Desert Berm & Swale: SUCCESS or FAILURE?

[@mothermedicinemusic]

Eucalyptus is great for fire wood, aromatic, reduces insects, sustainable - frequently used in high elevations for its longevity, sustainability, and use for heat. Portugal has so much of this tree that it is an invasive that causes massive fires on the island and is required to be removed within &0 feet to any structure. Yet your use will be greatly advantageous. Chaste berry is good medicine for women to regulate cycles. Mulberry is a great cloth dye as well as a yummy berry! Pine is a great source of Vitamin C and needles are used in combo with sassafras and elderberry for sinus healing situations and allergy symptoms reduction. Love the berm update! Love your channel and all the projects you dive into in your homestead adventures!!!

[@fronniebealer7808]

Have heard the pine will mitigate the effects of certain jabby jabs. I keep pine essential oils for all kinds of ills.

[@KarenSmith-ys3sk]

​@@fronniebealer7808,I make a tea out of the needles,high in vitamin c.

[@meen-r.d.7500]

White tamarind(leucaena leucocephala) is good for desert areas because it provide shade, but it also have to be away from any structure.

[@rdespura1527]

Some of those eucalyptus are to closed to the house.

[@farmkay]

​@@fronniebealer7808 never got the jabby, found someone that made sprays from pine needle oil still use it when around folk that are sniffy, sneezy or jabbed so far not a cough, cold or flu. Cheers from 🇳🇿

[@rebeccaarcher5139]

Wait! Hold up! THREE YEARS AGO!?!? How can that BEEEEEE? My daughter used to joke about her "fruends" Ross, Rachel, Joey, Phoebe, Chandler, and Monica. I, in the same wry way, call you "my friends in Arizona". But how long have I been following you? No WONDER I feel like I know you guys! I'm so impressed with all you've done! Your hearts and souls are in this project! Thank you for bringing us along on your journey!

[@marymccowan6629]

I know really I have been watching since the moved on the property

[@tommytriglav5181]

Terrific job with your swale. Half moons are a good idea too. The idea is to trap as much water in your property as possible and raise the ground water table. The half moon you can plant corn and vegetables in the bottom and a tree on the bottom of the arc. Just a shallow depression in the shape of a half circle. So you are doing a terrific job. For small trees they may need drip irrigation at the base of each tree. I think if you plant more closer together they shade the ground and keep more moisture in the ground compared to planting them far apart where the sun dries out the soil in between. So yes trap as much water as possible, raise the water table then you can use drip irrigation from wells to grow crops. Best wishes. Always more to learn. Trapping water underground raises the water table and the water does not evaporated so quickly. Just can't take more water from the ground water than you put in. Best wishes.

[@ClarkBK67]

There is a saying about transplanted trees: Year 1 they sleep, year 2 they creep, year 3 they leap. This was my experience planting an oak tree here in NY. This year, the fourth summer it really took off. They’re establishing roots initially. Once the root system is big and strong they can leverage the water and nutrients they draw from the soil to grow high. I bet you’ll see some great progress next year. I think your honey locusts will take off.

[@TheDog_Chef]

Wondering if you guys are aware of Shawn Overton's channel Dustups Ranch? He is attempting to reforest a property in West Texas. His focus besides swales and analog beaver dams, is soil amendment, adding biochar and other things to help his plantings have a better start at establishing.If you haven't watched you may want to check it out. What great progress you have made in 3 years!

[@Nphen]

Watching Dustups and other conservation channels build beaver dams got me to go for a walk in a local park and throw a bunch of fallen sticks and branches into a dry overflow channel that will fill up in the spring. I dragged a few entire 20 foot long dead trees and laid them across. The channel bed was muddy; it felt like it needs the dead branches to stop erosion into the river. It cleaned up lots of branches that were leaning up and caught up on live trees. It was a good workout!

[@ericfallis6202]

Holy cow I watched you put it in great job didn't realize that I have been watching your videos that long 😊

[@nancyschwartz5665]

Thank you for the update! Something to remember...when you plant perennials they usually sleep the first year, creep the second year and LEAP the 3rd year. There is still hope for your honey locust trees. :^)

[@MsChrystophe]

Sitting with the photo of my tree in my lap, fun, fun, fun and my mulberry is still alive!

