7 Steps to Grow a Food Forest in Arizona's Desert
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ส.ค. 2024
- These are some tips that I have personally worked through to help develop an edible food forest.
1. Don't Skip Steps
2. Set goals and stick with them.
3. Building a living soil.
4. Water
5. Micro climate
6. Be in the garden every day.
7. Soil test and staying organic.
I am in the Gila Valley, Graham County. Aquiring a peice of land and educating myself on how to turn my desert property into a food forest. Thankyou for this video.
Hello! My husband and I are thinking of moving to Arizona and are very curious about food forest viability there. Have you had any success yet?
I'll start off by letting you know I moved from Arizona a year ago.
I did have some great success growing a food forrest in AZ. The amount of variety you can grow is amazing. The heat does limit you on some items but overall it has an amazing growing season.
This video really sums up what to look at when getting started.
@@ielyzavetagladka5146 we are in Arizona and finally getting things going
Very nice
I learn so much from you, The Garden Nerd, Edge of Nowhere Farm and Surfview Garden. We’ve been building soil for the past six years that we’ve owned our house here in Arizona with amazing results. Great info and thank you for sharing.
Thanks
Edge of Nowhere farm is awesome!!! We love them!!
They are great
Really interesting. I’m just starting a mini food forest in our backyard in California and I find so many food forest videos are people with cooler climates and some info just doesn’t work as well in our climate. This is the first video I have seen talking about how you have to do things a bit differently in hot dry climates. Thanks so much!
Happy I can help
That's what I'm talking about
Great video, this is what I was looking for. I just got an acre in high desert, same situation. Can’t wait!
Very nice
Excellent update, so much information, we will definitely pay attention to the steps for future growth, thanks for sharing the video 😎👍
Thanks I did a more detailed one on the watering.
@@FruitTree just watched it. Awesome way of watering the area. I know you mentioned most of the split offs we're new, do you have additional plans to bury them with mulch?
Yeah im hoping for another chip drop soon if not ill get a truck load of compost
@@FruitTree it's amazing how FAST wood chips and mulch get broken down. I'm always amazed when I'm down on the orchard floor of how thin the layer is compared to when I piled the mulch on just a few days ago!
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We have 20-year-old sprinkler lines that we are constantly repairing tiny leaks throughout the year. I know eventually a total replacement is in store, but that's going to be a ton of work!
Just do it when it's nice out
You had me at the tree hugger pic! Awesome education- thank you!
Thanks that was a little ways in. Thanks for watching
Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
My pleasure
We're having pretty good luck so far by using swales and mulch. Finding pit gardens work the best. We're in the Mohave desert with only 8 inches of rain. Completely off grid having to hand water. The combo of pits and mulch has made it easier. Thanks for sharing.
Happy to
I agree!! It's been 2 weeks since I watered my fruit trees and it's still very moist under my wood chips.
Thanks for being so helpful!
Amazing video 👍
Thanks
Micelium is basically a web of fungus under the coil the exchanges minerals with trees for nutrient all forest have a massive network in the coil that allows trees that don't have what they need to communicate help from other trees this is why I'm the forest most trees are very healthy
Nice Yard!
Loved this video it is awesome. Please do one detailed about setting the water system and which trees need rain type and which ones need more of an irrigation time. How many days to water. Time so on.
Also how to care specifically citrus trees. Thank you for sharing and making this videos!
I have a citrus video check it out. Im actually uploading a watering video now. Should be up once it processes in 4k.
@@FruitTree awsome thanks I dont know if i missed it or for got it, lol thanks!
Howdee from Florence Arizona!
Howdee back at ya
Thanks for the share. Interesting. I don't have flood either. I have a commercial timer with backup now that allow me just to press one button, select a zone & water automatically. I initially began installing Drip Line Over 20 yrs ago. You have to PERFECT it. The quality & effort you put IN will create the results that come OUT. SAFELY bury it underground. Only connect where you need to connect. Replace valves & clean them "occasionally" but other than accidently hitting the 1/2 in tubing with a shovel while planting, I have NOT had to replace any of it---Other than one section under a concrete drive-way 2 Plus Yrs ago---other than drippers here & there. Sure, I may have to replace the whole system eventually. It is VERY efficient and I have a forest everywhere. I still have a sprinkler system in one area. I actually have had to repair that more often. But I don't like to water overhead with our hard water--it is not healthy for certain plants. Groundcovers not only provide the benefits you mentioned, but also allow microbial life to expand in the upper surface, which contains some of the best soil & a high level of organics. They may bring in pollinators as well :) Cheers...
