A Desert Farm After Record Heat | What Did We Lose? | September Farm Tour

With yet another summer with record heat the farm has taken a beating again. Today we're sharing with you the good, bad and ugly after another brutal season!
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[@kevincharles112]

If there is one thing I've learned from you, it's "Happy Roots, Happy Tree!". Roots are the part we have control over ... the fertilizer for intake, the watering time/rate/volume, and the mulch for temperature control. Do those properly, and the tree will manage itself and you'll have some pretty good results!!

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

Bingo Kevin. This year we definitely tested that out!

[@gogogardener]

Glad I caught this video. I see them every so often. I'm in a low desert and we have similar struggles. 25 years at the site and still learning. Tried 5 apricots. 1 produced... 4 became firewood. Peaches do well for about 7 years, then borers finally get them. Our current variety is Oh Henry, which produces mid Summer. Sadly pomegranate fruits get infested with alternaria something or other. We have a grapefruit that was planted before we moved here. It thrives and produces many cases of fruit in Summer months. I heard it was some local variety. Just trying figs and our trees look like yours, dry leaves and struggling. The dwarf Violette Beaurdou (sp?) produces small fruit, but does the best. Fireblight is here. It's not something to mess with. Cut out infected branches, remove dropped leaves, and remove from the site. Do not compost. It makes the pom tree family and pyracanthia hard to grow. Thanks for your videos. I'm still learning as I watch your channel.

[@mctechies745]

This heat has been tough for sure.

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

It really has been a long, hot summer.

[@affordabledesertliving3487]

Just a shout out to Dwayne. I really enjoy your passionate articulate way of talking about your home and farm. All the best to you and Lori.

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

Thank you for the kind words. ❤️

[@Puaspapa]

Thanks for the update!! Nice touch on the sweet potato covering your banana trees! Very smart

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

I was hoping you'd see that one! Aloha!

[@darylpas2209]

Thanks for the update. It was really good seeing all of the trees. I like the drone view of the farm. Noticed some hot air balloons in the background.

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

Glad you caught those air balloons. It was all I could do to keep from going over there with the drone and getting some closer up shots. Just wasn't sure if that was Kosher or not!

[@Pamsgarden213]

Great video, nice to see the updates.

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

Glad you enjoyed this one Pam!

[@GreenGranny]

This kind of video is so valuable for those of us who grow in the brutal arid heat. Thank you! It helps to know if what I see on my plants is normal at the end of the heat. I appreciate your content so much!

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

It's always rough looking this time of year, but this year has been especially tough!

[@taylorvanbuskirk8040]

Looking at the perimeter, you still have a lot of land to grow into. As far as watering goes, I've lost a lot of cactus because of the heat. Even cactus need water, so if cactus needs water, I can't imagine all the water your plants need on the farm.

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

We're basically only using about half of the property so far, so yes still lots of space to grow. We also doubled our watering this summer for the trees and they're still in rough shape!

[@washibonsai5307]

This is reality!! Thank you for this video! It is inspiring and affirming for me that my struggle in Dubais desert is normal. ❤️

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

Glad you enjoyed this one and hello from the other side of the world!!

[@chawn521]

Thank you for sharing!! So helpful to see what others experience has been during this challenging summer. Really appreciate the candid tour and not showing only the "perfect" part of the farm. :). The stragglers are starting to push some green out now that the night temps are a little cooler. Makes me realize how valuable rain water is in helping our trees despite soaring temps. I guess it is the AZ version of "tough love". Thanks for all you do to help all of us learn and grow with you!

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

Glad you enjoyed this one. We try to show as much as we can and the bad is part of that!

[@2brnt2b]

Thanks for showing drone view of the farm. It's nice to have an overview and seeing the pigs from above down is cool. Perhaps the apple trees can be grown under big nut trees where it can get some shades🤔

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

Glad you enjoyed this one. For potted trees it would definitely help to have some shade during the peak of summer.

[@mesutozsen903]

Eline Emeğine Sağlık Bu Güzel Vlog ve Video İçin Kolay Gelsin Hayırlı İşler Bol Bereketli Kazançların Olsun 👍👍👍👍

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

Teşekkürler Mesut. Umarım Türkiye'de her şey yolundadır!

[@mesutozsen903]

@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Türkiye harika bir yer size ne anlatıyorlar ama bilmem türkiye gerçekten yaşanacak bir yer adeta cennet enkısa zamanda beklerim gelim misafirim olun sizi her yeri gezdireyim

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

@@mesutozsen903 Umarım bir gün bunu gerçekleştirebiliriz!

[@funnywolffarm]

Thanks for the video. I'm sure you're tired of hearing thoughts about wood chips but I think I remember hearing that you used to have them delivered for free for some time. I would think dedicating a half acre to 12-15 inches of wood chips and seeing what the results are to the soil below after just a year would be an amazing experiment for you. Best of luck with your farm.

[@enriquealonso6351]

I have .25 acre property with 1 ft of wood chips. It’s helped keep moisture. I live in central Phoenix so it’s as hot as it gets. I have two avocado trees under 70% shade fabric. They’ve grown well. Wood chip decompose really fast because of the amount of watering. Wood chips in full sun don’t really decompose.

