We've had some 100F+ temps here in the Pasadena area, too. Of course, nothing like your 115F+ temps, but it's still stressing the green things. Wishing you both and all of your feathers and green babies the best during this hot spell.
I just saw the national weather forecast on Fox and you folks out west are in for blistering hot weather. I'm glad that you prepared your irrigation so well - the trees will appreciate it and should give you a little bow when you walk by.
You folks have inspired me....I have been doing Monthly Updates to all of our followers on Facebook ! I will admit tho .....I am not much of producers as you folks. You can tell your son I admire his fortitude for pursuing a career at this time in technology. I seemed to have gotten out of I.T. at a good time....before it hit the fan....hence.... my use of technology is the furthest from my desire....like a retired plumber......the last thing they wanna do is fix his own leaky faucet !
Hey Dan! Yes, you have a good amount of space on that property of yours still. Austin is doing well. We've discussed several times the need for him to start a "side-hussle" working with end users in the retirement communities that surround him in Surprise. He can easily work from home and help folks who might otherwise struggle with the continuous forward motion of technology. Heck, it's not just retired folks needing that. Most of his own generation still struggles with basic things like Excel.
As always the trees are gorgeous. I found the answer from a farmer who grows citrus trees in Az Calif. and Florida He grows fruit trees in oregon and Washington. For citrus when the tree has been hit by heat and the leaves and stems are dead cover with shear material and cut the dead off in October or November I'll wait till November. Oh use liquid fertilizer every 10 days or so
In first year plantings I’ve had to construct small shade rings to keep plants from burning. Remember to keep yourself cool and hydrated as best as possible too. If you’re taken out by the heat everything will suffer.
Looks good even great! When the rains come, yo! They're calling for a week or light rain, showers, and possible t-storms. Now, that's wealth. The Concord grape the dog broke off might be coming back. Got the new fig, an everbearing, planted today. The Violette added over a foot of new growth, but the Columbian blackberry, in the same patch, does not like the furnace blasts and smoke from the fires (Pinnacle is 15 or so miles NE of here). hasta, kids!
Your plants are looking great despite the AZ heat waves. Love the integrated drone footage as well. My citrus are struggling with the heat but yours look like they're thriving. I've notice my potted trees and shrubs do worse than in ground plants even though i can move them into the shade if needed and potted plants require more babying.
Hey Anthony. Glad you're enjoying that drone footage. We're looking forward to seeing the progression as the farm continues to take shape. We've always seen the same issues with potted plants. It's one of the reasons we shy away from anything that can't survive all of our seasons in the ground. The heat of summer is just unbearable for most living things, and potted trees are completely dependent on us to keep them alive. We have found that the large, heavy concrete pots seem to help. Our potted apple tree still struggles on the hottest days, but it has survived 3 summers now and keeps hanging in there. The potted roses in the same style pot are also doing well. These are all in full sun too.
Just a heads up we live in Redding Ca which is similar to AZ and we get sun Burn on our fruit trees that where single leader the ones that I cut to bush gives more fruit a chance by the mass of leaves to be protected from the scorching sun👍 Happy growing
I never cease to be amazed at what Nature has achieved in your tender, loving and knowledgeable hands. Can't wait to see how heavy the sorghum seeds. That will indeed be an achievement. Feed for those very vocal, happy, egg laying ladies you have running around. And I even saw a couple of Peter Rabbits 🐰🐇 flitting across the field. Your water bill must be very high. Whatever do the bees feed off?
Hey Carolle! We're really hopeful on that Sorghum as well. It's struggled a bit over the last couple of weeks with the heavy heat and we definitely seeded a little too heavy, so I'm not sure how heavy the crop will be. You'll have to watch the vlog post tomorrow. The thumbnail will give you an idea of what the bees are munching on these days! ;)
Here in south Phoenix I had 5 days at 117 or 118. I also had a few more days at a lower 114. Several of my citrus have had some burning on the leaves and a newly planted lemon is near dead. Otherwise, everything is still looking good. Oh, and my beans died in my garden.
Hey there Norman. Yeah, I imagine it's a bit cooler up your way. Did you see any record heat this summer? I saw a few areas of Canada were well into triple digit temps (Fahrenheit).
