I love Enlightenment Gardens channel. I basically used her videos to study for what Bamboo to plant here in Vegas. Glad she was able to get you guys two new varieties of figs!
Hey there Jessie. Natasha is the best and she really knows her stuff. She has gifted us a few figs and tried her best to help us get cuttings going. Lori is heading over to see her this week for a quick tour of her place...and probably to get another fig tree or two. 😉
One of the best things I did do to help trees along is to cut a piece of 10cm diameter PVC pipe about 60cm long. Drill a few 10mm holes around one edge and position it vertically in a 60cm deep hole , about 20cm away from the plant that is to be planted in that hole. In dry times you fill up the pipe which lets the water settle deeper underground and be available for the plants to tap into.
Looking at this after the fact it was pretty cool to see it working. Funny how the best thing for the tree is something so art worthy! Of course, it will be nothing compared to a beautiful fig tree in that otherwise barren duck pen!
Wonderful videos folks. I am in SE Arizona and in mid June planted 4 Empress or Paulownia trees. So far so good! They are between 3 and 5 feet tall now with huge tropical leaves. Love them! Love your water rings and tons of mulch. Such a smart way to grow things. Since I am rainwater harvesting only and have no well unfortunately I have to simply water a much smaller single ring at the base of my trees. Not ideal as all of the water goes to the center area of the tree but I am hoping when monsoons come each year the roots then will go out from there. Just a real beginner when it comes to planting trees but so far my 4 pines, desert willow and Paulownia etc. are all doing well. But then I hand water them all almost daily with about 2.5 gallons ea. Such enjoyable relaxing paced videos. Really enjoy your channel. God Bless you folks today!
Hats off to you working in AZ off grid. Not only do you have the same challenges anyone else would without grid tied electric, you have the challenge of AZ weather!
Putting a fig tree in your duck pen is a great idea. I have one in my goose pen and dump the nasty water on it all time time and it loves it. I never have to give it any other fertilizer 😂
This is good to know Jared. We have noticed that they tend to struggle a bit more than our other trees in the peak of summer, so we figure the extra moisture that's always in this pen will help!
One of the things you'll notice in this video is we are removing wood chips before we plant. Those have been watered every day for the last couple of months. That's why that dirt was easier to work with. Otherwise, we are chiseling through it with an auger just to get a few inches down!
They really do work wonders. This is the first time we've used this design against a fence, but given how well the full rings work, I imagine this will be just fine.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I've never seen the like before, and I've been in horticulture for more years than I care to think about. Over here in the Southeast, we don't have the same dry conditions, obviously, but I can see it being very useful nonetheless. We normally use a thick mulch layer more for weed control, but you can bet I'll start putting in those rings, too. I can't see any reason why it wouldn't work well enough, especially when we do have dry spells in the summer. I'm trying to talk the folks from Rockpile Off-Grid Homestead channel (down in Australia) into installing a few of your ring designs in their orchard. They have fast-draining soil with a high sand content, so anything that holds water a little longer will be a tremendous boon for them.
Perfect timing!! I moved to Laveen at the beginning of Summer. Whole back yard was barren hardpack wasteland in a newer neighborhood. My wife and I just bought 5 citrus, Mango, a pomegranate, and 2 queen palm this morning! Gonna dig them all in tonight and I'll use your technique! Should I add slow release fertilizer to all of them at this point in the year? Thank you guys!!
Woohoo!! Congrats on those new tree babies. It's a great time of year to plant, except for that mango. You may want to wait for spring on that one as winters are very hard on tropical trees. New trees generally don't need much in the way of fertilizer. We use a mix of fish emulsion and Vitamin B-1 to kick start root growth over the Winter. Once we get into February you can have at it with the fertilizer!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm thank you for the advice! I have fish emulsion and liquid kelp. I'll just use those for now and water it in really well and wait till spring to do the rest. Thank you guys!
Glad you enjoyed this one. Figs are simply amazing. They have been cultivated for millennia and the incredible diversity is truly remarkable. Much like the history of apples!
