The Desert Farmer Podcast - July 6, 2024 | Record Heat/Q&A
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- June was another record with the highest average temp on record for us in the Phoenix area. So, how is the farm holding up and what are we doing different from an irrigation standpoint? Let's get into it and answer your top questions for the week.
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Would love to see more Healthy Farm Living! Your kombucha video is 💯
Our plan is to incorporate those into this channel going forward, so keep an eye out for that. Glad you liked the Kombucha video!
Someone in chat asked about Elberta Peach ... it's the peach I grow in Vegas, but it is the Early Elberta. It does great and is all harvested by July 4th. Highly recommend. Just protect the trunk from horizontal sun rays, and use the usual scaffold system and you'll have good fruit. Hope it helps!!
That's great to hear Kevin. Hopefully it works out well for him as well!
I have an Early Elberta here in Vegas as well that really started struggling with this massive heat wave we have right now. I assume you are saying paint the trunk white to protect from horizontal sun rays, but can you point me in the right direction to learn about the scaffolding you’re referring to? I’m not familiar with that. Someone suggested I put a sun 70-90% shade over it since it’s in my chicken run. ??
Hahaha, Duane! Ozzie and Harriet is my husband’s dream too. 😂 Not gonna happen. Laurie is working more than full time on that farm!! I work full time and it’s a challenge taking care of the yard, keeping up the house, and cooking too. I wish I could just come home and it’s all done for me too. 🙃
Yeah, sounds like we're all in the same boat. I suppose those were the "good ole days"...if you were the guy coming home from work!! 😂
I had to leave early but listened to the ending afterward. I am thrilled that you are going to do this more often.
Always great to have a familiar face on the live events. Makes us feel more at home. Glad you were there Pam!
Lori is right, by appt only. At least while you're small.
@@janetspiritofthelivinggod6328 agreed!!
I love Lori on camera!
I (Duane) agree. She's shaking her head right now!! 😂😂
Great information as always. I did not know about eucalyptus inhibiting growth of nearby trees. We have a large eucalyptus next to two small apple trees we planted that have seemed to struggle to grow as opposed to our third apple which has grown significantly. Now I might know why! Really appreciate you guys!!
That was something I learned years and years ago, before we were actually growing much of anything. We were visiting San Francisco and the tour guide actually mentioned it! Strange how we pick things up from random places sometimes. 🤷
Have a productive early Elberta peach here in St George/Washington, ut zone 8 with not many chill hours.
That's good to know!!
We had a record high yesterday (pretty sure for the day not all time), it was 116 degrees and extra F****d up, lol. (Paso Robles, Ca) I spent the morning up till 2pm installing a second mini split A/C unit in the back of my house, which thankfully worked amazingly. One thing I’ve noticed in this heat that is lush and green is my Cabernet grapes. They are going crazy this year and I have not given them a drop of water. I pruned them down to stumps in late winter and then put 6-8 inches of wood chip mulch on them and that’s was it. They’re so vigorous that I’ve been having to pron one that keeps trying to overtake a raised bed that’s a few feet away, (I suspect it is their water source, lol). Duane, I parted ways with all my goats several years ago, I like them better at other peoples houses better than at mine, lol.
Wow, Jared that is hotter than we were here, goodness! Glad those cab vines are doing well for you. We're about 1-2 weeks from harvest from what I can tell which is about 2 weeks late, so they're struggling a little right now. I imagine that vine is dipping into your bed for a drink or two! Oh and the goats, yeah. Hindsight we would have just started with sheep!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Haha, I used to raise sheep, they’re so dumb that they are too frustrating for me to deal with, unless you have a trained sheep herding dog. Plus unless you raise a hair breed that sheds naturally you have to shear them which would be imperative in your climate. Goats are just so stubborn that they’re doing their thing no matter how hard you try to not let them. I’d recommend a steer. Feed it out and then eat it, lol. As for this heat we got to enjoy that baloney for 2 days in a row, today it’s a little over 100. It’ll do this till September with a smattering of decent days mixed in, most likely all of them during the week when I’m at work and can’t enjoy them, haha, but if it’s too bad we are only 40 minutes from the ocean and cool weather. I’ll just go play golf in Morro Bay if I need a break. In the meantime I just do the early morning and evening deal when working around my place and always take a bottle of ice water and my Yeti full of iced tea with me to keep hydrated. The only reason I’ve resisted moving to AZ since my father in law moved there a few years ago is the heat but it seems like every year we get blasted pretty bad anyway. Might as well enjoy those second amendment freedoms and lower cost of living if that’s going to be the case, lol.