Hello from Havasu! We are actually in Havasu Heights, 7 miles north of town and higher at 1500 ft, which puts us at zone 9a or 9b. My husband built me a 40 x 40 enclosed garden with 4 raised beds 4 by 12 ft. I put cattle panel arches over them with shade cloth for mid day sun and soaker hoses. I was able to get over 100 starter plants finally in by mid June, and they are all survived! I am very interested in thr making soil, I got same or similar soil delivered and then amended. Looking forward to planting trees, have 19 potted in a cooler garden area awaiting fall to plat. Keep the info coming.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Zone 9b/10a but I feel based on the last 5 years it’s more like 10a. We are very close to the Bay not far from the Facebook HQ so it keeps our winters very mild and summers from rarely breaking 100. And it’s far south enough from the fog zone to get enough heat to ripen things like Figs, Pomegranates and other Sub Tropicals. I used to live in San Jose but prefer it here for growing food and living temps. We are on a quarter of an acre and have well water and with an extremely high water table (we only had to dig around 15-20 ft). My neighbor who waters his garden by hand just about everyday says it hasn’t run out in 40+ years so 🤞🏻. Only real downside to this area is the lack of much natural rainfall we probably got similar amounts of rain to you this winter and we haven’t had a measurable drop since early March 😢
Just saw that Seattle and Portland are expecting 115° for the next couple of days. Pretty crazy. Your techniques may be applicable across a much wider region in the coming years. Not even a Lori cameo in this one... you don't leave star players on the bench.
My beans are pretty much toast, my melons barely hanging on. A few sad corn stalks left but sad and so few I don’t imagine they’ll make it. Congrats on that loquat. That’s my dream tree, love them! Doesn’t the water get hot in your bird bath?
Glad to hear you like those drone shots Richard. It really gives a good sense of how much space we're working with and how much space we haven't even touched yet!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I am very interested in your water usage. Last week you mentioned that some trees were taking 60 gal/wk. My weather is the same as yours, and my trees being about 2x-3x as large, demand 120-150 gal/ wk. Can you deliver that much? Thanks, from NV, Rd
None of my garden survived the heat so far. Last year was rough for the carrots and pumpkins and we had very low harvest in September-October. This is going to be a rough summer.
I know how to fight back against the neighbors sheep.....Giraffes! Get yourself a couple giraffes. Youll never worry about those sheep again, i promise. ;)
Oh my goodness, giraffes?? Can you imagine having a couple of those meandering around the desert. So no more sheep, but now a huge animal with an extremely long neck designed for reaching high up into trees. I'm not so sure about this one!! :)
Hey neighbor! Congratulations on your new babies. Figs are really amazing trees for us here in AZ and with a little TLC, you'll have more fruit than you can deal with in a few years! Well, we seem to always find ways to deal with them. :)
Looking good! Great work as usual! :)......We are in the high desert of Southern Ca and to keep our chickens and quail cool we have misters in their pens/runs. They love it and never over heat even when it gets up to 120 like last week! They never even molt to the extent your birds are either. You might try it? What are your plans for all of the produce all of those trees and plants are going to produce? Going to be a lot of work and more than a full time job to keep up with it all when mature.....
Hey Joel. Great questions/suggestions here. This batch of chickens is right at a year into laying and I'm assuming that molt is occurring because of that as they never molted this past winter. Could be the case, but our last few batches didn't have this molting during the summer either. We do plan on including fruit as one of our cash crops here on the farm. We haven't settled on the exact model we're going to use, but they will definitely be included in our Farm Shares based on the season. There are a few U-pick operations around town that do pretty well, but I'm not sure we'll have quite that much production. I suppose we'll have to play that one by ear.