[@sophacles10]

You didn't lose 5 trees, you added 60-something on hard mode. I planted 5 trees out back a couple of years ago and only 3 remain, and we've got good soil and plenty of rain.... y'all are doing great! Thanks for the update, I've been looking forward to this.

[@paulvanhouts3365]

G’day Ash and Jon, just can’t help commenting about the eucalyptus concerns. I grew up in Victoria, Australia and yes they do drop branches, widowmakers, at random when heat stressed during summer and extended dry. When I bush walked I would hear them occasionally drop but you may hear a warning crack, but they do drop suddenly. This is only a safety concern for the large trees. On the fore risk, I could see the air building up with a vapor cloud, that would flash burn in the right conditions. I lived on a ridge above valleys so this was something I watched. There were days I just wouldn’t burn anything, on non declared fire ban days, because of this. I lived among mountain ash, messmate and blue gums, great timber resources. Your very few eucalypts aren’t really anything that I would worry about. I grew lots around these eucalypts, but when fires came they were intense and cleared most things. This was a great update, thank you.

[@maladaptedmalarkey]

I once planted a Holly tree in Tennessee in extremely compacted soil that was heavy in clay and probably more alkaline than ideal. The thing didn’t grow for years. I came back to visit my parents from college, and the thing had easily quadrupled in size, probably more. I suspect it just needed time to build out its root network. Those Locust trees may be doing the same thing. Plus, they’re nitrogen fixers. They may just need a few years before they’ve amended the soil well enough to go through a substantial growth cycle.

[@matenloe2598]

In Spain some folks have taken desert like your area and planted tree rows. They plant them close together in a tree line a few feet apart and they plant one good tree then an undesirable garbage tree, then a good desirable tree... the garbage trees are selectively trimmed from time to time and the trimmed branches are cut into strait pieces and the pieces are laid along the tree rows next to the trunks so as the pieces decay they promote fungal growth and a relationship between the trees and ground starts creating soil... As the tree rows grow you gradually cut the garbage trees down completely and they exit the system, yet their branches rot at the feet of the good trees feeding the soil..... The decay is slower as the branches are large pieces piled up along the tree trunk rows unlike wood chips that heat up.... As you cut any tree branches a hormone is sent out through the fungal web in the tree roots and they warn the neighboring trees that a tree is being attacked so ALL of the trees put on growth.... the people in Spain made a few tree rows and they set up a control area with trees spaced the recommended distances apart and the ones in the control group were small and did not show growth where the ones put into tree lines close together and which got selectively trimmed bushed up and grew tall.... this method is in principal close to the SYNTROPIC AGROFORESTRY methods used in the tropics but each climate biome has its own needs.... You have a lot of Mesquite which is a nitrogen fixer soil builder pioneer species... MARK SHEPPARD mentioned that as the west was colonized they fed the lush cane to their cattle and as they used all of the native cane up the earth dried up more, the last very large beaver in North America was trapped in Arizona... MARK SHEPPARD plants a lot of ancient native trees on his land which are perfect for his biome... I wonder what plants and trees did well in Arizona and which would do well again if implemented.... The video of the folks in Spain are on you-tube as well and the title is R.A.S.

[@TinyShinyHome]

Yes in the original video we talk about how some trees will be firewood as the good ones grow and fill in the space.

[@ulyanadyudina6980]

@@TinyShinyHome Garbage trees are also creating wind shade, very critical for the frost (talking from experience back in cold Russia), so the more the better.

[@Nphen]

Thank you for this mini lecture on selective pruning. What an ingenious forestry lifehack. I've heard of nutrient sharing between conifers & leaf trees during different times of year. The option of sacrificial trees opens new possibilities in agroforestry, tree nursery, timber, and conservation. It got me thinking how to apply it where I live, and to look up the Staghorn Sumac (native to Michigan), and realize it's not the invasive "Tree of Heaven" that looks similar and grows very quickly. I'm glad I cut down the stinky bad ones in the past, and relieved I left the good ones in my garden this year. I'm wondering if MI Gardener (go check out his channel for real) could plant "trash" Staghorn Sumac between his new orchard trees, prune them as suggested, and kill them off as his trees grow to size.