@@jaredmccutcheon5496 I will say, we have a few more freedoms here than in in Cali and it's what keeps us from heading over there to visit.
For rats we used ratx from hardware store. I heated them in the microwave with peanut butter, molasses or gummy worms and rolled into balls to make it ready to keep track how many were getting eaten. Rats basically have a corn gluten allergy and that's what Ratx is and it will only hurt similar rodents, not an owl or cat etc.
Ooh, this is good information. Thank you!!
Check out the EcoWitt line of WiFi soil moisture equipment, its on my order list.
Got my Jug of Double Nickel Fungicide as i have that issue in stonefruits, due to overwatering, monsoon conflicts.
The monsoons have been strange so far this year. We had 2 great back to back storms early in the season and now nothing for a few weeks.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm what I'm thinking with these is placing them randomly, monitoring and setting my Rachio timer from here in Canada, for now I have various size emmitors , like you I have trees on the same lines, but with differing water needs.
And run some drip lines in the covercrops between the trees .
It's a learning curve complicated by being away as soon as the peaches get harvested
So hoping that the moisture gadgets help. They aren't that big of a investment, a couple tree losses saved is worth the cost.
Missed the live show but Deb n I said that you should combine both channels into 1. Would work easier to cover all that happen on the farm! Great show guys!
We're leaning that way also Robb. It's just not feasible for us to dedicate the time we need to both!
I planted Sunn Hemp June 18, watered it every 2 hours for the 1st week, 1/2 " a day, one heavy watering, now its bi-weekly 1/2" of water per watering, it germinated well, now July 6 its 18" tall, crazy growth, will have it topped at 3', and see how it does , flying down again end of Sept, will see how it does, the rest of the area will get covercropped with cool weather stuff then. Will monitor the Sunn Hemp may let it go til Nov.
Snowbirding and maintaining 2 gardens has me hopping, experimenting.
That's good to hear about the hemp. We've had a lot of folks suggest growing it, but we've been happy with the sorghum for our summer cereal crops.
Holy smokes! How on earth do you keep all this water schedule clear in your minds? I'd have to have a Daytimer documenting what I was supposed to water (or not water) that day, otherwise, everything I had would probably die!
The vast majority of our trees are on automated irrigation, so they are literally on a timer! 😂
My family had a lake house in the State of Washington. I lived in SoCal, but I would live on the lake in the summer. There was a peninsula on the lake that was covered in blackberry bushes. Of course, we'd get in our boat with our buckets and go and pick the biggest, juciest blackberries you've ever seen. Since these blackberry bushes were on the edge of a lake, I assume the lake water was feeding them a constant source of water throughtout the year, so I would assume blackberries can take A LOT of water.
They can definitely thrive in heavy moisture. I would visit So. Oregon every summer as a kid and we always picked blackberries along river banks!
I used to have a really good gopher cat. She would see a gopher kicking up a hill and have him out so quick. But not every cat is interested like that.
One of ours is a fan of picking off the baby gophers, but they struggle with the full size buggers.
How many gallons per minute does your well produce on average? also, what is the depth of your drilling? I'm trying to gauge the best areas to look for the next property we get (looking at private wells now).
The well pump produces 13 gallons/minute, but the well itself could sustain at least double that. The issue we have here is the limitation on how much we can draw at any given time which is restricted. If we wanted to double that it would require additional permitting which is generally not approved from what our driller advised us.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm so do you have a backup catchment water tank that you pump water to?
@@robb4866 no, we only have the 1 tank. We do keep a barrel of water as a backup for watering the animals for when the well goes down.