Extending My Desert Orchard
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ก.พ. 2021
- Every year I buy and plant more trees to extend my orchard in the high desert of Southern Arizona. This year I bought peach, apricot and cherry trees, and blueberry bushes.
I buy all my trees from treesofantiquity.com/ -- I highly recommend them.
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good for you...keep investing in your orchard! I should have planted fruit trees years ago...
That's exactly what I'm doing. I keep on telling people, "it's an investment"
Man hoping you can grow those blueberries there cause when i head out that direction would love to grow some of my own!
Yeah, I'm going to give it a good shot. I'll definitely make some updates on how they're doing. Also, please do come visit when you're next down here!
How are you dealing with the soil alkalinity issue for your blueberries? What part of az are you in?
I don't have a set plan yet, but I'm researching what I can do to increase the acidity of the soil. I'm in Cochise County (SE AZ)
@@NuweBlareHomestead if you put them into the ground, it will be hard. the soil will always get the PH of the surrounding area after some time. i ripped mine out and put them into 90L containers after they did bad for over a year and one already died. if your PH isn fitting in the area, better dont try to fight the PH and put them into container. you can also dig those containers in, but good luck in trying to lower the PH just with mulch ect. it wont work :(
@@NuweBlareHomestead Mulch using the pine needles from your tree. As they break down they'll make the soil more acidic.
Thanks Hans, I'll definitely consider that. I'm getting a soil PH meter and some amendments to help acidify the soil, but if things don't look like they're working, I'll probably pull them out as you suggested.
Hi Lori, we don't have any pine trees. We mostly have mesquite, and then also some cottonwoods, and a few other types of trees.