Luffa are cool. I'm thinking of making an arch ro raise them. All summer fences are covered with tepary beans and chilacayote squash. That's pretty much how we water the figs here because the trenches are only 3 feet wide. Man, watching you fill the trench with water my water bill is going no! no! LOL. Moringa, I wish mine looked that good. I definitely will be planting a lot more in the spring. hasta, kids!
Hey Martin. We need to give those beans a shot. How are those squash when it comes to squash bugs? We got hit hard with those this summer, so it has us hesitant to plant those for at least a season.
I always thought loofa's came from the ocean. Silly me!! LOL! Also, I've been waiting for the ducks to start flying away...also, I'm concerned about those turkey's!
The good news with the ducks is they stay together and the only breed we have that can fly to any extent are the Muscovy. The female readily flies over the fence, but stays close because she's the only one who can clear it! The turkeys are just getting too big to fly. They're no longer able to get to the top of their coop at this point and we've even removed their roosts as they were hurting themselves trying to jump down. Much like their broiler chicken counterpart, they grow so large, so quickly that they don't act like regular turkeys when it comes to flight once they're older.
I have been wanting to make the loofah soaps too! One tip I learned of was to soak your loofah after slicing it so the thicker veins do not scratch skin!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm oh wow! I super admire how you’re all so ready to learn new things. I also admire that you homeschooled your kiddos, my son is 9 and he’s homeschooled also. He’s never been to public school 😬 if there was ever a kid’s tour at Edge of Nowhere, we’d love to join!
@@susybot we have a couple of scheduled tours each year and we welcome kids on the farm. We announce those tours through our customer email list, so you'll want to join that in order to know when they will be. You can join through our website linked here; www.edgeofnowherefarm.com/
For 2 of my trees I've decided to use your bubbler and channel method, however I made a modification. I have your typical pool backyard and patio yard, therefore I am filling the channels with gravel for aesthetics. Prior I was using drip irrigation, however I noticed that my spray emitters were spraying 130% more water than advertised! As a result I switched to bubblers. I wish I could send you 2 pictures.
Hey there Max. I think you'll find the switch to bubblers is going to do wonders for your trees. Drip is fine if you don't have the ability to flood (or use a bubbler to flood), but it's not optimal. Our email address is on the About tab here on UA-cam if you want to shoot a pic over.
Wow that's a lot of work feeding. You might have enough animals to incorporate some automatic feeders. My grandfather had two deer-feeders on floats permanently in the pond to feed his catfish.
Very true on that one Bob. We're trying to figure out the best way to automate the ducks as they're not seasonal for us. We had one for the pigs, but we very quickly outgrew a 6 head feeder!!
Hey there stranger! It's always good to see some of our long time Aussie friends in the comments section. I'm familiar with cockatiels, but what is a budgie?
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm budgerigars, little parrots that mostly eat grain, they live in big flocks Their body is about 4 inches long from head to feet, and this is what we talk about when we call speedos/male swimming trunks “budgie smugglers”
I love your loofah arches - they are so pretty. I've definitely added them to my desert garden wish list which has expanded considerably since I started watching your channel (ages ago)! ♥ How did you develop your brilliant design with the berms and irrigation rings for your trees? Was it just trial and error?
We have been very impressed with those loofah vines. They stunted a little in June, but took off with the monsoon weather! That ring design was trial and error. We started irrigating with rings when we moved to the old property, but were using drip irrigation with an occasional heavy soak with the hose. Here we incorporated the irrigation bubblers, so we could deep soak every week, but needed to figure out how to have trees of different ages on the same zone. Hence the 2 ring design.
Excellent video. MS. Lori has instance wisdom , she cane make good decision at any condition of farm. She will be the best Farm Manager . I tried to get fig cuttings from NATASHA. She was out of cuttings of Fig tree. However I tried from seeds, cuttings from ebay. I put in containers. I am not good plant producer from cuttings. I have couples plants
I really enjoy watching your videos. I learn a lot! I am in Yuma and am going to plant an orange, banana, mango, and lime tree on my residential property that is about 1/5 of an acre. It seems that my soil is sand for at least 1.5 feet below the surface. Do you think I should add cactus/citrus soil to the hole in which I am going to plant the trees to improve the soil before putting in the trees?
