Hey there Robert! Yes, it's been a joy watching the farm really come to life this Spring. It's the first time we are really getting a feel for the size of harvest we can expect in coming years.
You guys are too funny. You remind me of that "new" employee who even after three years of employment still says, "I'm new here" whenever something goes wrong. I don't think you can still call yourself "newly established" anymore, can you? Lol. Keep up the good work guys.
Thank you so much for the hospitality, you guys are the greatest! I had my first bacon, and boy was that a treat! I am so grateful to have found you guys. For those who have not purchased meats or other items from the farm, get signed up and get on that list. You will be glad you did.
love this channel! i live in Northern norway and there is no chance we can grow what you guys are growing! so thanks for sharing and letting us in on your little adventure
Greenhouse! When in Pennsylvania, we had some figs in large pots. After leaf drop, those went in the cellar till they began to sprout in late spring. If you do this, remember, moisten the soil but not soak it.
Hello Dwayne and Lori I found something that will keep flies away from you. It is hot sauce Tabasco sauce whatever you like because of the vinegar it is great to keep them from flying around you. I have tryed it many times. I love how it works. Love your videos. 😊😊😊
I'm a few weeks behind you, but looking forward to some good peaches too this year. ("Millions of peaches ..." ... cant get that outta my head). My early free stone is Early Elberta ... aka July Kim. My Katy apricots are really close...this week for sure.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm If I recall, you tried peach wine earlier but you'd said it was kind of thin because the fruit had so much water. Are you going to do something to offset that with your apricot wine too? Would love to taste that and the blackberry wine too ... hoping for a wine tasting sometime in the future! Best to you both!!
@@kevincharles112 we're still trying to nail down the right amount of alcohol, acid and back sweetening for the "peach type" wines. Just tried last seasons peach and we went a little heavy on the acid and not enough alcohol, so we're hopeful this apricot wine will finish with the right amount of both. Next time you're here we'll make sure to test a few out!
I am very inspired by your channel. I love the hard work you two put in. I live in a similar hot desert environment and have dead soil with loose sand 8" below surface. But I am slowly trying to revive the soil using kitchen waste, dry leaves etc. No chemical fertilizers at all. I will suggest you grow Neem trees at periphery. It gives good shade and its leaves can be used for mulching and killing bugs.
Glad you're enjoying the content. It sounds like you know just what it's like to face some of the unique challenges desert climates throw our way. There are some advantages too! Thanks for the suggestion on Neem. We've had a few folks suggest the same.
On the peach: It looks JUST like my Desert Gold that I bought from Reid. The Desert Gold has the same blood colored juice like that and the same looking flesh. Mine were about the same size. The only difference that I can tell is that the Desert Gold is not a full-freestone. It is like semi-freestone if that is a thing. I can't separate it as easy as you did in the video. On figs: I just got me first panache fig like two days ago. None of the others are ready so I was shocked to see it drooping down. It was AMAZING. I only have Panache, Kadota, Black Mission, and Black Jack so I haven't tried a large variety. However, it is the best of what I have by far.
Hey Alan. That Panache is definitely one of our top picks. In my opinion it's better than the Violette De Bordeaux which is a very sought after variety.
Our peaches are like golf ball size but they are delicious. We are a few weeks from harvesting enough figs to make some jam. Everything looks great and thank you for sharing.
We had some that were small as well, even with thinning the trees! I just assumed we didn't thin enough! Oh fig jam... it's been awhile since we made some of that, hope you guys enjoy it!
I grow 3 types of figs on my small lot in northern Virginia, the brown turkey (that does not do well in this area), the celeste and the black mission. These two do well if you apply the 6 and pinch pruning method to cause early fruit set.
Wow, I am surprised that Brown Turkey is making it through your winters! I imagine that early fruit set is key for you. One definite advantage we have is that very long growing season for these.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm An elderly Italian immigrant in zone 5 would undercut his figs and bury them each fall in leaves. I think he put a foot of soil and black plastic over that to keep frost out. the last frost date there is 1 June. In April, he dug them up and fertilized and always had a lot of figs. Friends in Jersey didn't bother, but did put a heavy layer of mulch around their trees. niio
@Edge of Nowhere Farm The bark on all of my peach trees starts developing tears and sloughing off. They start leaking sap. My local nursery guy says, the humidity causes all these problems. I don't see anything that looks like fungus.
