This aging Master Gardener from Canada really enjoys your channel. A lovely mix of light hearted banter with a scientific, experienced approach to horticulture.
I'm glad you're enjoying the content. We try to keep it fun and still have a little to learn in each episode. As you know being a Master Gardener, there's always something new to learn!
It's a never ending learning journey. The more you know, the more you realize how little you know. I was heavily influenced by English country gardening and soil management traditions. Composting is a big part of that. Completed my Master Gardener training 40 years ago at Washington State University. The first Canadian to do so to my knowledge. Blessings!@@EdgeofNowhereFarm
Thank You for the call out, many don't know but! Were doing research for Texas A&M University on "many" Peach and Nectarine fruit trees here. Amazing what's coming in the future for Arizona
Reid, that Texas King is FANTASTIC! We were very impressed with the fruit quality, taste and size not to mention free stone! It ticked all the boxes for us. BTW, we harvested our first Satlaps this past week and will be featuring that in our next post. That fruit is also very good and we called you out again as the only place to get those!
Does the Texas peach do as well with our hot climate as the Florida Prince does? Reid, you don't have the Texas peach listed on your website, do you have them in stock now or plan to get more in later?
@@flutterby.222 Hopefully Reid will answer on his in-stock status, but I will say the Texas King that we have is growing just as strong as the FlordaPrince on the same root stock. The tree doesn't fruit quite as heavily, but the fruit size is MUCH larger and the quality is just as good if not better.
I can imagine a separate small bed & breakfast inn on your property in the future. The clients would have an ecstatic time enjoying your piece of Heaven and would have some amazing, very fresh meals. Maybe add a couple of horses or donkeys for the kids especially.
Excellent video. Heard new name Peacotum. I bought few apricots to tested today. I did not find any big size of peach in Georgia yet. Both are inspirational for every body. I always waiting for your videos
I love all of the videos and how much you two have taken on besides the orchards. I knew there were bees coming and I was just waiting to get to this video! I have binged all of your videos and FINALLY feel caught up. I just got back today from Walmart with some worms I am excited to put into the compost. Keep the info coming, oh yeah, I'm in Indio, CA so the info is great for my area.
Hey Travis! Glad you're enjoying the content and yes, I imagine you have very similar challenges out in Indio! If you have any questions as we go, just shoot them over!
My 4 year in ground Peacotum is growing so slowly 😆 It's gotten a few to several flowers each of the past three years but never gets pollinated or won't hold fruit. On a high note though my Sweet Treat Pluerry has a hundred fruit and I got to try my first Pluerry 😋 What a treat! They are not yet quite ripe but I've been picking them early because they are already so good 😂 Congratulations on the Peacotum!!!
We're still trying to figure out what to do with that big open hole. If nothing else, it will be a temporary watering hole for the ducks after our monsoon rains!
@EdgeofNowhereFarm what about putting a liner in it to store water? Better stock up on liners so you can make ponds wherever the pigs dig. Haha. Perhaps swales around the property would be an idea?
@@cynthialouw2970 Additional swales are definitely on the agenda. Ponds are very transient unless we want to continually fill them with groundwater, so it's not something we're wanting to pursue.
@EdgeofNowhereFarm yeah. I understand. You would need cover to prevent evaporation. But what about underground storage tanks? I have noticed many of the old houses in our city had underground storage tanks. A neighbour put a concrete slab over his swimming pool to use it as a water storage. Much better use as maintenance is beyond our budget now!!
i really appreciate your t-post pulling footage. still pulling or shall I say digging out mega buried archeological t-posts. that and the getting shoes on challenge with sound effects. thanks for this, the challenge is real and exciting in a kinda twisted waay. keep up the good work. you always make me laugh, in an "I concur" way
That t-post puller is one of my favorite and least favorite tools on the farm. As long as the t-post isn't stuck in caliche, it works fairly well to get it out of the ground. Right there with you on having to chuckle at the "perks" of getting old. We see it more every day and figure it's best to accept and chuckle at it. It's either that or give up and become a couch potato watching the years tick by. Hard pass on that!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm my t-posts are rusted into caliche 3.5' deep around the garden I'm resurrecting. I fear the perimeter fencing is flintstone deep also
WOW! I know you've both worked hard with your peach trees but I really have 'peach envy' watching you 2 eat that huge peach with lovely peach juice running down your chins. 🍑🍑🍑
Do you guys have a smoker for your bees? You will have much calmer bees if you smoke them before getting into the hive. Mine are just as bad, yesterday I was rototilling 200 feet from a row of hives and they kept tagging me, so I ended up putting my inspection jacket on so I could finish, lol. Rubber boots over your pant legs will also help.