Glad you're enjoying the content. If you're dealing with very sandy soil, your best option for amendments will be some type of compost or just basic, screened topsoil (dirt). That should give it some structure while the plants get accustomed to the native soil. If this is your first time growing fruit trees in AZ, I would HIGHLY recommend avoiding the tropical trees and start with your orange and lime. They are much easier to grow and will give you a consistent yield (tropical tree yields are very low in AZ IF you can get them to survive). Most folks in AZ fail miserably with tropical trees like mango and banana. Then they give up on growing, thinking it's too difficult when it's not. They (tropicals) are just very difficult to successfully grow here. Hence you won't see any videos from us on growing Mango!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I am going to plant my trees by the back wall in my back yard. How many feet away from the wall would you recommend I plant each tree?
@@pubdefendr It depends on the tree size. For citrus you can find semi-dwarf and dwarfing root stocks which grow at different rates. For a semi-dwarf tree I would suggest being at least 6-8 feet from the fence if you can in order to give the roots space to grow and a canopy to develop. You can get a bit closer for dwarf trees. Just keep in mind, block fences radiate a lot of heat and can damage or kill a tree. Especially young ones, so be sure to paint that trunk either way. We use IV Organics 3-in1 Trunk Guard for our young trees and I would highly recommend that stuff (use our discount code, EONFARM, at checkout if you end up doing that).
Great job, irrigation technique is very reasonable. Your videos are very useful and interesting. By the way What are your water source in that desert. Love from Kurdistan , good luck.
Yeah, that's always a challenge. Generally we don't worry too much about the ants on the fruit as they're usually after fruit that is already broken open (birds pecking it, etc). That being said, tree tanglefoot is the best thing we've found to keep them from getting up into the tree to get to the fruit.
@@franzb69 ah, ok. We had a visitor on the old farm from the Philippines who taught us how to properly eat moringa bean pods. Another one we had pretty much given up on until we were taught the right way to eat them!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm lol. moringa pods are eaten when they're young and tender. the luffa gourds are good to eat when they're around the size of a cucumber or a little bigger, before they start getting tough.
So nice to see those happy animals joyfully flapping and kicking when they are let out in the morning.
Joni, the animals are a complete joy to watch in the morning. They truly believe breakfast is the most important meal of the day!!
I love Enlightenment Gardens channel. I basically used her videos to study for what Bamboo to plant here in Vegas. Glad she was able to get you guys two new varieties of figs!
Hey there Jessie. Natasha is the best and she really knows her stuff. She has gifted us a few figs and tried her best to help us get cuttings going. Lori is heading over to see her this week for a quick tour of her place...and probably to get another fig tree or two. 😉
One of the best things I did do to help trees along is to cut a piece of 10cm diameter PVC pipe about 60cm long. Drill a few 10mm holes around one edge and position it vertically in a 60cm deep hole , about 20cm away from the plant that is to be planted in that hole. In dry times you fill up the pipe which lets the water settle deeper underground and be available for the plants to tap into.
We've seen a few folks using those before on some of their trees. Definitely makes sense for deep penetration of moisture.
Moving to Hereford next month. I find your vlogs so helpful. Even my 90 year old father watches now.
Hey there Jeri. Congrats on the move and really glad you're enjoying the content. Say hi to your pop for us!
Hi from Japan, Love this channel 😊
Wow Japan! So glad you are enjoying the channel Sofiane, thank you so much for the support!
What you guys do to plan a tree is a work of art!!!
Looking at this after the fact it was pretty cool to see it working. Funny how the best thing for the tree is something so art worthy! Of course, it will be nothing compared to a beautiful fig tree in that otherwise barren duck pen!
Wonderful videos folks. I am in SE Arizona and in mid June planted 4 Empress or Paulownia trees. So far so good! They are between 3 and 5 feet tall now with huge tropical leaves. Love them! Love your water rings and tons of mulch. Such a smart way to grow things. Since I am rainwater harvesting only and have no well unfortunately I have to simply water a much smaller single ring at the base of my trees. Not ideal as all of the water goes to the center area of the tree but I am hoping when monsoons come each year the roots then will go out from there. Just a real beginner when it comes to planting trees but so far my 4 pines, desert willow and Paulownia etc. are all doing well. But then I hand water them all almost daily with about 2.5 gallons ea. Such enjoyable relaxing paced videos. Really enjoy your channel. God Bless you folks today!
