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!!

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.

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. 🙃

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.

Would love to see more Healthy Farm Living! Your kombucha video is 💯

I love Lori on camera!

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!!

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.

I had to leave early but listened to the ending afterward. I am thrilled that you are going to do this more often.

Have a productive early Elberta peach here in St George/Washington, ut zone 8 with not many chill hours.

Check out the EcoWitt line of WiFi soil moisture equipment, its on my order list.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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).