That peach was INSANE! I can't believe the size! I might have to stop by and get a few of those trees from Reid in October. I am starting to get a lot of cucumbers now. I pickled 6 jars on Wednesday and will probably do another 8 tomorrow. I think I am going to run out of jars this year.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I totally understand. It was so cold for so long. I got my tomatoes in 6 weeks late and my cucumbers were a few weeks late too. This year I decided to go with all armenian cucumbers because they last longer in the heat than the traditional pickling cucumbers do. They taste great as pickles even though they look a little different. They are also very productive so you might keep them in mind for next year.
Another awesome video with lots of great content! One thing I was curious about as a fellow Apple grower, how is your Golden Dorsett doing thats in a pot? Havent seen it in any videos in awhile. Thanks! And keep up the great job!!
Thanks Eric! The potted apple tree is doing good, it had several pieces of fruit this year. We pruned it heavy this year to re shape it as well as some root pruning. Will try to get a shot of it in an upcoming vlog for you!
Glad you caught that one Chet. I had a co-worker buy that for me when he was traveling and I immediately thought of you when I saw it thinking you would get a kick out of that!
That wallow area looks like it would benefit from a huggle culture with some groundcover. Just think about the fertilizatin for the whole area and the building of uncompacted soil. Just a thought.
I have to admit, I (Duane) was a little disappointed in this one. Not that it's bad, but we have a lot of other fruit that top this one and I really didn't get any peach flavor or texture at all.
do you do any canning of your produce? or do you only freeze them? I try to can whatever I can for long term preservation but I don't have a big garden. I chose canning for much of what I save because of power outages and don't want everything to perish with a long term outage. and the bees will find a way
What kind of treatment keeping ants crawling up fruit trees, what kind are they , and what kind of problems you do have insects with your fruit trees. 🍊🍒🍎
Outside of ants getting into fruit damaged by birds, we don't really have any issues with insects. It's one advantage to having extremely dry weather. If ants become a problem you can use Tree Tanglefoot on the trunk. We've had success with that in the past, especially with smooth trunk trees like figs and apples where the flagging tape (used to protect the trunk from the paste) can fit snugly against the trunk to keep the ants from crawling under the tape.
Boy is that ever the case. I was thinking about that the following day when my ankle was swollen from the stings. Can't imagine that happening to the airways!
Good eye. Yes, we do have 2 varieties of persimmons here on the farm. We planted them just over 2 years ago and they have their first fruit set on them this year. We had one on the old farm that fruited as well, but the birds got to all the fruit during the Summer and we didn't get a harvest from them. We'll have to get a video on them here for you.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarmDid the persimmon trees have good fall foliage color? I’m thinking of getting a Fuyu persimmon. Have you also tried a Spice Zee Nectaplum and a Flavor Delight aprium?
@@stephensauder8954 we've continued to be a bit disappointed with the persimmons. The trees grow pretty slowly and the fruit never makes it through the bird pressure during the summer months. We're holding out hope they get better as they get older. We have both the Spice Zee and the Flavor Delight. No ripe fruit on the Nectaplum yet, so can't say there, but the FD Aprium is FANTASTIC! Much better than traditional apricots IMO.
We have purchased from a few places, but our last bag was from Fertizona. They have a couple of commercial varieties that do really well for us here and remain perennial for us throughout the year. It's a little pricey, but we've been using the same 50# bag for the last 2 years to establish new pasture.
@@suzisaintjames fortunately we have not had to deal with a sting. We are very careful to tap out our shoes before putting them on, never go anywhere without something on our feet, etc.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I've seen video where scorpions can't climb up the sides of Tupperware, so I keep my everyday shoes in a one gallon bucket. My luck is that I'd grab my shoe to shake it and put my fingers right on the scorpion! We don't wear shoes in the house... reduces the grit in the house, so putting them in the bucket saves time and makes me feel safer. In winter, it's so easy to switch from everyday shoes to slippers that are in the bucket. 💖🌞🌵😷
That can definitely be caused by the heat. As long as you're not overwatering (which is pretty hard to do this time of year) it's usually a sign of stress and the heat we're experiencing now is definitely stressful! We're watering our peach trees once/week with about 60 gallons of water and they are hanging in there.
Feeding the bees? Never heard of such a thing. Makes sense, though, considering that there's not much blooming without a lot of native wildflowers growing. That big ol' wallow looks like it desperately wants to be backfilled with mulch, imo. Talk about making topsoil!