We were really surprised to see that fig this early. With some late frosts this spring we lost all of the early fruit set, so these only set a few weeks ago.
Ah, man, I was right there with you tasting that fig. Yo, we got 3 ripe Brown Turkey! These started last fall, then stopped till summer. 2 were delicious, the 3rd iffy because birds knocked it off the tree. One that I wanted to get real ripe was in shreds yesterday morning. So, 4 so far and a ton still green. Got to get out the green organza bags (I wanna call them gabanza :) and start to tie one on LOL. Unfortunately, nothing on the other 2 tree, both of which were planted only a year or so ago. The black mission needs serious pruning because it's turned into a shrub. That and the BT get too much shade and have to grow tall to adequate sunlight. The BT has a compost barrel by it which took part of a wheelbarrow of horse manure this morning (she said she hasn't wormed the horses!). The other two will get the same. Hasta, kids! niio
Glad you're seeing a harvest on that BT. It's a solid, figgy tasting fig and a consistent producer from year to year for us. The Black Mission will try to bush out every chance it gets. We pruned away all the low branches every Winter to try and get it to get some height.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I'm up in the air between pruning Mission now, or waiting till leaf drop to take cuttings. The BT is pruned by removing sprouts as they come on. hasta, kids!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm hava harika yaz geldi süper işler yapıyorsunuz tebrikler bir gün türkiyeye gelirseniz muhakkak bekliyorum gelin misafirim olun sevgiler saygılar Eline emeğine sağlık bu güzel video için kolay gelsin hayırlı işler....👍👍👍👍
When you showed the Blackjack fig I immediately thought “ they’re good but a little too “figgy” for my preference” then you called them figgy, 😂 It’s definitely a hard to describe taste. I have a couple of them on my place and I eat them if the birds don’t beat me too it but prefer the berry types.
We're right there with you on preference. We have a pretty good mix of both berry and "figgy" type figs, but our favorites all fall on the berry side. I will say, the Panache is very hard to beat and should do really well for you in your next of the woods.
Ive grown rampicante before and they are great. Its actually the only squash I have successfully grown. If you harvest them early they are like a summer squash and if you leave them on the vine they can harden and keep for a long time like winter squash.
Glad to hear you're seeing success with these as well. We had not tried them before and have been very pleased with how well they're producing. So far we've only had one get a bit bigger than we planned and I can see how easy they can become winter squash.
The birds are horrendous, as usual. We use the 6x9 bags on the peaches and other larger fruit and it does a fair job. We didn't have much luck with them on the old farm, but they saved several of our peaches on the 2 younger trees that we didn't want to net this year.
Hello in Namibia!! We have a few videos on pruning grapevines. I'll link to the last 2 we've done for our current set of grapevines; First year; ua-cam.com/video/FBgw2AIg0fo/v-deo.html Second year; ua-cam.com/video/SA_nqwL5OFY/v-deo.html More mature vines on the old farm back in 2020; ua-cam.com/video/H5UDUehYco8/v-deo.html
That peach looked amazing!! Question for you. We have Anna and Golden Dorsett apples. What's another variety we could plant to extend our apple harvest?
There are really only 2 other varieties that we have had any success with, Tropic Sweet (need to get from Reid) and Ein Shemer. The Ein Shemer is the only one not ripe at the exact same time, but it's within a week or two and the fruit quality leaves a LOT to be desired.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm oh I see. Ok I may just stick with the 4 trees we have. I would like to add two Florida Prince though. Unless you have a new favorite? Lol
@@hiddenvalleyfarmstead for peaches, we tried our first Texas King peaches this past week and they are right up there with the Florda Prince. I would say it's probably our top pick given it's actually free stone, where the Florda Prince is clingstone.
Did you go back to using organza bags? I was curious if the purple or colored ones seem to work better? If I recall you started netting your trees because the birds were still attacking your fruit through the bags? I had the same issue with the white bags the birds were just poking through on my tropic snow peach. I even got heavy duty canvas organza bags and they still poked right through them and got every single peach last year. I hate netting it is such a pain and the net catches on everything but is the only thing that seems to work.
