Hey Allan. Yeah, we've been planting like mad for the last couple of weeks and testing the irrigation. These rings will hold at least a couple hundred gallons before overflowing.
Edge of Nowhere Farm Some of the slower suspects that arent supposed to do well here are still kinda sleeping (red love apple, honey crisp apple) but pretty much everything else is going well. Had my first ripe O’neal blueberry yesterday. Didnt have a lot of flavor but just ok. :)
Edge of Nowhere Farm My son had the next ripe blueberry. He liked it. This variety isnt putting out a lot but they are good size. I see a couple coming in that are nearly nickel size.
Hey Cobalo, thanks. It was good to finally get started here on the new property. Now it's a mad dash to get as many as we can in the ground before it gets too hot!!
I think I'm nearly as excited as you about the new plantings. Already in my mind's eye I imagine the way the place will look (beautiful) after you're done. If possible when you show another planting that has to be staked, could you show a close-up of how you arrange that? I'm curious to see how you do it. Thanks!
Well, I (Duane) was born and raised in Los Angeles and never thought I would find myself in Arizona. Fast forward 22 years and I wouldn't call anywhere else home! Where are you guys living now?
Edge of Nowhere Farm I currently live in Maryland. I’m from Ohio but I’ve lived in 6 states. My brother thought it would be a good idea to move to Arizona for the land
Hey guys!! Lori is from Phoenix, but I (Duane) am from Los Angeles. We met in San Diego and she brought me here kicking and screaming in 1998. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else now....Well, Hawaii would be pretty nice!
Hey Bin, yeah it's a mad dash right now to get as many as we can in the ground before the hot weather. Then again, you can probably see our progress real time from your property!
Loved how excited you were, I was too 😊. I think I'm going to check out your video where you dug up this tree. I have a Tango mandarin was planted 5 years ago and after it struggling the last few years, I posted a picture on one of my gardening Facebook groups and was told it had been planted too deep. I dug down about 8 inches to find the root flare, now I'm tempted to dig it up and reposition it better..
Hey Michaela. I say go for it with that Tango. If it heats up really quick you may need to shade it through June until we get our monsoon weather, but you should be ok if you do it really soon. We just put the kumquat trees in the ground today and had to dig down a bit to find that root flare as well. Now they'll be happy, high and dry...well, kinda dry. :)
Oh that tractor is GOING to happen once the outbuilding is in. Been thinking of you and our other Aussie viewers heading into Fall down under. Hoping they get this virus under control before your cold and flu season kicks in.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm thanks for your thoughts, and ours are with you and your countrymen. We self isolate all the time out here in the bush anyway, so it isn't that much different. I suppose the biggest change we have seen is that visitors knock and wait outside now, where as in the past they would knock and walk right in. Oh and no hand shaking either.
Great job on documenting the planting process! Roughly how far down below existing grade are you digging out the swale between the inner berm and the outer berm? Roughly how high above undisturbed grade and about how wide is the outer berm? Roughly how deep a mulch layer are you trying to achieve (after it settles)? Redoing and simplifying my undersized irrigation this year with bubblers and incorporating berms & swales for new./replacement trees.
Brian, those are great questions and we're still trying to determine the best answer to that question before we dig the outer rings for all of these trees. The first 7 trees we put in the ground were our test trees and the depth and width of the swales varied a bit. We're trying to figure out how to standardize them a bit more, but generally we're shooting for a woodchip depth of between 8-12 inches. We're finding that is ideal to keep weeds down and soil moisture consistent. With that as a gauge, I'm guessing we'll wind up about 8 inches below grade in the swale and about 4 inches above for the top of the outer berm. All of this to ensure we can also easily irrigate to about 100 gallons a week (once per week) without any overflow and consistent moisture around the ring. Then of course the capacity for additional rain capture before the berm has reached overflow. Long story short, it's still a work in progress, but that's where we're headed.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Valuable insights. Thanks. That is an ambitious amount of dirt to move by auger & hand. Hopefully Alexa delivers your tractor with an excavator bucket and wagon by Mother's Day. Lol.
Just a suggestion...You could also take perforated pipe and auger those down at each of your bubblers.. Feed your bubblers up through the perforated pipe and refill pipe with sand and pea gravel...that way you get moisture below the ground along with the top.. Obviously your berms will allow presaturation into the ground ..Which alot will be evaporated before it penatrates the soil in hot low humidity climates like AZ Phoenix ...Anyways it looks good that wood chips compost is exceptional. Probably your successful last farm worked well with the way you've set up your watering.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Yes, but we're still getting hot days, though I'm not going to complain this year bc of the pandemic. I hope you are all well there and have enough of what you need during lockdowns, etc. Do you have a vege garden? That'd be a good video if you do!
@@fCLEF007 we seem to be faring better in AZ where it's warmer and we have had a very cool spring so far. We haven't started the vege garden on this property yet. We're hoping to have at least a few beds in place for fall planting!!
Watching this 9 months later and I'm looking at you guys grabbing those wood chips and thinking... "That tractor was the best buy yet". Actually, make that second behind the auger.
Hey Brandon! Great question and we weren't 100% sure on the size until we ran the irrigation. Our goal is to put about 100 gallons/week on this tree during the peak of summer and we ran it for 3 hours (90 gallons) and it filled near perfect without the mulch. We did go back and "grade" the ring to ensure it filled evenly which we didn't show on camera. We need to make sure we show that next time around for reference. Also, we did put a temporary drip line up to the inner ring instead of the bubbler head to get through this first summer. This fall we'll go back to the bubbler as we should have root growth out into the ring by then.
Thanks for your reply, I am definitely jealous of your property. I would love to have that much space to plant fruit trees. I hope that someday you two open your place up to tours. I would love to see it in person some day and maybe be able to sneak a few pieces of fruit.
Hey Valerie. We did a brief overview of the style we chose a few years back and I'll link that for you here; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ql5ALvPPAdA.html
We live where it is very hot. What kind of loquat did you have and how much water did you give it in the summer. Our summers can get up to 123, but stay between 110 to 118 in july august.
Hey Sandra. We had a Yehuda Loquat and it does take a lot of water in the summer. Typically we would give it between 90 - 100 gallons per week and that was split up between 3 different days.
Yes, they do. In fact, we already have them in abundance thanks to all the rain this winter and the weeds we have growing everywhere. Love having them here.
Hey Leona. Right now our plan is to start with about 150 fruit trees (including grapevines). As for water, we're limited on how much we can draw from our well, so the design of our irrigation takes that into account. These rings are large enough to hold a few hundred gallons of water each. We won't irrigate that much, but when it does rain they will get a GREAT deep soak and retain a lot of water.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Thanks for the reply. We are just putting in our orchard of 145 trees this year. We are almost finished with installing irrigation. Glad I found your channel it has a lot of great tips for getting started. We are in southern Utah.