Great job guys with the farm. But my advice to you is to try and build your farm in such a way to leverage the existing shade and wind breaks you have created , whatever micro climate you have I think you will have more success if you build next to that first. Sure the aesthetics have to be sacrificed to do that, but I fear that the first big dust storm you have will devastate all your great hard work.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm i will cross my fingers and toes for you that you never have a severe adverse event while your trees try to get themselves established. Have you thought about something like date palms for wind breaks? I know fruiting date palms will cost too much, but seedlings are pretty much free , even though you only have a 1 in 100 chance of getting a good fruiting one
@@mike_au we've had a few folks suggest date palms before. I hadn't considered them as a windbreak though. From what I've seen they can be a bit finicky when it comes to fruiting, so it would be dedicated to a windbreak. We have considered pomegranates as well. They bush out and can form large hedges in just a few years.
what are the tips and tricks to get fig trees going? i've had this 4 foot stick in the ground a couple years and it pushes out a few leaves and a few figs every year but literally lost all it's leaves last week i think i'm over watering it. it was doing way better in the nursery pot before i planted it lol
Everything looks great! Im surprised you arent getting any sunburn like we are on the leaves. Most of my peach trees especially are sunburned on their leaves.
That Columbian is hanging in there so far and it looks like it will be a solid option for you in 9a. But if you don't already have either a Prime Ark or Triple Crown those are EXCELLENT choices as well.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Thank you for the suggestions! I’ve been planning on putting berries down for a while but a few locals told me that I could be wasting my time. I’m optimistic, seeing what you have going. Gonna see if I can find roots for either 🤗
Do your chickens have a problem with mites with the heat? Just curious cuz my chickens had them bad and one lost most of her feathers. She looked silly, but we got her taken care of.
We live in Fountain Hills and fixing a small area at the side of our house for some fruit trees. When I saw your CZcams on peaches I was surprised cause I thought it is too hot here. Did have a peach tree in San Jose, CA with really good peaches when we were able to get them before our Lab or the squirrels got them. What is the farm grower in Laveen’s name. Thanks for replying to my comment. Love you CZcams series. Nancy Hinkston
Is at the farmers market you can buy peach trees? What type of peach do you recommend and can you just have one or do you have to have at least two? Thanks. Nancy
Very positive video. I had several fruit trees planted on June 16th, probably about the worst day of the year. Their first week was 115-117F temps. 4 of them have yellow leaves with some scorch marks, but I think they'll recover. 3 others though, their leaves are completely dry. I'm uncertain if I can recover them. On the black berry breeds, I haven't had much luck trying to grow any type of berry in valley suburbia though I want to keep trying. Do you have a recommendation on where to pick up a Triple Crown or Prime-Ark?
Hey there Rob. Yeah, this time of year the only thing you can really plant with a high probability of success is sweet potato (or Bermuda grass I suppose!). Hopefully those remaining trees will hang in there for you. I'm not sure you'll find the blackberries right now, but it's not a good time to bring them onto your property. Even if they are well shaded, potted trees really struggle and a new blackberry would do the same. Once we get into Fall you'll be able to find them online again. Usually Raintree, Stark Brothers and several others will have some options for you.
If you've ever driven past a field of sorghum or Milo when fields next to it are worked you will remember how much cooler it becomes next to the sorghum or anything with leaves shading the ground. It will literally be 15 degrees cooler
How often do you water your trees? I live in Glendale AZ and never know if I am wasting water or not. I end up waiting until I see wilting before I water again but I feel that stresses the trees. I understand that our watering needs can be different because of soil conditions but would love to know your scheduling.
We are about 5 miles north of Duane. We water a gallon a minute for 2 hours around each tree once a week. We have shortened it to about every 4 days with the heat.
North East and Kev Tom thank you both. I will have to research how much my drip puts out and use according. I try to leave the drip on 5 to 6 hours when my timer works. Just took it off the timer since it doesn't water the amount of time I set it for. I will just have to use my phone timer to tell me when to shut it off.
Hey there Afubwa. That is tree trunk paint that is applied to protect the trunks of young trees from the sun. I'll link a video here that we discuss the reason we use it; czcams.com/video/WVh_IqHbXs0/video.html
We have automated irrigation in place for all of our fruit trees and hand water a few areas. The water itself comes from a private well. I'll link to a video we did a while back explaining our water situation here; czcams.com/video/mD-ucHVNseE/video.html
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I actually found the video where you went into detail on how your irrigation system works after I asked that. Pretty interesting and slightly daunting but then it's a farm in a desert so it would have to be. Thank you. I'm a food gardener in a wet winter dry summer area that seems to be getting drier in the summer of late, so I've been getting more interested in how people in water-restricted environments grow food in order to maybe incorporate a few ideas into my own summer garden. I'm on a much smaller scale, in a much cooler less dry area, and I'm thinking oyas and porous spikes with plastic bottle reservoirs on large individual plants plus some continued hand watering. The idea is to improve my yield without watering way more, as I don't think my tomatoes and cucumbers are getting enough, reliable enough water.