Hey Michael. No, we still resort to netting trees whenever we can. This year we had 2 varieties that are fruiting for the first time and still putting on strong growth, so we didn't want to net them. We were pleasantly surprised with how well they fared with the bags, but we still lost several to birds. Unfortunately, netting really is the way to go!
Hey Sami. No, we don't spray any of our trees. Not even with dormancy oils. It's one of the advantages to living in a hot, dry climate. Not much survives the heat of summer!
Hey Todd! We had our first Texas King peach this past week and Lori and I both agree it's now our top pick. It's just as good as the FlordaPrince, but freestone and at least 50% larger.
@@larrypollman5243 no, it's the Texas King that we bought from RSI Growers. It's a newer variety that he's testing out with the folks that bred it. Not sure he has them available to the public yet.
Duane! I need advice...my one and only old peach tree broke in a wind storm. Can I rescue it by trying to root the branches? I don't have anything to graft it to.
Oh man, that is a bummer! I wouldn't bother with rooting out a cutting. You may get it to take, but it won't grow well on it's own roots, especially in our soil here. Is it salvageable at all? Anything left above the graft point?
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm the live part is a big branch with hundreds of new growth branches. the trunk appears dead from prior severe sun scald. it looks like a semi dwarf. it currently in a big water livestock tank, looking like a happy tree. no signs of shock or wilt.
I think we have the Prime Ark in 5 different spots right now, but most of the harvest comes from the original planting. We also have a Columbian Giant, Loch Ness and an unknown/thorn riddled variety that was supposed to be a Triple Crown.
I had to go back and track this one down. The title didn't say anything about the Texas King as we were focusing on the Peacotum in the same episode. It's towards the end of this one; ua-cam.com/video/t8SM4t-0y0U/v-deo.htmlsi=vgftP3pxrrTGngZb
Hi Duane, do you sell grafted pluot plant. I heard from AMZ that they got theirs from you. Please let me know. I am interested of buying one. Thank you.
Hey Lovelin. I'm not sure if he's still grafting them, but the trees we have here were grafted from cuttings on our old farm by Reid at RSI Growers. That's where Aaron bought several of his trees.
does that tangle foot keep ants from climbing the tree and attacking the fruit? our biggest issue for our figs is that the ants in the yard get into the eye and they make the figs start fermenting......i cant tell you how many ive picked that looked perfect only to bite into it and get a shot of vinegar, its horrid
Yes, Brendan it does work well. It's one of many reasons we try to train our fig trees to a single trunk, so we can resort to Tanglefoot if needed. Just be sure to wrap the tree with flagging tape or something similar before applying it.
You don't have any pests visiting your plants? They always look perfect. I live in town in a semiarid climate. I battle pests every year and end up losing.
We definitely have our battles with pests! We've battled squash bugs, grasshoppers, ants, birds, ground squirrels.... We just have so many things planted that we thankfully still get some too!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I struggle every year with aphids and those little white bugs/flies. The white flies are off the charts. They repopulate faster than rabbits. I try to use organic, mostly use DE but it cannot get a good coat up underneath the leaves and onto every part of the plant and washes off or blows off pretty quickly.
No, we haven't gone down that rabbit hole, at least not yet (lots of legal hoops to jump through). We do have wine tastings during some of our farm tours though, so you'll have to drop in on one of those and I'll make sure you get a few sips!
It's called Healthy Farm Living. We haven't posted over there in a while as the farm has ramped up. I'll link to it for you here; www.youtube.com/@HealthyFarmLiving
We were on the fence this year and decided not to have our U-pick up and running. Next year we definitely will though. If you're here in town, be sure to join our customer email list through the website as it's the only way we'll market that.
Everything is thriving. A beautiful environment for all.
Hey there Robert! Yes, it's been a joy watching the farm really come to life this Spring. It's the first time we are really getting a feel for the size of harvest we can expect in coming years.
You guys are too funny. You remind me of that "new" employee who even after three years of employment still says, "I'm new here" whenever something goes wrong. I don't think you can still call yourself "newly established" anymore, can you? Lol. Keep up the good work guys.
I think you're probably right. We have folks ask us what it's like to be a commercial farm and we still can't seem to admit that's the case!