[@matenloe2598]

@@Nphen I would look into dedicated Permaculture groups pages and Syntropic Agroforestry pages for familiarization and to pick their minds as some are in our Biomes doing that stuff... In China they are taking river clay and putting it in tanker trucks and mixing it as they drive it to desert sites then they broadcast it over sand as it takes just a bit of clay to hold moisture for the plants to take off and after broadcasting the clay water they plant checkerboard patterns of grasses to reclaim desert eventually bringing in hardy trees.... Geoff Lawton pointed out in his Jordan videos of Greening The Desert that any tree can be killed if you just remove its leaves every time they recover, he was plucking what was left of a desert stump where Prosopis and some other desert species were used as Pioneers... once they got a canopy of productive and hardy trees growing they thinned out the pioneers bit by bit and put them into SPIKEY PITS which are 3 ft by 3 ft by 9 ft deep pits where they toss all waste organic matter and animal dung and run grey water out to it to keep it moist and breaking down.... a fungal web spread out from each pit for dozens of yards and that part of their property is now the lush part where it was nothing but rock and sand in the beginning....

[@canuckyank82]

Your best video yet. We have all been hoping for these results because we believe in knowledge creating habitat. You started with bare land. Already it is so lush. Additionally, you ate now the torch bearers for the many new homesteaders. Fantastic news, fantastic work and a fantastic video!

[@gracealonso275]

Excellent. "The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit:" Nelson Henderson

[@peem1244]

Hi guys, hope you are all well. Your berm/swale is doing so well, I'm impressed. We usually only see it in the background, of course, but It's great to see a tour. Whenever I plant something new I make a basket for the roots out of chicken wire to keep the critters away from the root ball. Great video. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the good work. Peace. :)

[@Homested_Happenings]

Rudy is a great guy. He helped me pick out my property

[@hayleydwyer1469]

10000% here for the solar powered lazy river!!! And that is now also my own life dream 😂😂

[@WealthyChronicle]

Anyone else think the dogs might be the real MVPs here, causing chaos and making the whole homestead story even more entertaining? 😂🐶

[@MichaelDeeringMHC]

Looking forward to the ten year update.

[@TheGonebald]

I feel your pain when it comes to dog damage. My backyard is comprised of Texas native plants. My wife and I were relaxing on our deck enjoying the yard when she made a comment. Why are so many of our plants medium to large sized and none are small. I pointed to our 2 Corgi’s which I refer to as bulldozers. When they play all bets are off. They run over whatever is in the way.

[@AMinton-h9k]

I have learned so much from you guys since I’ve been watching. Looks like the berm & swale are on the right track. This video was so good with the views of the mountains & lightning storms. Loved the glimpses of the cat in the tree. Every day I open KZbin hoping to find a new video from you. Thanks for sharing your journey ❤️

[@InHisGardenCreations]

Love the berm and swale! We did half moons this year for our blueberries and figs. It has worked great.

[@sparkofhope-withkatrinadar8707]

You all are so much fun to watch. I have enjoyed following over these past few years. Keep up the good work! A huge undertaking ! I’m rooting for you and your house build.!!!!

[@elizabethizard781]

Wow!! Such progress on the berm and swale!! It is nice to see the bad with the good. Thank you for the update. Keep up the great work TSH and for sharing your family with us!

[@lastfirst9791]

Why your comment was 7hrs ago

[@baskervillebee6097]

😮😮😅😅😂​@@lastfirst9791

[@ShannonGauder]

I can not begin to express how much joy I get from watching your videos and seeing the passion you show for everything you do not only for your family friends but also the earth, so much love for you both. Thank you

[@keltek6050]

Thank you for the update. Cant believe it's been 3 years. You're still my favorite TV show!

[@AdobeDregsCoffee]

Good to see you all! Looks like the berm and swale are holding up and doing what you want them to! Love the variety of trees!

[@acaviness7579]

Great update!

[@CAOHnutrition]

Try some pepper trees - once established, they self-water, and they grow like the wind!

