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Sneak Peak - Manambe Lavaka 2018


MattyB

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It's been about 5 years since I've shared some videos of the garden and it's filled in nicely since then.  I think I'll take some more videos if you guys are interested.  Here's a sneak peak to wet yer whistle....

 

 

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Matt Bradford

"Manambe Lavaka"

Spring Valley, CA (8.5 miles inland from San Diego Bay)

10B on the hill (635 ft. elevation)

9B in the canyon (520 ft. elevation)

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Looking good as always Matt.  Pretty sure I spotted a triple clinostigma in there that is starting to look real nice!

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Sweet. Nice palm spacing. Your garden is looking more and more like Mardy Darian’s garden. 

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Len

Vista, CA (Zone 10a)

Shadowridge Area

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-- Alfred Austin

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So many gorgeous palms that are unexpected in SoCal -- or at least not expected to look so healthy. :greenthumb:

And a lava-free zone to boot! Well done.

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Kim Cyr

Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow
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Attention to the soil condition has paid dividends! Organic material and earthworm action has created a palm oasis in desert conditions. :D

Coral Gables, FL 8 miles North of Fairchild USDA Zone 10B

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Amazing little rain forest there matt. Really great garden.

Jupiter FL

in the Zone formally known as 10A

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Amazing Matt!!!

What is your water system? Drippers or sprinklers? And the water frecuency?

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Amazing Matt!!!

What is your water system? Drippers or sprinklers? And the water frecuency?

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Hi Matt;  Things are looking great !  Thanks!   

A request, though;  Please could you narrate the species ID and also discuss the quantity of water for these beautiful plants ?  This would be really helpful, and your thread would be more than eye candy. Thanks very much,  :)

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San Francisco, California

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Just curious, do you have a gopher problem in your area like Bill has? 

Searle Brothers Nursery Inc.

and The Rainforest Collection.

Southwest Ranches,Fl.

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Great progress Matty! Seems like yesterday you were showing your newly purchased "barren" property. It's looking amazing! Let's see more. 

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Jim in Los Altos, CA  SF Bay Area 37.34N- 122.13W- 190' above sea level

zone 10a/9b

sunset zone 16

300+ palms, 90+ species in the ground

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Amazing Matt! If it were wet and had some coqui frogs chirping it could almost be Puerto Rico.

I can only imagine the hard work and passion you spend every week.

Well, I guess I can imagine since, that's how I spend every day on my land...

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AWESOME specimens!!!!  

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Ok, I'll make some more videos. I'll try to answer the questions:

I do have gophers.  Boy do I have them.  However, I've trapped well over a hundred gophers over the last 11 years and by knocking the population back it's pretty easy to get the upper hand on them now.  I continually have gopher invasions and I'm constantly looking for evidence while I'm walking around but it's just one here, one there, certainly not enough to have a reproductive population, and I trap them very quickly.  It used to be that I had 20 active gophers all over the place working at any given time.  Planting in wire cages was the only thing that saved my plants while I could try to get a trap down.  Nowadays I don't even plant in cages anymore.

Watering. The area shown in the video is on drip irrigation buried below the mulch.  Each tree has (2) ea. 2gph drippers (the royals have (3) ea.) and the system is ran twice a week for anything between 1.5 and 2 hrs depending on the time of year.

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Matt Bradford

"Manambe Lavaka"

Spring Valley, CA (8.5 miles inland from San Diego Bay)

10B on the hill (635 ft. elevation)

9B in the canyon (520 ft. elevation)

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53 minutes ago, MattyB said:

Ok, I'll make some more videos.

Great we all will be looking forward to seeing them!  For me it will be a little fix so I'll know what to look for when I finally get down to your place.  Spectacular!  Expect a call sometime soon.

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Matt, I remember your early topics when your palms where in wire cages. What a transformation 10 years on. :greenthumb:

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Bump bump again . . .

 

 

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Love your garden Matt.

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Frothing to see it in person.

The pictures and article in the new Palm Journal are amazing.

 

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On 5/11/2018 at 6:51 PM, MattyB said:

Ok, I'll make some more videos. I'll try to answer the questions:

I do have gophers.  Boy do I have them.  However, I've trapped well over a hundred gophers over the last 11 years and by knocking the population back it's pretty easy to get the upper hand on them now.  I continually have gopher invasions and I'm constantly looking for evidence while I'm walking around but it's just one here, one there, certainly not enough to have a reproductive population, and I trap them very quickly.  It used to be that I had 20 active gophers all over the place working at any given time.  Planting in wire cages was the only thing that saved my plants while I could try to get a trap down.  Nowadays I don't even plant in cages anymore.

Watering. The area shown in the video is on drip irrigation buried below the mulch.  Each tree has (2) ea. 2gph drippers (the royals have (3) ea.) and the system is ran twice a week for anything between 1.5 and 2 hrs depending on the time of year.

It looks amazing!  What traps and techniques do you use on the gophers?

thanks

Dan

Foggy San Francisco

Average Monthly Hi 60.2 F

Average Monthly Lo 49.9 F

Avearge Monthy 55.2F

Average Summer Hi 61.8F

Average Winter Lo 45.8

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Wow, fought the battle with the gophers and won, and a gorgeous garden!  So many gorgeous specimens, a great environment to live in.   I remember the tires and all the dirt spreading, the irrigation design, and now the results are fantastic!  Congrats matty!

Formerly in Gilbert AZ, zone 9a/9b. Now in Palmetto, Florida Zone 9b/10a??

 

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