I can't wait to plant peaches! I have to slowly condition my husband to the idea. 😂
Maybe sneak one in this Fall and before you know it he'll be a peach fan!
Ooooh a few friends of mine picked up Reid's Big Red, I'm so excited to see how the fruit turns out!
That was a solid choice. The Texas Giant that he's also propagating is ripening for us now and it is fantastic also. HUGE fruit!
Wow! That peach looks amazing and juicy. It's a good life.
It really is a great variety for us here.
I love that dog❤️ she just does her own thing, she also has selective hearing like mine.. she'll come when she's done with whatever she's doing 😂🤣😂🤣
Selective hearing runs rampant around here these days!!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm 😂🤣😂
Thank you so much for the hospitality, you guys are the greatest! I had my first bacon, and boy was that a treat! I am so grateful to have found you guys. For those who have not purchased meats or other items from the farm, get signed up and get on that list. You will be glad you did.
Hey there Pam! It was really great having you guys over. Seeing the girls' eyes light up when they met the Kune Kune pigs was a real joy for us!
love this channel! i live in Northern norway and there is no chance we can grow what you guys are growing! so thanks for sharing and letting us in on your little adventure
Greenhouse! When in Pennsylvania, we had some figs in large pots. After leaf drop, those went in the cellar till they began to sprout in late spring. If you do this, remember, moisten the soil but not soak it.
Oh wow!! I bet it's beautiful there!!
Oh wow, Norway! My goodness, I imagine the view from your front porch looks much different from ours!
I love the photo bomber. 😂🦃
Haha, me, too!
They are a perfect example of why we say somebody is being a turkey when they're messing around!
Excellent video. All fruits are ripping good harvest time. peaches are great color. appreciated showed jujube trees. Both you are great teachers
Glad you saw the Jujube there Abid. Lori made sure I got a good shot of some of the fruit!
Wow, looks absolutely amazing.
This really is a very cool fruit. A bit different from most of the varieties we're used to!
Ecstatic with all the produce your farm is growing. Super exciting stuff!
Thank you so much, we are definitely enjoying how the farm is growing!
Always enjoy your channel - peaches look wonderful!!
Glad you're hanging in there and still enjoying the content!
my favorite way to eat figs, cut in half, slice goats cheese, drizzle of honey, wrap in parma ham and grill
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Ooh, now that sounds FANTASTIC!
Wow! That sounds great. Unfortunately our figs never make it out of the yard. We pick and eat immediately.
@@TheFatTheist I'm the same with my strawberries😂
Hello Dwayne and Lori I found something that will keep flies away from you. It is hot sauce Tabasco sauce whatever you like because of the vinegar it is great to keep them from flying around you. I have tryed it many times. I love how it works. Love your videos. 😊😊😊
Now you have our attention! So do you use it on your skin somehow?
I'm a few weeks behind you, but looking forward to some good peaches too this year. ("Millions of peaches ..." ... cant get that outta my head). My early free stone is Early Elberta ... aka July Kim. My Katy apricots are really close...this week for sure.
We were singing that at lunch today after picking peaches this morning and looking at all of them we need to process and freeze this afternoon!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm If I recall, you tried peach wine earlier but you'd said it was kind of thin because the fruit had so much water. Are you going to do something to offset that with your apricot wine too? Would love to taste that and the blackberry wine too ... hoping for a wine tasting sometime in the future! Best to you both!!
@@kevincharles112 we're still trying to nail down the right amount of alcohol, acid and back sweetening for the "peach type" wines. Just tried last seasons peach and we went a little heavy on the acid and not enough alcohol, so we're hopeful this apricot wine will finish with the right amount of both. Next time you're here we'll make sure to test a few out!
Wasn’t sure if you had kept Cuddle Tom. Love the updates!
We definitely still have Cuddle, he is so cool and will be with us until he isn't!
I am very inspired by your channel. I love the hard work you two put in. I live in a similar hot desert environment and have dead soil with loose sand 8" below surface. But I am slowly trying to revive the soil using kitchen waste, dry leaves etc. No chemical fertilizers at all.
I will suggest you grow Neem trees at periphery. It gives good shade and its leaves can be used for mulching and killing bugs.