[@faithrada]

I'm still in awe that ANYTHING grows out there... so Thanks for showing both the potential AND the challenges. 👍

[@FGM013]

Eldarica (AKA Mondell or Goldwater pine) and eucalyptus were extremely popular landscape trees in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. I live in a condo in Tempe which has mostly the pines and eucalyptus with Chinese Elm and Shamel Ash. The roots of the pines lift up portions of the sidewalks. They removed five of the pines in the last week that were dead and there are still more to be removed. The increasing summer highs have accelerated the death of these trees. The eucalyptus drop branches when we have a windstorm but are still very healthy. (The eucalyptus are in the parking areas. Each unit has one covered parking space and we haven’t had major limbs fall on cars lately.🤞🤞🤞) All of the ash trees look horrible. The Chinese Elms are huge and still are very healthy. They have started to infill the areas that have lost trees with Southern Live Oak and Thevetia. I wish they would use native trees but mesquites and Palo verdes “don’t fit the architectural style of the complex”. The trees near the flood retention basins are thriving and provide welcome shade protection from the south. While I appreciate the aesthetics, the shade and the cooling effects of the several hundred trees in the complex, our water usage is incredibly high. I love seeing the progress on your homestead and recognize that some of these projects will take decades.

[@leroysmith8203]

OK guys every time you start your videos with you two sliding from left and right to the middle, it makes me laugh🤣😂. I hope you two having as much fun creating your videos, as we enjoy watching.🤓

[@lissawall6740]

It makes us smile!!😊😊

[@robinmillerkroening3493]

I can’t believe I’ve been following for more than 3 years. It’s sure been fun.❤️🙏🏻

[@williamwinston9671]

It takes about three years for a tree to get established. After that a lot of your trees may begin to really grow.

[@tegannottelling]

Saying for planting trees: First year they sleep, 2nd year they creep 3rd year they start to grow!

[@kenth151]

This is so encouraging. I have seen videos in Africa using the same idea. Keep the videos coming.

[@MelissaMalzahn]

Wow hard to believe it's been 3 years already. Living at 1500 elevation in Arizona the trees and grounds look amazing. I love my desert willows too. Hummingbirds love them too. ❤❤

[@veeemit9719]

Great up date you guys! The aerial shots, and the wild life was really nice to see😊

[@MrMountainchris]

Progress looks great, the fact that you have so many 'pests' is showing that you are creating a more habitable place. You are really creating a little piece of paradise. Please don't let your cats run wild. They seriously hurt the local wildlife and/or could become a meal for local wildlife.... Beautiful property!

[@saintracheljarodm.holy-kay2560]

👋😇👍Awesome results overall, have a good weekend and count your blessings. 👌✌️👋🙏

[@blpoohbear]

For berry trees get some cheese cloth and as the berries come in...drape the trees so the berries cam mature and birds can't get them. Not full proof but we do this with our berry bushes in New England

[@alexdoesitall469]

Hello. I am greening my own little spot (1.25 acres on the Sierra Estrella outside Goodyear, AZ) The goal was to plant 100 trees/shrubs, we even have some Vitex (Chaste) trees and Desert Willows. We have lost some trees due to the rabbits and gophers. The trees have been in the ground for about 1 year and we finally put a drip irrigation in. Yes, can all do our part, no matter how small. Keep up the good work, Tiny Shiny.

[@azsinger49]

Me again, Grew up on a ranch near Luke AFB. Ranchers planted Eucalyptus along Litchfield Road as a wing break. Those who were planted along irrigation ditches and they grew to be 50 to 80 feet tall. The wind break idea was good until during wind events, which you have experienced, very large branches fell in the road. Some ranchers took them down for that reason. Also, they produce tons of leaves and they drop them by the ton. Fire hazard, yes.

[@kevinfranck6520]

The Pinus Eldarica are called by the common name Afghan Pine because they are from the mountains in Afghanistan.They for came to the USA by way of an Arizona resident who started a plantation in Sedone Arizona called Topper Tree Farm around 1974. The tree was originally named after the Botanist who first discovered it, Mondell. Topper Tree Farm was growing them in one gallon containers and selling most to Saudi Arabia for foresting their western maountains along the Red Sea. The take extreme heat & cold. They like other pines need to have their root system colonized with symbiotic fungi which are Ectomycorrhizal. The type of fungi that will produce mushrooms or truffle. Pisolithus tinctorius is the best and this will also colonize Oak Trees. They help increase water and nutrient uptake by over 200%.

[@ColonelKlink100]

Thank you for your very helpful comment!

[@stephenpadilla4086]

I was planning to ask if they were trying to say Eldarica Pine. Thank you for posting this already before I asked!

[@vanessasouth3562]

Great job guys. Time really flies, it doesn't seem like it's been 3 years.

[@francisvanderhoven9088]

When planting trees you should fist fill the hole with water and allow it to seep into the soil. Then plant without the plastic bag this will simulate the routes to take hold and start growing immediately. Tip from a South African who has planted a few trees in his time. God Bless and keep up the work.