Fantastic
If you develop your forest with the right trees you won't have to water once so ever but this requires lots of planning and good timing I will teach how to do this once I buy land
Time and planning
As always, great video Brian. My issue has always been placement and organizing my yard. Ohh and being afraid of making mistakes. It takes awhile to grow a tree and for it to bear fruit. What if my placement is wrong in the long run? Trying to account for possible pools, fire pits, grass for the pups or even kids stuff is kind of what my issues are. Luckily my yard is bear so that is at least an easier start than having to rip out something that was already completed
Great man. You can do it. Sometimes I wish my yard was empty so I could re plan it.
I live in the north west corner of AZ, so I understand sun evaporation, but I recommend watering early, early in the morning instead of at night. Early morning allows the water to dry on the leaves throughout the day, but if you water at night, you are more susceptible to rot and other diseases because the water on the surface doesn't evaporate enough and makes the plant water logged. My dad planted and grew his own grass seed when we lives in CA and he's worked with sprinklers and installing them for years and he would always water in the morning, never afternoon or evening and his grass was always so green that people would ask if we had a golf course. lol But even when we lived in Florida, it rained every day between 2pm and 5pm in the Summer, but that's the hottest time of day in AZ and that would be a terrible idea here. I suppose my thoughts are operating on assumption because you didn't give an exact time of evening that you watered, and I was assuming that you water after 5, closer to 8pm because that's usually when the sun goes down. Anyway, I'm just saying that if you are struggling with any disease or a decrease in health or production, consider watering in the morning.
Well I don't water at all now and I love it
I struggled to grow grass and keep the weeds down. My scientist neighbor told me to water at the hottest part of the day. I said no, it’ll burn the grass. He said, no... photosynthesis will make the grass strong and healthy. He was right. I watered my brown weeds every day in the summer around 2- 3 pm. I had the healthiest lawn and garden on the block... except his, of course.
I was in Tempe, Arizona.
Would love to learn more about your watering setup. I am installing irrigation this winter after hand watering with a hose all summer. Do you get mineral build up on trunks or fences? What would you change if you were to do it again?
Well I've re done it several times lots of trial and error. If I were to do it again I think I would have long pvc poles go above the trees to avoid hitting the trunks. My walls are painted with a latex paint.
Water with a hose by hand. Best way to know what your plants are doing
If you have the time I 100% agree
How do you have your water set up. Would love to move away from drip to something else. This looks good.
I will do a video this week on my water set up
Manure is good for lowering PH too.
I live 5 minutes away by car from the sea in Portugal. My soil is very much dirt with no life at all, so I am considering 1 of 2 things: removing some of the soil and switching with a good one (need to call a gardening company for that), or sticking to this soil and trying to build upon it. From the steps I saw on this video it appears that option 2 is viable is that correct? We can completly turn a lifeless soil into a soil where fruit trees can grow as long as we continue to feed the soil with organic matter (and all the other steps) right?
Absolutely. As life is added it will mix into your current soil and you will change the soil completely
We just moved to our spot in AJ. We have two and a half acres and I have been getting wood chips delivered for a bit... over the past four months.. and been building up my soil...in a few spots. Now that they have been spread where I want them.. do I need to til them in to get the benefit or just keep topping the soil?
Do I need to mix dirt into the chips or can I just plant in it with soil around the plants I am putting in?
I would just spread them eventually and let nature do its thing. They will be decomposed in 6 months id they get enough water
Love AZ growing but Pete Kanaris says what's growing on. Wish you the best
Many do. My channel has videos back to 2011 saying it. I'm ok if he uses it. It's not mine.
Say what!? I had no idea. Congratulations! Where are you moving to?
We are moving to Tennessee
Why don't you just have your family members put in gutters that can direct your roof water into cisterns (water barrels) and/or basins to water your trees?
Good tip. I plan on growing every seed I got this year.
Too long winded
Thanks for the feedback. This was somewhat my goodbye to AZ trying to cram in everything I learned in a video
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