Hats off to you working in AZ off grid. Not only do you have the same challenges anyone else would without grid tied electric, you have the challenge of AZ weather!
Putting a fig tree in your duck pen is a great idea. I have one in my goose pen and dump the nasty water on it all time time and it loves it. I never have to give it any other fertilizer 😂
This is good to know Jared. We have noticed that they tend to struggle a bit more than our other trees in the peak of summer, so we figure the extra moisture that's always in this pen will help!
Orange and cherry trees would grow beautifully there. They would also provide good shade for the animals.
Hey Armando! We do have several orange trees, however we have tried numerous cherry trees and still haven't had any success...
I love your irrigation rings! Wish I would do them here. It's so hard to dig here. 😫 I might give them a try 🤗
One of the things you'll notice in this video is we are removing wood chips before we plant. Those have been watered every day for the last couple of months. That's why that dirt was easier to work with. Otherwise, we are chiseling through it with an auger just to get a few inches down!
That tree watering ring is just genius.
They really do work wonders. This is the first time we've used this design against a fence, but given how well the full rings work, I imagine this will be just fine.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I've never seen the like before, and I've been in horticulture for more years than I care to think about. Over here in the Southeast, we don't have the same dry conditions, obviously, but I can see it being very useful nonetheless. We normally use a thick mulch layer more for weed control, but you can bet I'll start putting in those rings, too. I can't see any reason why it wouldn't work well enough, especially when we do have dry spells in the summer.
I'm trying to talk the folks from Rockpile Off-Grid Homestead channel (down in Australia) into installing a few of your ring designs in their orchard. They have fast-draining soil with a high sand content, so anything that holds water a little longer will be a tremendous boon for them.
Même dans le désert on peut avoir une belle petite ferme si on sait s'y prendre ! Merci Nat d'avoir partager
Tu as tout à fait raison Gisèle. Quelques défis uniques à relever, mais au final ça peut quand même être beau et vert !
Figs love moisture. Planting them next to the air condition condensation drain would do wonders.
They definitely like a bit more moisture than most of our trees, that's for sure!
I was gifted a loofah some years ago and I like it a lot instead of a sponge for skin exfoliation.
I totally agree, it does a great job!
Perfect timing!! I moved to Laveen at the beginning of Summer. Whole back yard was barren hardpack wasteland in a newer neighborhood. My wife and I just bought 5 citrus, Mango, a pomegranate, and 2 queen palm this morning! Gonna dig them all in tonight and I'll use your technique! Should I add slow release fertilizer to all of them at this point in the year? Thank you guys!!
Woohoo!! Congrats on those new tree babies. It's a great time of year to plant, except for that mango. You may want to wait for spring on that one as winters are very hard on tropical trees.
New trees generally don't need much in the way of fertilizer. We use a mix of fish emulsion and Vitamin B-1 to kick start root growth over the Winter. Once we get into February you can have at it with the fertilizer!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm thank you for the advice! I have fish emulsion and liquid kelp. I'll just use those for now and water it in really well and wait till spring to do the rest. Thank you guys!
Nice presentation and instructions. I recently read an interesting article in The Smithsonian magazine about figs! Lots of history👌
Glad you enjoyed this one. Figs are simply amazing. They have been cultivated for millennia and the incredible diversity is truly remarkable. Much like the history of apples!
Luffa are cool. I'm thinking of making an arch ro raise them. All summer fences are covered with tepary beans and chilacayote squash.
That's pretty much how we water the figs here because the trenches are only 3 feet wide. Man, watching you fill the trench with water my water bill is going no! no! LOL.
Moringa, I wish mine looked that good. I definitely will be planting a lot more in the spring. hasta, kids!
Hey Martin. We need to give those beans a shot. How are those squash when it comes to squash bugs? We got hit hard with those this summer, so it has us hesitant to plant those for at least a season.
Nice work, friends.
Hey there Kezza. Glad you enjoyed this one!!