[@Beverly-e4z]

I'm impressed and proud of younger folk like you. You are the future so just know all of your efforts can make a difference!

[@medaily57]

I love your update videos. I am always surprised by how long I have watched you. I never would gave guessed it has been 3 years since you started the berms and swales. Looks like eucalyptus is the winner as far as the most prolific, but you need diversity. I'm looking forward to the next update in 3 more years! 😉

[@lonahaussman5181]

High desert but north of you. We love those pines. They take off after a few years and really grow quickly.

[@Inconsistent-Dogwash]

Funny that you made this video because I was wondering how the Berm and swale was doing only last week.

[@gailasgreatdanesandmanes1042]

Good Morning ☕️ exciting to see the trees and updates on the swales! I can't remember which tree i sponcered. Still exciting to see them all! I think it was a redmulberry

[@lindawilson4625]

Great update. Thank you so much! I am hoping to try this on my property.

[@phillipErskine-jk1jt]

Pine needle tea is an immunity booster. FYI. Not being bossy I think when you put more swales in try other varieties.

[@Tanks-Link]

I have some friends that live in Mojave County and they are off grid and they can't have a well on their property they went to an auction and bought a 5000 gallon water truck only paid $2500 for runs pretty good they joke about when they take it to the co-op to fill because it takes a while to fill it but they only go get water every few months

[@wendyford2252]

I just love watch whatever you post.

[@Cragsand]

You guys are so sweet!! Thank you for the update! 😊

[@kathybourdo6687]

I was thinking just this week about this exact subject! Thank you for the update.

[@karoliyer4860]

I’m so impressed with what you guys have accomplished in such a short time…. Yes short time…..I’ve planted trees everywhere I’ve lived over the last fifty years and I’ve only seen those tress in infant state , but have seen a few full grown and flourishing…. Great job , kudos to both of you……🎉

[@chandrasutton4669]

Thanks for the update!!!😊🎉❤

[@elizabethsmith1819]

great to see and follow an update of the water and tree growth situation!!

[@andrewpoole3020]

Great update, thanks. I grow lots of different pines at 5k feet a little further north in Arizona. The afghan (elderica) pines are easy to grow. However, I much prefer the native pinyons and ponderosas. The pinyons are slow growing but can handle the hot summers and cold winters well and just look beautiful all year round. Looking forward to the next update.

[@joycemazzarella2098]

I love ya'll, all of ya'll are an inspiration to me thanks for sharing, 👍👍👍✌💚

[@sandyd4922]

The best thing about the pine trees are the pinecones💚 pinecones are cool. Lol

[@billc6283]

Bonus, the Honey Locust can be an insanely thorny tree. Like 6” thorns, no joke. Be careful as they get bigger.

[@TinyShinyHome]

These are thornless

[@billc6283]

yay, that’s awesome!

[@patrickrussell1888]

​@@TinyShinyHomethe Honey Locusts are a cultivar and may do pretty good. They seem to hold up in Albuquerque which is at a similar elevation, though they may be wider than tall. They may also get better with taller trees maturing nearby.The pioneer Black Locust is the one with large thorns, though there are cultivars with smaller thorns. The Desert Willows bloomed twice this summer. I am enamered by them. Stick em in the bottom of the swale [where its sort of a dry area of the swale], creating a mini-forest that might get 20 feet high. Have you tried an Ornamental [Purple] Plum? With some water they hold their own in the heat and cold at 5,000 feet; also the Ornamental Pear is popular with some water. Also check with the oldtimers around the valley. Trees are so mysterious.

[@nomorehate9176]

Thanks for the update!

[@irenebrown8363]

❤❤❤wonderful to see all and I too understand more each time thank you for sharing imformation❤❤❤

[@sprientjealloway8363]

Sooooo cool to see it take shape! 💯

[@MrEroshan]

When you first planted those honey locust I mentioned that they don't grow well out west. I have some I planted 40 years ago that are only 12 ft tall.

[@TinyShinyHome]

We’ve seen them grow great at the local nursery. We’ll figure it out.

[@patrickrussell1888]

Thats pretty correct for the ornamental Honey Locusts.... wider than tall. Vitex in a grouping is another flowering ornamental popular in Albuquerque that takes less water, not too tall. That swale is sounding more and more like an experimental garden with some anchor trees.