Bingo with the feeding of those bees. Not much for them to munch on these days, so this ensures they stay happy. Great suggestion on the wallow. Another suggestion was a huglemound which is similar. Something to hold onto the rainwater when it does occasionally fill.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm How about killing two birds with one stone --- backfill the wallow with mulch and some dirt, and then planting it with native wildflowers? Not only would you be making a crop for the bees to enjoy, but when you put pigs back in that area, there's something for them to root up. A tiny patch of wildflowers would root very deep and help create some wonderful soil. A little Echinacia pallida and Pycnanthemum muticum, for example, The latter is considered one of the single best plants for bees and are always swarmed with hordes of interesting insects. The good news is that there are many native species that have been developed specifically for around the home. You obviously want "straight species" rather than cultivars that have been heavily tweaked to appeal to the human eye, but that doesn't mean they have to look "weedy", either. Aster novae-anglica "Purple Dome", for example, is a great late-season pollen source and an amazing foundation planting for around the home. It looks like someone dropped a scoop of ice cream! And don't forget the Solidago spp. There are dozens of different species out there, and they are great for the landscape needs as well as the bees. "Golden Fleece" might be your cup of tea. It's just a matter of figuring out what will work in your landscape. With as much mulch as you already have on the ground, and all the watering you do, I think a lot of native wildflowers and grasses could do very well even if the "textbook" says that area's too hot or dry.
The bees just sent a warning shot across your deck, wait til they stake out their turf, it takes days for them to settle down, and you can't drive by them, words from a "never again" bee guy, from taking 50+ stings on a bad day to getting 2 and waking up in hospital 6 hrs later, it was a no brainier, no bees, life is to short, they even get after animals, wait til a goat climbs a hive, be safe, put them on the very back 40.
I will admit, if we didn't have our neighbors in charge of taking care of those bees it would not even be on our radar. If you remember when you visited, these are on the very back of the corner acre the furthest away from everything.
Did you vine vanilla up that fig tree which the leaf-cutter ants would naturally prune/mulch for you? I assume it's God's way of showing people that they don't really have to do much work to enjoy many greater new things on this Earth. It might also be what you'll want to feed any milk animals to gain a different type/flavor of dairy product The comment relates to your wallowing pond for honey mesquite been pod purposes, but possibly consider(even moreso) the idea that a shade bearing tree capable of growing in saltwater which you monthly add a bit more quality grade epsom salt to. My guesses went from salt cedar to a cold tolerant variety of dwarf coconut but I'm still hoping the best ideas come from me so I'll likely continue researching and theorizing. For now I'm stuck on coconut as it's oils produced would keep enzymes living longer, propagating the otherwise dry landscape more easily, the pigs and other animals would have a hard time knocking it down, and a couple more reasons i can't recall at the moment.
Now I would have never considered having something growing up a tree for leaf cutter ants to specifically go after. Coconut would be an interesting challenge. I haven't seen one growing outside of a greenhouse other than in Florida and Hawaii!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm It might be the most sought after, profitable idea I've had; I've held it secret for a while and there's much more to it, it could truly be amazing, I haven't even said it out loud yet knowing these devices pick up all info they can about us. Speaking of, a certain channel "Regeneration International" had taken one of their videos down, in the comments of it I had posted part of my idea and didn't get a chance to screenshot it. I assume it's the idiots who monitor and act like they're working with us rather than the reality that they're "just doing their jobs"(whatever they're told to do) and not caring where our intel is actually going because they don't actually know but they know they want the money. Far as I understand it's a possibly that they were working together with the organic growers association of America and they had farms in Mexico to avoid America's laws(they didn't want to pay me for my idea). I figure we as individuals would have to work to spread the knowledge and understand that they have a mental block on doing the actual work(thinking about how to properly care for creation), so that we can literally just quit and the tyrannical people will have nothing of ours.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm and part of the moisture retaining of not pruning could help these beans. I recently researched the size differences of the ones from Brazil.
Curious why you didn’t use smoke on the bees to calm them. In saying this I know absolutely nothing about raising bees just what I’ve seen on the idiot box.
Well, you know more than we do, because smoke sure would have been helpful! Our friends who are raising these are back today, so I'm sure we'll get a few pointers on what to do next time they're out of town!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm One bit I have learned is that if you hurt/damage a bee and it's poison gets into the air, other bees will get quite angry.. And smoke does wonders indeed.