I always thought loofa's came from the ocean. Silly me!! LOL! Also, I've been waiting for the ducks to start flying away...also, I'm concerned about those turkey's!
The good news with the ducks is they stay together and the only breed we have that can fly to any extent are the Muscovy. The female readily flies over the fence, but stays close because she's the only one who can clear it!
The turkeys are just getting too big to fly. They're no longer able to get to the top of their coop at this point and we've even removed their roosts as they were hurting themselves trying to jump down. Much like their broiler chicken counterpart, they grow so large, so quickly that they don't act like regular turkeys when it comes to flight once they're older.
Sponges come from the ocean. :)
@@katrinahall3954 LOL! I think that's what I was thinking of. Ha!
I have been wanting to make the loofah soaps too! One tip I learned of was to soak your loofah after slicing it so the thicker veins do not scratch skin!
Great tip, thank you so much! This will be my first time even making soap so that is very helpful! 😀
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm oh wow! I super admire how you’re all so ready to learn new things. I also admire that you homeschooled your kiddos, my son is 9 and he’s homeschooled also. He’s never been to public school 😬 if there was ever a kid’s tour at Edge of Nowhere, we’d love to join!
@@susybot we have a couple of scheduled tours each year and we welcome kids on the farm. We announce those tours through our customer email list, so you'll want to join that in order to know when they will be. You can join through our website linked here;
www.edgeofnowherefarm.com/
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm done! Thanks so much!
For 2 of my trees I've decided to use your bubbler and channel method, however I made a modification. I have your typical pool backyard and patio yard, therefore I am filling the channels with gravel for aesthetics.
Prior I was using drip irrigation, however I noticed that my spray emitters were spraying 130% more water than advertised! As a result I switched to bubblers.
I wish I could send you 2 pictures.
Hey there Max. I think you'll find the switch to bubblers is going to do wonders for your trees. Drip is fine if you don't have the ability to flood (or use a bubbler to flood), but it's not optimal.
Our email address is on the About tab here on UA-cam if you want to shoot a pic over.
I just love the way you plant your trees. Haver thought about crossing it with the Helen White method?
Glad you enjoyed that! I haven't heard of that, will have to look it up!
Any fun ideas? I would love to see a mix of the two
Wow that's a lot of work feeding. You might have enough animals to incorporate some automatic feeders. My grandfather had two deer-feeders on floats permanently in the pond to feed his catfish.
Very true on that one Bob. We're trying to figure out the best way to automate the ducks as they're not seasonal for us. We had one for the pigs, but we very quickly outgrew a 6 head feeder!!
Aloha from Hawaii…regular viewer, love this channel too👍
Aloha Steven! Glad you are enjoying the channel, thank you!
Those are some big birds
I’m used to cockatiels and budgies. Maybe cockatoos being “big chooks with Mohawks”
Hey there stranger! It's always good to see some of our long time Aussie friends in the comments section. I'm familiar with cockatiels, but what is a budgie?
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm budgerigars, little parrots that mostly eat grain, they live in big flocks
Their body is about 4 inches long from head to feet, and this is what we talk about when we call speedos/male swimming trunks “budgie smugglers”
@@thomasa5619 oh my goodness, I've never heard that before! 😂
Thanks for sharing the info… it really helps 👍😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hogwartz 🤣
o, sorry :(
Recently learned those -sponges didn’t come from the sea! Awesome
Yeah, we had a poll last year to name our pig enclosure and that was the overwhelming winner!
I love your loofah arches - they are so pretty. I've definitely added them to my desert garden wish list which has expanded considerably since I started watching your channel (ages ago)! ♥ How did you develop your brilliant design with the berms and irrigation rings for your trees? Was it just trial and error?
We have been very impressed with those loofah vines. They stunted a little in June, but took off with the monsoon weather!
That ring design was trial and error. We started irrigating with rings when we moved to the old property, but were using drip irrigation with an occasional heavy soak with the hose. Here we incorporated the irrigation bubblers, so we could deep soak every week, but needed to figure out how to have trees of different ages on the same zone. Hence the 2 ring design.