[@nonoddingdog4682]

We’ve been waiting up to see the progress on the berm & swales. Haven’t watched yet……might mean I’ll make a couple of comments.

[@meen-r.d.7500]

To be in the desert the Berm and Swale work wonderfully. Keep it up guys👍

[@KarenSmith-ys3sk]

Great video as always,just a hint on the trees,I have mulberries, chaise,china berry, pine,mesquite, yucca,desert willow,cottonwood. I live in a desert 4 hours away from yall. I water them twice a week,I also buy the stick fertilizer, and that seems to help. Be patient, yalls trees will grow,it takes time. I've also cut my mesquite into trees. You all don't have yuccas or any cacti on ur property? I think I'm the only one that keeps the natural vegetation on my 4 acres. Everyone,most scrap it off. I have more quail,rabbits etc. It's their home too!

[@TinyShinyHome]

We definitely keep all the native stuff here. But the berm is kind of a whole different thing.

[@patrickrussell1888]

​@@TinyShinyHome, I also think its a popular tradition in the southwest to keep big ole dead trees, especially cottonwoods! Maybe I watched too many westerns...LOL 😊

[@deborahbasel184]

Thank you. Thank you. I've been wanting to see the progress of the swale and trees. Most are looking really healthy.

[@sallyscanlan7269]

You do have a lot of eucalyptus, they are a huge fire hazard here in Australia. Give them eight years and they will be huge. We call them “widow makers” because they will drop limbs, don’t plant them near buildings. As they grow they do affect the soil plants struggle to grow near them. Jeff Lawton doesn’t use them in swales they do use a lot of water. There are so many other plants you can use. I hope this helps.

[@TinyShinyHome]

They are appropriately placed, and can always be chopped for firewood later if they get too large. That’s part of the whole design.

[@almafriesen-se5qn]

Can the branches be cut and sold for a fresh smell indoors?

[@farmerjoe182]

That not entirely correct Sally. Eucs arent the fire hazard, its the near surface fuels that grow around them, and uneducated hoople heads that prevent effective prescribed burning programs. Healthy Eucs dont dropped branches typically, branches that fall are late growth that come from epicormic buds after a stress event. They arent anchored in the heart wood. Planted like this they will be a fantastic tree to cast some shade... maybe we should send over a couple of drop bears 😂

[@darylcampbell9897]

You plant and learn from what didn’t work. Then you plant and repeat. You are doing great. Everybody has trees they do not like mine is pine trees. But even I will admit they have there benefits.

[@patrickrussell1888]

Pines are having some challenge with global warming...as are many others. Nature around us does give some hints.

[@ahomeinpisgahontheroad4481]

Great photos and update!

[@JamesCouch777]

Thank you for the update, we were just wondering about how the berms and trees were doing.

[@shellcrestfarm]

Thanks for the update

[@sabernyari8574]

Be aware that eucalyptus have a tendacy to drop branches as they get bigger and older, "from Australia with millions of eucalyptus" LOL

[@TinyShinyHome]

Sure, they aren’t really near buildings, but we can always turn into firewood if we think they’re getting dangerous.

[@Nphen]

Thanks! I live in rainy Michigan so I love to see the desert.

[@mercedesesparza5165]

You are all doing th we best you can and that's it

[@patrickrussell1888]

Trees are pretty independent-minded!

[@codyleeser392]

This is my favorite project that you have done.

[@agneslopez6371]

Anand Malligavad did it over 3 years beautiful result, you doing an awesome job

[@spike808]

It’s really beautiful, so satisfying to see how hard work pays off. That Chinese Elm is a destroyer, sucks up all the water, proliferates like crazy, super invasive, but that’s just my experience.

[@medge734]

Swales are so interesting to me. That is actually how I found this channel.

[@ulyanadyudina6980]

Same thing

[@lymmerik]

I love the Eucalyptus trees, I have a few of the same kind myself, but I never heard that they drop sap and cause fires! Yikes, well they get good water. Good to see you all!

