghum planted by both new peach trees. one tree, on the west side (worse side) the sorghum took off and is now 8-9 feet tall and a nearby tobacco tree decided to live and got suckers all around a nice, dead stump, worse luck. But, the peach is fine, green, full-sized leaves.
*Other peach protected with a wind break, the sorghum died. It looks not good. It's alive, and some new leaves, but man, wow nothing compared to the other one.
*No matter what, your place looks great.
This year definitely sneaked up on us. We didn't have those really hot days like we have the last few years, but all of those days with absolutely no reprieve and now to have it continuing is really taking it's toll.
What do you use to reduce bird damage to your fruit before it even ripens?
We either cover the tree with bird netting (peach trees only) or we cover each fruit with an organza bag. The reality is, there is a LOT of fruit that winds up going to the birds around here.
You must have a hack of a well
We are on a personal well here on the farm and the Wittmann area has a FANTASTIC aquifer with one of the best recharge rates in the state.
What is the depth of the well I live around Bartlett lake area
@@petekeefe3249 it's 600 feet deep and the static water level is right around 420.
It’s not too late to save that apple
Unfortunately within a day or so that last branch gave up the ghost and the tree is completely dead back to the graft point. There was serious sun damage to the trunk that we didn't protect against after repotting it year before last.
I’m sure you’ve discussed this many times before but why don’t you mulch the pathways?
Those are used for the general public to walk through our orchards, so we keep them clear for folks with walkers and wheel chairs.
How are the bees doing?
There is still 1 hive that is hanging in there. The folks who own them have not been here for a few months, so we don't know for sure to be honest. We just see the bees coming and going from the hive and sipping water everywhere on the farm. 🤷
Love your farm. How many acres?
We're on a total of 6 acres here.
@EdgeofNowhereFarm thank you. We're looking to buy land in Arizona in the next year or two, but are unsure how much we can reasonably handle. After living in a very populated area in Utah, we are looking forward to having fewer neighbors. Lol. Keep up the good work. We enjoy watching you! 👍👍
I think you need to move back to California….I know the land is so expensive here in California but I can only imagine how amazing your farm would look if you had better weather….
If we could afford to do a fraction of this in SoCal we would be there...well maybe not. Lori wont' leave her grand kids....once we have some!
It's bigger than I thought? You must have a well? No way can you keep it that green with a water bill?
You are correct. We are on a private well here on the farm.
Mango 🥭?
No, we're just too cold in the Winter out here for us to attempt them. They would need supplemental heat when we hit 20 degrees in the Winter and we're just not willing to do that much work for a few pieces of fruit!
Great video, please can you show more of the hogwarts pigs🙏
Thank you! We'll try to get more of them in a vlog soon 😉
bro buy a farm in a rainforest next time... that desert looks so desolated.
That would sure make irrigation a heck of a lot less expensive!
Bro, learn about swells and agroforestry, because you need some reading to realize how you can make your farm waaaaay better
Hmm, ok.
Excellent video. Sneak Peek of orchard. I found Jujube tree with fruit. Which varity of JUjube?
Hey Abid. That is the Shanxi Li jujube. It's a younger tree and produces really well!