We've had some 100F+ temps here in the Pasadena area, too. Of course, nothing like your 115F+ temps, but it's still stressing the green things. Wishing you both and all of your feathers and green babies the best during this hot spell.
I just saw the national weather forecast on Fox and you folks out west are in for blistering hot weather. I'm glad that you prepared your irrigation so well - the trees will appreciate it and should give you a little bow when you walk by.
You folks have inspired me....I have been doing Monthly Updates to all of our followers on Facebook ! I will admit tho .....I am not much of producers as you folks. You can tell your son I admire his fortitude for pursuing a career at this time in technology. I seemed to have gotten out of I.T. at a good time....before it hit the fan....hence.... my use of technology is the furthest from my desire....like a retired plumber......the last thing they wanna do is fix his own leaky faucet !
Hey Dan! Yes, you have a good amount of space on that property of yours still. Austin is doing well. We've discussed several times the need for him to start a "side-hussle" working with end users in the retirement communities that surround him in Surprise. He can easily work from home and help folks who might otherwise struggle with the continuous forward motion of technology. Heck, it's not just retired folks needing that. Most of his own generation still struggles with basic things like Excel.
Apple trees seem very happy with the sandy desert soil.
As always the trees are gorgeous. I found the answer from a farmer who grows citrus trees in Az Calif. and Florida He grows fruit trees in oregon and Washington. For citrus when the tree has been hit by heat and the leaves and stems are dead cover with shear material and cut the dead off in October or November I'll wait till November. Oh use liquid fertilizer every 10 days or so
In first year plantings I’ve had to construct small shade rings to keep plants from burning. Remember to keep yourself cool and hydrated as best as possible too. If you’re taken out by the heat everything will suffer.
Looks good even great! When the rains come, yo! They're calling for a week or light rain, showers, and possible t-storms. Now, that's wealth. The Concord grape the dog broke off might be coming back. Got the new fig, an everbearing, planted today. The Violette added over a foot of new growth, but the Columbian blackberry, in the same patch, does not like the furnace blasts and smoke from the fires (Pinnacle is 15 or so miles NE of here). hasta, kids!
All I can say is, Wow and thank you for sharing.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm they are doing great, thanks to last weeks rain. Fingers crossed🤞🏽that this week we will get some more rain.
Your plants are looking great despite the AZ heat waves. Love the integrated drone footage as well. My citrus are struggling with the heat but yours look like they're thriving. I've notice my potted trees and shrubs do worse than in ground plants even though i can move them into the shade if needed and potted plants require more babying.
Hey Anthony. Glad you're enjoying that drone footage. We're looking forward to seeing the progression as the farm continues to take shape. We've always seen the same issues with potted plants. It's one of the reasons we shy away from anything that can't survive all of our seasons in the ground. The heat of summer is just unbearable for most living things, and potted trees are completely dependent on us to keep them alive. We have found that the large, heavy concrete pots seem to help. Our potted apple tree still struggles on the hottest days, but it has survived 3 summers now and keeps hanging in there. The potted roses in the same style pot are also doing well. These are all in full sun too.
My 1st year Florida Prince from Reed is hanging in there!
Really like the aerial view....I can better appreciate the large area and all the work you've put in. Great Job.
Glad you're liking that Richard. It gives a good perspective on things and we're looking forward to seeing how that changes over time.
4:15 Hahaha... at first I thought those chicken noises were coyotes yipping off in the distance!
Just a heads up we live in Redding Ca which is similar to AZ and we get sun Burn on our fruit trees that where single leader the ones that I cut to bush gives more fruit a chance by the mass of leaves to be protected from the scorching sun👍
Happy growing
I never cease to be amazed at what Nature has achieved in your tender, loving and knowledgeable hands. Can't wait to see how heavy the sorghum seeds. That will indeed be an achievement. Feed for those very vocal, happy, egg laying ladies you have running around. And I even saw a couple of Peter Rabbits 🐰🐇 flitting across the field. Your water bill must be very high. Whatever do the bees feed off?