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

We did have a good run of getting wood chips, but we have not received a delivery in over 2 years, so we're hoarding those for now!

[@AmzBackyardOrchardandVineyard]

Thanks for the farm update! I've been gone from home most of the summer. We're not immune to all the heat damage as well.. we've lost a few and see new growth on some plants we thought were a total loss.

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

This summer was brutal! Seeing any new growth is definitely a good sign. 😊

[@cms9902]

According to the National Weather Service (US), the highest temperature recorded in Arizona was 128f or 53c in 1994. That's possibly why you had very small losses.

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

No doubt it can get much hotter. The lack of rain with absolutely no reprieve was the record we set this year and it's still not giving up.

[@authorcharlieboring]

I visited dry southern Italy and they grew there grape vines at a height of about two-three feet vice the five to six feet height of yours. I was informed that they do this to cope with the high evaporation rates.

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

That definitely makes sense!

[@Reciprocity_Soils]

Sweet potato, Sweet potato grow far and wide, protect my soil. Micro-ecosystems will abide. Love that ground cover and all the armor over the soil. In the area around the farm, what are the cheapest native grassy groundcovers available? Great to see the living roots in the soil. Spectacular flyover.

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

There really isn't a native ground cover (grass/weed) that grows here during the dry season. We do get some grasses that pop up when we have rain, but it's dry and gone within a few weeks.

[@lynntran7777]

Will you kindly do a video on how to grow blackberries like yours. Mine keep dying on me. I’m in Avondale. Thank you 😊

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

We've done a few episodes on that, but I'll link the last one for you here where we discuss a few key details; kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJy7n618osh1htU

[@michaldurana4227]

Thank you for sharing this video ❤️❤️. One of the most interesting I think❤❤. I would like to be longer 😊😊❤❤. Admire your effort and work. Greetings from Slovakia ❤️. We have 13degrees Celsius these rainy days 😅

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

I'm glad you enjoyed this one and wow, what I would give to have a 13 degree C day right now!! Today's high is 40 degrees C!

[@MarSchlosser]

Been bad, all the heat. All the horseradish kicked off, but probably because I wasn't minding the buckets. It needs shade here but the sun moved over and hit the buckets, killing the roots. *Unintended experiment, sorghum planted by both new peach trees. one tree, on the west side (worse side) the sorghum took off and is now 8-9 feet tall and a nearby tobacco tree decided to live and got suckers all around a nice, dead stump, worse luck. But, the peach is fine, green, full-sized leaves. *Other peach protected with a wind break, the sorghum died. It looks not good. It's alive, and some new leaves, but man, wow nothing compared to the other one. *No matter what, your place looks great.

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

This year definitely sneaked up on us. We didn't have those really hot days like we have the last few years, but all of those days with absolutely no reprieve and now to have it continuing is really taking it's toll.

[@ericbowers1620]

Im confused at something I heard during the video, maybe I heard wrong or it was a mistake on the dialogue but when you were referring to the Apple in the pot at the 7:33ish mark of the video you said that it was not the correct rootstock that you get from RSI. I thought that the RSI rootstock IS the one you want? Thanks for the clarification Duane/Lori! All things considered with the record heat, the farm looks great!

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

Hey Eric. I should have clarified, it's not the ideal root stock for a potted tree. Those are aggressive roots designed for our soil. Good catch!

[@ericbowers1620]

@@EdgeofNowhereFarm ahhhh ok gotcha!

[@chetnash5991]

Great update! I don’t think people understand the impact 100+ degrees does to plants and livestock. With that in mind, have you give. Thought to companion plants taking advantage of the cooler microclimates of your more established trees?

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

Hey Chet. I'm not sure whether we'll add that or not. The biggest issue is keeping the ground from becoming a hiding spot for rattle snakes. With the general public on the farm it's not a good combo. The second issue is fertilizing. We need to be able to pull back the area around the trees to add fertilizer 3x/year. Those 2 things have kept it off the list so far.

[@chetnash5991]

@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Do rattlers bury in the wood chips? I forgot you may have that problem

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

@@chetnash5991 we have not seen them in the woodchips. They usually build their nests behind other animals/rodents, so holes in the ground are always a question mark. Is it a ground squirrel still or snakes now?

[@slamboy66]

How do you irrigate the trees(type) on the back fence line?🤔🤔🤔

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

Those are on a dedicated irrigation line that we ran with all of the other lines back in 2020. We use a higher rate bubbler (1gpm vs 0.5gpm) given the size of the trees.

[@lozanofarms2402]

How are the bees doing?

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

There is still 1 hive that is hanging in there. The folks who own them have not been here for a few months, so we don't know for sure to be honest. We just see the bees coming and going from the hive and sipping water everywhere on the farm. 🤷

[@EinFreundfriend]

Great video, please can you show more of the hogwarts pigs🙏

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

Thank you! We'll try to get more of them in a vlog soon 😉

[@AbidAli-bv2gl]

Excellent video. Sneak Peek of orchard. I found Jujube tree with fruit. Which varity of JUjube?

[@EdgeofNowhereFarm]

Hey Abid. That is the Shanxi Li jujube. It's a younger tree and produces really well!