Excellent video. MS. Lori has instance wisdom , she cane make good decision at any condition of farm. She will be the best Farm Manager . I tried to get fig cuttings from NATASHA. She was out of cuttings of Fig tree. However I tried from seeds, cuttings from ebay. I put in containers. I am not good plant producer from cuttings. I have couples plants
Thank you so much Abid! We didn't do so well with our cuttings either, we only got the 2 to survive out of all of them!
Will you link Natasha's info? Thank you, as always for sharing your skill. You guys are truly awesome!
Glad you enjoyed this one and I'll link to Natasha's channel for you here;
ua-cam.com/users/EnlightenmentGarden
I really enjoy watching your videos. I learn a lot!
I am in Yuma and am going to plant an orange, banana, mango, and lime tree on my residential property that is about 1/5 of an acre. It seems that my soil is sand for at least 1.5 feet below the surface. Do you think I should add cactus/citrus soil to the hole in which I am going to plant the trees to improve the soil before putting in the trees?
Glad you're enjoying the content. If you're dealing with very sandy soil, your best option for amendments will be some type of compost or just basic, screened topsoil (dirt). That should give it some structure while the plants get accustomed to the native soil.
If this is your first time growing fruit trees in AZ, I would HIGHLY recommend avoiding the tropical trees and start with your orange and lime. They are much easier to grow and will give you a consistent yield (tropical tree yields are very low in AZ IF you can get them to survive). Most folks in AZ fail miserably with tropical trees like mango and banana. Then they give up on growing, thinking it's too difficult when it's not. They (tropicals) are just very difficult to successfully grow here. Hence you won't see any videos from us on growing Mango!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm thank you very much for the prompt reply and info!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I am going to plant my trees by the back wall in my back yard. How many feet away from the wall would you recommend I plant each tree?
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm do you have hard water? If so, what do you do to the citrus trees to protect from from all the salt?
@@pubdefendr It depends on the tree size. For citrus you can find semi-dwarf and dwarfing root stocks which grow at different rates. For a semi-dwarf tree I would suggest being at least 6-8 feet from the fence if you can in order to give the roots space to grow and a canopy to develop. You can get a bit closer for dwarf trees. Just keep in mind, block fences radiate a lot of heat and can damage or kill a tree. Especially young ones, so be sure to paint that trunk either way. We use IV Organics 3-in1 Trunk Guard for our young trees and I would highly recommend that stuff (use our discount code, EONFARM, at checkout if you end up doing that).
Great job, irrigation technique is very reasonable. Your videos are very useful and interesting. By the way What are your water source in that desert. Love from Kurdistan , good luck.
Glad you enjoyed this one Fakhradin. We use well water here on the farm, so it comes from ground water beneath us.
Hi there! Could you please put a link to the shovel/spade you use on your Amazon link? or let me know the name? Thank you!
That shovel is referred to as a drain spade or sometimes a sharp shooter. I'll link to a similar one on Amazon for you here;
amzn.to/3EzAs7Q
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Thank you!
How do you deal with ants over there? In the desert they really go for the fruit at this time of year.
Yeah, that's always a challenge. Generally we don't worry too much about the ants on the fruit as they're usually after fruit that is already broken open (birds pecking it, etc). That being said, tree tanglefoot is the best thing we've found to keep them from getting up into the tree to get to the fruit.
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You fed that guys arm to your pigs!
We were testing the theory that they would literally eat a human if they had the chance. 😉
I like Berkshire and Durocs pigs. But they cost. 😮
Berks and Durocs really are a good breeds for a heavy, meat pig, but they don't come cheap!
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Hi Valerie, glad you enjoyed this one!
These look like 16 hour days.
These days they all feel that way. Looking forward to a bit of a break after turkey processing day next month!
just eat the luffa gourds while they're young.
We've had a few folks suggest that, but haven't tried it yet. Have you had them before?
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm part of the filipino diet. we eat them on a regular basis.
@@franzb69 ah, ok. We had a visitor on the old farm from the Philippines who taught us how to properly eat moringa bean pods. Another one we had pretty much given up on until we were taught the right way to eat them!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm lol. moringa pods are eaten when they're young and tender. the luffa gourds are good to eat when they're around the size of a cucumber or a little bigger, before they start getting tough.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm the moringa pods and the luffa gourds are good stir fried or in soups.