Hey Carolle! We're really hopeful on that Sorghum as well. It's struggled a bit over the last couple of weeks with the heavy heat and we definitely seeded a little too heavy, so I'm not sure how heavy the crop will be. You'll have to watch the vlog post tomorrow. The thumbnail will give you an idea of what the bees are munching on these days! ;)
COME ON MONSOONS!!!!!
Yes, we need to all agree and cross everything to bring that rain!!!!
love seeing this!
Here in south Phoenix I had 5 days at 117 or 118. I also had a few more days at a lower 114. Several of my citrus have had some burning on the leaves and a newly planted lemon is near dead. Otherwise, everything is still looking good. Oh, and my beans died in my garden.
My beans are dead too 😔 hello from Laveen!
Looking good.
I love to see what you have tried and have achieve, keep up the good work, wish I had some of your heat I am in Canada
Hey there Norman. Yeah, I imagine it's a bit cooler up your way. Did you see any record heat this summer? I saw a few areas of Canada were well into triple digit temps (Fahrenheit).
Hello from Havasu! We are actually in Havasu Heights, 7 miles north of town and higher at 1500 ft, which puts us at zone 9a or 9b. My husband built me a 40 x 40 enclosed garden with 4 raised beds 4 by 12 ft. I put cattle panel arches over them with shade cloth for mid day sun and soaker hoses. I was able to get over 100 starter plants finally in by mid June, and they are all survived!
I am very interested in thr making soil, I got same or similar soil delivered and then amended.
Looking forward to planting trees, have 19 potted in a cooler garden area awaiting fall to plat. Keep the info coming.
Violette de Bordeaux for me is one of my fastest growing fig varieties in the Bay Area.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Zone 9b/10a but I feel based on the last 5 years it’s more like 10a. We are very close to the Bay not far from the Facebook HQ so it keeps our winters very mild and summers from rarely breaking 100. And it’s far south enough from the fog zone to get enough heat to ripen things like Figs, Pomegranates and other Sub Tropicals. I used to live in San Jose but prefer it here for growing food and living temps.
We are on a quarter of an acre and have well water and with an extremely high water table (we only had to dig around 15-20 ft). My neighbor who waters his garden by hand just about everyday says it hasn’t run out in 40+ years so 🤞🏻.
Only real downside to this area is the lack of much natural rainfall we probably got similar amounts of rain to you this winter and we haven’t had a measurable drop since early March 😢
Just saw that Seattle and Portland are expecting 115° for the next couple of days. Pretty crazy. Your techniques may be applicable across a much wider region in the coming years.
Not even a Lori cameo in this one... you don't leave star players on the bench.
There can be more than one star player...
Your fruit trees are looking amazing. I'm impressed with the amount of growth.
They're hanging in there. We have a mini-update on a few trees tomorrow, but for the most part they're pushing through the heat well.
My beans are pretty much toast, my melons barely hanging on. A few sad corn stalks left but sad and so few I don’t imagine they’ll make it. Congrats on that loquat. That’s my dream tree, love them! Doesn’t the water get hot in your bird bath?
The drone shots are Great.
Your Farm is looking Great.
Glad to hear you like those drone shots Richard. It really gives a good sense of how much space we're working with and how much space we haven't even touched yet!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm
I am very interested in your water usage.
Last week you mentioned that some trees were taking 60 gal/wk.
My weather is the same as yours, and my trees being about 2x-3x as large, demand 120-150 gal/ wk.
Can you deliver that much?
Thanks, from NV,
Rd
None of my garden survived the heat so far. Last year was rough for the carrots and pumpkins and we had very low harvest in September-October. This is going to be a rough summer.