Glad you're enjoying the content. It sounds like you know just what it's like to face some of the unique challenges desert climates throw our way. There are some advantages too! Thanks for the suggestion on Neem. We've had a few folks suggest the same.
On the peach: It looks JUST like my Desert Gold that I bought from Reid. The Desert Gold has the same blood colored juice like that and the same looking flesh. Mine were about the same size. The only difference that I can tell is that the Desert Gold is not a full-freestone. It is like semi-freestone if that is a thing. I can't separate it as easy as you did in the video.
On figs: I just got me first panache fig like two days ago. None of the others are ready so I was shocked to see it drooping down. It was AMAZING. I only have Panache, Kadota, Black Mission, and Black Jack so I haven't tried a large variety. However, it is the best of what I have by far.
Hey Alan. That Panache is definitely one of our top picks. In my opinion it's better than the Violette De Bordeaux which is a very sought after variety.
Our peaches are like golf ball size but they are delicious. We are a few weeks from harvesting enough figs to make some jam. Everything looks great and thank you for sharing.
We had some that were small as well, even with thinning the trees! I just assumed we didn't thin enough! Oh fig jam... it's been awhile since we made some of that, hope you guys enjoy it!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm we love fig jam and can’t wait to make a batch hopefully real soon.
I grow 3 types of figs on my small lot in northern Virginia, the brown turkey (that does not do well in this area), the celeste and the black mission. These two do well if you apply the 6 and pinch pruning method to cause early fruit set.
Wow, I am surprised that Brown Turkey is making it through your winters! I imagine that early fruit set is key for you. One definite advantage we have is that very long growing season for these.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm An elderly Italian immigrant in zone 5 would undercut his figs and bury them each fall in leaves. I think he put a foot of soil and black plastic over that to keep frost out. the last frost date there is 1 June. In April, he dug them up and fertilized and always had a lot of figs. Friends in Jersey didn't bother, but did put a heavy layer of mulch around their trees. niio
All of your fruit looks delicious,
I wish mine did.
Here in Louisiana, it's very humid. Peach trees have a hard time staying healthy.
Hey Daryl. Do you have a lot of fungal disease on the trees and plants from the moisture?
@Edge of Nowhere Farm The bark on all of my peach trees starts developing tears and sloughing off. They start leaking sap. My local nursery guy says,
the humidity causes all these problems. I don't see anything that looks like fungus.
@@darylpas2209 well, that's a real bummer. Peaches are really hard to beat in the Spring.
Fantastic figs and peaches :) (Sorry, I'm simply unable to do emojis on your vlog?!?) Thanks for sharing!!
We were really surprised to see that fig this early. With some late frosts this spring we lost all of the early fruit set, so these only set a few weeks ago.
drippin
no doubt!
Ah, man, I was right there with you tasting that fig.
Yo, we got 3 ripe Brown Turkey! These started last fall, then stopped till summer. 2 were delicious, the 3rd iffy because birds knocked it off the tree. One that I wanted to get real ripe was in shreds yesterday morning. So, 4 so far and a ton still green. Got to get out the green organza bags (I wanna call them gabanza :) and start to tie one on LOL. Unfortunately, nothing on the other 2 tree, both of which were planted only a year or so ago. The black mission needs serious pruning because it's turned into a shrub. That and the BT get too much shade and have to grow tall to adequate sunlight. The BT has a compost barrel by it which took part of a wheelbarrow of horse manure this morning (she said she hasn't wormed the horses!). The other two will get the same. Hasta, kids! niio
Glad you're seeing a harvest on that BT. It's a solid, figgy tasting fig and a consistent producer from year to year for us. The Black Mission will try to bush out every chance it gets. We pruned away all the low branches every Winter to try and get it to get some height.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I'm up in the air between pruning Mission now, or waiting till leaf drop to take cuttings. The BT is pruned by removing sprouts as they come on. hasta, kids!
Wowwwww... The grapes hanging behind is awesome 😋😋😋. Right fm planting, fertigation, pruning then fruiting.. Cn u pl guide in short.
Just to confirm, are you wanting me to explain how we plant, fertilize, prune and pick peaches?
Eline emeğine sağlık bu güzel video için kolay gelsin hayırlı işler....👍👍👍👍
Mesut'a teşekkürler. Şu anda orada senin için hava nasıl? Sizin için yaz sıcağı gelmedi mi?