[@Sasklahoma]

PLEASE CHANGE THE HIGHLIGHT SIGNAL. Hey we love you all. Been watching for ever. I have a beagle that we think was a Laboratory rescue. We rehomed him in 2017. He loves watching TSH with me( loves the doodles we had 2 but they’ve both passed.). The bell sound sends Barney into EXTREME PANIC MODE. Shaking whining etc. hoping you might be able to accommodate us. If not we understand. Keep up the great videos. 🦮

[@novampires223]

Poor little guy..😢

[@LB-gr7gu]

This is a great re cap .. always rewarding to watch.. Amazing family 🙏💖

[@juneweldon680]

Each in their own time, will flourish. Good job. Good seeing how things are going for the trees. 💖

[@SolsticeOnAnOdyssey]

Thanks for this helpful update. Your Greening the Desert playlists was what really got me inspired about what is possible in the desert. It was those videos that got me interested in your challenge and from their I binged on the rest of your content.

[@killacrush3437]

I would experiment implant palm trees a couple apple trees peach trees orange trees. And I would dig a big old hole and try and make a lake for swimming

[@garethjones6082]

I'm new here what surprises me is I always picture Arizona as desert but this is sahel and it makes sense being level with other sahel's in the world, where I live (UK) we have too much water but employ the same sort of techniques to slow the water down so the rivers don't flood further dowm.

[@dantonspivey]

I replanted my back yard in San Diego with multiple trees. The trees that did the best by far were the Brazilian Pepper trees. “The Brazilian Pepper is also well known for its hardiness in desert environments and requires little care and maintenance once established.” They “prefer a warm climate with temperatures ranging between 68 to 100 ℉ (20 to 38 ℃). During the winter, they can tolerate temperatures as low as 23 ℉ (-5 ℃), but it may experience frost damage.” I think worth a try if you get an empty spot.

[@TinyShinyHome]

Yeah we get colder than that in the winter :(

[@SG-vu4qy]

Have you tried growing Moringa trees? great animal fodder and highly beneficial.

[@TinyShinyHome]

We have a few, but we're right on the elevation break point so we're not sure if they'll make it.

[@SG-vu4qy]

@@TinyShinyHome i heard "tiny trees" on your review. I have an accidental "tip" I treated free wood pallets to make them look nice, natural and last longer. 3-4 of them around each little tree tied together with baling wire, to protect them from my goats. what happened, they did not get sun/wind scald and doubled in height in one summer. that was a happy blessing!

[@SamsLiberty]

Love it; can't wait to work on mine! Good to see the varieties that are thriving. Have you considered a Navajo Globe Willow on the west side of the dome? Can I buy you one?😁

[@TinyShinyHome]

Nope, our local nursery never recommended them. I'm assuming there was some reason, but not 100% sure. They look cool, though!

[@nathanwall8169]

The mulberries might be having a hard time because they rootbound . Treat it like a bonsai and hack or de tangle the roots. Pruning helps shed roots and can help with the bound roots

[@jaredoz957]

Thank you! Ashley's Bob hope impersonation is on point. ;-)

[@wandaspaabeck4996]

So impressed with the progress! Definitely a long-term project and your grandchildren will thank you for your foresight 🙂

[@jo-ellenbass2261]

Some trees just grow slower than others. I love that you have hackberry trees in your mix. They take a while to get big, but are great for birds.

[@AlyenasKitchen]

Loved learning about your Berm. Wildlife is great until it starts eating and killing your plants and garden! Do you get deer eating from your homestead? Always love the beautiful cinematic b roll! Someone has a great eye for catching nature’s beauty at its best!😊🍁🍂

[@TinyShinyHome]

Thanks! Deer don't come over our permiter fence

[@AlyenasKitchen]

@ oh that’s right. You have that great electric fence. I was wondering if they jumped it. We electrified our garden and now we get to eat our food!😃

[@TinyShinyHome]

I think they don't come over because of the fence and the Pyrenees guardian dogs.

[@Starrynightdiner]

It’s not fair. You two get younger and cuter every year. ❤❤❤

[@marlafreeman6108]

Enjoyed the tree update Thank you for sharing. I get a lot of ideas for my own place from your channel 😊. You guys are awesome

[@lindajohnson6163]

Just watched this episode and I thought you might like to hear a couple of things I don't know you may already know them. You could this planted all over California to use for railroad ties when they were building the rail road. Mulberries were encouraged on the East Coast because someone had the idea that silkworms would eat them and they could cut into the silkworm trade., and lastly, I don't know if honey Locust is the same but here I burn Locust and it's a great hardwood to burn but my guess is because it's such a hardwood, maybe it's slow growing as well....