I know how to fight back against the neighbors sheep.....Giraffes! Get yourself a couple giraffes. Youll never worry about those sheep again, i promise. ;)
Oh my goodness, giraffes?? Can you imagine having a couple of those meandering around the desert. So no more sheep, but now a huge animal with an extremely long neck designed for reaching high up into trees. I'm not so sure about this one!! :)
hello from down the road. I just planted 2 figs and found you when researching fig trees in AZ. Will buy the bags for the fruit. Thx
Hey neighbor! Congratulations on your new babies. Figs are really amazing trees for us here in AZ and with a little TLC, you'll have more fruit than you can deal with in a few years! Well, we seem to always find ways to deal with them. :)
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm 🌧🌧🌧🌧⛈⛈!!!!!!!
Looking good! Great work as usual! :)......We are in the high desert of Southern Ca and to keep our chickens and quail cool we have misters in their pens/runs. They love it and never over heat even when it gets up to 120 like last week! They never even molt to the extent your birds are either. You might try it? What are your plans for all of the produce all of those trees and plants are going to produce? Going to be a lot of work and more than a full time job to keep up with it all when mature.....
Hey Joel. Great questions/suggestions here. This batch of chickens is right at a year into laying and I'm assuming that molt is occurring because of that as they never molted this past winter. Could be the case, but our last few batches didn't have this molting during the summer either. We do plan on including fruit as one of our cash crops here on the farm. We haven't settled on the exact model we're going to use, but they will definitely be included in our Farm Shares based on the season. There are a few U-pick operations around town that do pretty well, but I'm not sure we'll have quite that much production. I suppose we'll have to play that one by ear.
Great job guys with the farm. But my advice to you is to try and build your farm in such a way to leverage the existing shade and wind breaks you have created , whatever micro climate you have I think you will have more success if you build next to that first. Sure the aesthetics have to be sacrificed to do that, but I fear that the first big dust storm you have will devastate all your great hard work.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm i will cross my fingers and toes for you that you never have a severe adverse event while your trees try to get themselves established. Have you thought about something like date palms for wind breaks? I know fruiting date palms will cost too much, but seedlings are pretty much free , even though you only have a 1 in 100 chance of getting a good fruiting one
@@mike_au we've had a few folks suggest date palms before. I hadn't considered them as a windbreak though. From what I've seen they can be a bit finicky when it comes to fruiting, so it would be dedicated to a windbreak. We have considered pomegranates as well. They bush out and can form large hedges in just a few years.
100+ degrees already? I am impressed that you can keep anything growing.
Life will find a way
-JP Nublar
Today reached over 113* in the high dry desert of Northern Nevada 🥵🥵👩🌾. Love your farm❣️
what are the tips and tricks to get fig trees going? i've had this 4 foot stick in the ground a couple years and it pushes out a few leaves and a few figs every year but literally lost all it's leaves last week i think i'm over watering it. it was doing way better in the nursery pot before i planted it lol
How do you determine each tree's water needs? Soil moisture sensors, evapotranspiration?
I can't help it.. when I look at that place all I can see is Propagative Material, I want to go over there and pillage the place.... Good Job Folks
Reid, you know you'll always be welcome come pruning season!
Everything looks great! Im surprised you arent getting any sunburn like we are on the leaves. Most of my peach trees especially are sunburned on their leaves.
For some reason I cant see your whole reply to reply to it lol.
It cuts off at “Where…
Everything looks happy out there considering the high temps. I’ve been looking for a sturdy blackberry for 9a. Gonna try the Columbian 🌱
That Columbian is hanging in there so far and it looks like it will be a solid option for you in 9a. But if you don't already have either a Prime Ark or Triple Crown those are EXCELLENT choices as well.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Thank you for the suggestions! I’ve been planning on putting berries down for a while but a few locals told me that I could be wasting my time. I’m optimistic, seeing what you have going. Gonna see if I can find roots for either 🤗
Do your chickens have a problem with mites with the heat? Just curious cuz my chickens had them bad and one lost most of her feathers. She looked silly, but we got her taken care of.
I didn’t realize you can grow peaches here in AZ. What type of peaches?
I’d also like to know. Our local farmers market in Laveen has excellent peaches. The soft ones not the hard ones
We live in Fountain Hills and fixing a small area at the side of our house for some fruit trees. When I saw your CZcams on peaches I was surprised cause I thought it is too hot here. Did have a peach tree in San Jose, CA with really good peaches when we were able to get them before our Lab or the squirrels got them. What is the farm grower in Laveen’s name.