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm hava harika yaz geldi süper işler yapıyorsunuz tebrikler bir gün türkiyeye gelirseniz muhakkak bekliyorum gelin misafirim olun sevgiler saygılar Eline emeğine sağlık bu güzel video için kolay gelsin hayırlı işler....👍👍👍👍
When you showed the Blackjack fig I immediately thought “ they’re good but a little too “figgy” for my preference” then you called them figgy, 😂 It’s definitely a hard to describe taste. I have a couple of them on my place and I eat them if the birds don’t beat me too it but prefer the berry types.
We're right there with you on preference. We have a pretty good mix of both berry and "figgy" type figs, but our favorites all fall on the berry side. I will say, the Panache is very hard to beat and should do really well for you in your next of the woods.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Yes, Panache is my favorite, I have a couple of them, lol
Ive grown rampicante before and they are great. Its actually the only squash I have successfully grown. If you harvest them early they are like a summer squash and if you leave them on the vine they can harden and keep for a long time like winter squash.
Glad to hear you're seeing success with these as well. We had not tried them before and have been very pleased with how well they're producing. So far we've only had one get a bit bigger than we planned and I can see how easy they can become winter squash.
Lori....LOVE your Edge of Nowhere T-shirt!!! Uh...Duane....ummm....never mind!
Yeah, so valid shot there. Thank goodness Lori represents us both well!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm, I may just have to buy you an Edge of Nowhere Farm t-shirt and mail it to you. LOL! What size do you wear?
@@taylorvanbuskirk8040 depends who you ask. My boss says a kid's XL!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm, LOL!
Looks so tasty!!!! Birds have ravaged my peaches this year. What size organza bags are you using on your peaches?
The birds are horrendous, as usual. We use the 6x9 bags on the peaches and other larger fruit and it does a fair job. We didn't have much luck with them on the old farm, but they saved several of our peaches on the 2 younger trees that we didn't want to net this year.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Good to know. I will def have those ready for next season.
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Thanks Guys!!
How do you prune grapes. I am in namibia, Southern Africa. We are in the heart of winter. Love the vids❤❤
Hello in Namibia!! We have a few videos on pruning grapevines. I'll link to the last 2 we've done for our current set of grapevines;
First year;
ua-cam.com/video/FBgw2AIg0fo/v-deo.html
Second year;
ua-cam.com/video/SA_nqwL5OFY/v-deo.html
More mature vines on the old farm back in 2020;
ua-cam.com/video/H5UDUehYco8/v-deo.html
That peach looked amazing!!
Question for you. We have Anna and Golden Dorsett apples. What's another variety we could plant to extend our apple harvest?
There are really only 2 other varieties that we have had any success with, Tropic Sweet (need to get from Reid) and Ein Shemer. The Ein Shemer is the only one not ripe at the exact same time, but it's within a week or two and the fruit quality leaves a LOT to be desired.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm oh I see. Ok I may just stick with the 4 trees we have.
I would like to add two Florida Prince though. Unless you have a new favorite? Lol
@@hiddenvalleyfarmstead for peaches, we tried our first Texas King peaches this past week and they are right up there with the Florda Prince. I would say it's probably our top pick given it's actually free stone, where the Florda Prince is clingstone.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm oh that's great advise!! Thank you!!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm any specific rootstock to look of on either?
You know the hairstyle geisha women wear in Japan? They call it "split peach"!
Wait, are you serious? I suppose I see that though!!
Did you go back to using organza bags? I was curious if the purple or colored ones seem to work better? If I recall you started netting your trees because the birds were still attacking your fruit through the bags? I had the same issue with the white bags the birds were just poking through on my tropic snow peach. I even got heavy duty canvas organza bags and they still poked right through them and got every single peach last year. I hate netting it is such a pain and the net catches on everything but is the only thing that seems to work.
Hey Michael. No, we still resort to netting trees whenever we can. This year we had 2 varieties that are fruiting for the first time and still putting on strong growth, so we didn't want to net them. We were pleasantly surprised with how well they fared with the bags, but we still lost several to birds. Unfortunately, netting really is the way to go!
Looks great. Do you spray your peach trees with any insecticide?