Thanks for replying to my comment. Love you CZcams series.
Nancy Hinkston
Is at the farmers market you can buy peach trees? What type of peach do you recommend and can you just have one or do you have to have at least two?
Thanks.
Nancy
Very positive video. I had several fruit trees planted on June 16th, probably about the worst day of the year. Their first week was 115-117F temps. 4 of them have yellow leaves with some scorch marks, but I think they'll recover. 3 others though, their leaves are completely dry. I'm uncertain if I can recover them.
On the black berry breeds, I haven't had much luck trying to grow any type of berry in valley suburbia though I want to keep trying. Do you have a recommendation on where to pick up a Triple Crown or Prime-Ark?
Hey there Rob. Yeah, this time of year the only thing you can really plant with a high probability of success is sweet potato (or Bermuda grass I suppose!). Hopefully those remaining trees will hang in there for you. I'm not sure you'll find the blackberries right now, but it's not a good time to bring them onto your property. Even if they are well shaded, potted trees really struggle and a new blackberry would do the same. Once we get into Fall you'll be able to find them online again. Usually Raintree, Stark Brothers and several others will have some options for you.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Thanks. I'll work them into my fall plans, I think. I plan to expand my backyard 7x10' garden plot to 7x30'.
@@Bateluer they will do really well in cultivated soil
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm my soil is crap from a decade of neglect on my part. Half my project is rebuilding it.
God. Surprised you do so well. Planning to sell mulberries or plants?
Hey Kenneth. We've had several folks ask us to, so we probably will include that as one of the income streams for the farm.
Do you think eventually your farm could become a little micro climate and shave off some degrees during these hot summers?
When the trees around their house mature they will have plenty of shade!
If you've ever driven past a field of sorghum or Milo when fields next to it are worked you will remember how much cooler it becomes next to the sorghum or anything with leaves shading the ground. It will literally be 15 degrees cooler
@@charliemagoo7943 Thats cool, I wanna give it a try. Problem is my climate is much like that of AZ where we dont get rain in the summer.
How often do you water your trees? I live in Glendale AZ and never know if I am wasting water or not. I end up waiting until I see wilting before I water again but I feel that stresses the trees. I understand that our watering needs can be different because of soil conditions but would love to know your scheduling.
I water mine for about 6 hours at a time on a trickle/drip once or twice a week
We are about 5 miles north of Duane. We water a gallon a minute for 2 hours around each tree once a week. We have shortened it to about every 4 days with the heat.
North East and Kev Tom thank you both. I will have to research how much my drip puts out and use according. I try to leave the drip on 5 to 6 hours when my timer works. Just took it off the timer since it doesn't water the amount of time I set it for. I will just have to use my phone timer to tell me when to shut it off.
Air layering? Uhh, what is it?
Do you have any Moringa's
talk about ur water system please
Hey there Alice, great request. We will be doing a full run through of our watering system, from the well to the plants. Hang in there!
What is that looks a white cover on stem and what is for
Hey there Afubwa. That is tree trunk paint that is applied to protect the trunks of young trees from the sun. I'll link a video here that we discuss the reason we use it;
czcams.com/video/WVh_IqHbXs0/video.html
Is that a thornless Jujube?
I believe these all have thorns. We had a thorn-less variety on the old farm that we lost in a wind storm, but I'm pretty sure these all have them.
How are you watering everything?
We have automated irrigation in place for all of our fruit trees and hand water a few areas. The water itself comes from a private well. I'll link to a video we did a while back explaining our water situation here;
czcams.com/video/mD-ucHVNseE/video.html
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I actually found the video where you went into detail on how your irrigation system works after I asked that. Pretty interesting and slightly daunting but then it's a farm in a desert so it would have to be. Thank you.
I'm a food gardener in a wet winter dry summer area that seems to be getting drier in the summer of late, so I've been getting more interested in how people in water-restricted environments grow food in order to maybe incorporate a few ideas into my own summer garden. I'm on a much smaller scale, in a much cooler less dry area, and I'm thinking oyas and porous spikes with plastic bottle reservoirs on large individual plants plus some continued hand watering. The idea is to improve my yield without watering way more, as I don't think my tomatoes and cucumbers are getting enough, reliable enough water.