Hey Sami. No, we don't spray any of our trees. Not even with dormancy oils. It's one of the advantages to living in a hot, dry climate. Not much survives the heat of summer!
Out of all the peach varieties which is your favorite.
Sorry Duane I misspelled your name in another post
Hey Todd! We had our first Texas King peach this past week and Lori and I both agree it's now our top pick. It's just as good as the FlordaPrince, but freestone and at least 50% larger.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Texas King? Do you mean Florida King peach?
@@larrypollman5243 no, it's the Texas King that we bought from RSI Growers. It's a newer variety that he's testing out with the folks that bred it. Not sure he has them available to the public yet.
Duane! I need advice...my one and only old peach tree broke in a wind storm. Can I rescue it by trying to root the branches? I don't have anything to graft it to.
Oh man, that is a bummer! I wouldn't bother with rooting out a cutting. You may get it to take, but it won't grow well on it's own roots, especially in our soil here. Is it salvageable at all? Anything left above the graft point?
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm the live part is a big branch with hundreds of new growth branches. the trunk appears dead from prior severe sun scald. it looks like a semi dwarf. it currently in a big water livestock tank, looking like a happy tree. no signs of shock or wilt.
@@SG-vu4qy if you decide to root out cuttings, you'll have to let us know how they do once they're planted.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm going for it!
How many blackberry plants do you have?
I think we have the Prime Ark in 5 different spots right now, but most of the harvest comes from the original planting. We also have a Columbian Giant, Loch Ness and an unknown/thorn riddled variety that was supposed to be a Triple Crown.
Hi guys. I seem to recall you posting a video on the Texas king peach. I can no longer find it here. Did you take that video down?
I had to go back and track this one down. The title didn't say anything about the Texas King as we were focusing on the Peacotum in the same episode. It's towards the end of this one;
ua-cam.com/video/t8SM4t-0y0U/v-deo.htmlsi=vgftP3pxrrTGngZb
Thank you!
Hi Duane, do you sell grafted pluot plant. I heard from AMZ that they got theirs from you. Please let me know. I am interested of buying one. Thank you.
Hey Lovelin. I'm not sure if he's still grafting them, but the trees we have here were grafted from cuttings on our old farm by Reid at RSI Growers. That's where Aaron bought several of his trees.
does that tangle foot keep ants from climbing the tree and attacking the fruit? our biggest issue for our figs is that the ants in the yard get into the eye and they make the figs start fermenting......i cant tell you how many ive picked that looked perfect only to bite into it and get a shot of vinegar, its horrid
Yes, Brendan it does work well. It's one of many reasons we try to train our fig trees to a single trunk, so we can resort to Tanglefoot if needed. Just be sure to wrap the tree with flagging tape or something similar before applying it.
You don't have any pests visiting your plants? They always look perfect. I live in town in a semiarid climate. I battle pests every year and end up losing.
We definitely have our battles with pests! We've battled squash bugs, grasshoppers, ants, birds, ground squirrels.... We just have so many things planted that we thankfully still get some too!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I struggle every year with aphids and those little white bugs/flies. The white flies are off the charts. They repopulate faster than rabbits. I try to use organic, mostly use DE but it cannot get a good coat up underneath the leaves and onto every part of the plant and washes off or blows off pretty quickly.
Do you sell your wines? If so...I'd LOVE to buy a bottle of apricot wine. That would be amazing!
No, we haven't gone down that rabbit hole, at least not yet (lots of legal hoops to jump through). We do have wine tastings during some of our farm tours though, so you'll have to drop in on one of those and I'll make sure you get a few sips!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm, that would be fun!
5:19 What's your other channel??
It's called Healthy Farm Living. We haven't posted over there in a while as the farm has ramped up. I'll link to it for you here;
www.youtube.com/@HealthyFarmLiving
Oh oh. Getting the pigs accustomed to the stock trailer is not a good sign for them.
Yeah, you sure called that. We loaded the last round this past Tuesday. I should say they auto-loaded themselves this past Tuesday.
Are you selling your harvest
We were on the fence this year and decided not to have our U-pick up and running. Next year we definitely will though. If you're here in town, be sure to join our customer email list through the website as it's the only way we'll market that.