Medjool Dates Fruit & Medjool Date Palm Trees » date farm http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog Medjool Dates, Dates Dried Fruit, Dried Fruit, Fresh Fruit, Nutrition Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:19:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Starting Your Own Medjool Date Farm http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/2011/08/30/starting-your-own-medjool-date-farm/ http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/2011/08/30/starting-your-own-medjool-date-farm/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 03:56:55 +0000 Pina http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/?p=320 A lot of people dream about starting their own farm, very few dream about starting a medjool date farm or any other date farm for that matter.  Starting a date farm is no small feat and it is really something that should not be undertaken by someone that is too old.  Too old for the purpose of starting a medjool date farm is really anything over 50.  A date farm will not start producing fruit for about 5 years after planting 3 year old shoots.  If you are 50, you may be 55 or older by the time of the first harvest.  The tree will not mature until it is about 10 years old that would make 60 if you start at 50.  A medjool date farm is really a business to leave for your children and grand children, except that is very hard work and you have enjoy living in the desert, where it is 90 degrees in the middle of the night !  The first step is to buy a land in the desert with water.  Then you prepare the soil level the land and prepare a drip irrigation system.  Then you big your holes and prep them.  Then you get your shoots and plant them.   The success rate for shoots is about 70%, if you buy them in planters it is closer to 100%.  After you plant them you have to water them and get the drip irrigation system going immediately and even flood the field.  Then you put in a lot of time and effort and invest a lot for the next 5 years.  Then you are ready for your first harvest, probably about 100 pounds for every 5 acres, you will find that it is not enough to pay your bills for one month.  Then 10 years later you will finally have a decent harvest and decide that it was not worth it, except that if you have plenty of land you will find that you have now planted four times more acreage than you started.  Another 10 years and you have a viable business, or in the alternate you may just buy an existing farm and cut the wait time out to a few months.

GHTime Code(s): nc  ]]> http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/2011/08/30/starting-your-own-medjool-date-farm/feed/ 0 It is August And It is Hot http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/2009/08/10/it-is-august-and-it-is-hot/ http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/2009/08/10/it-is-august-and-it-is-hot/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:35:54 +0000 Pina http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/?p=57 I was driving highway 111 through palm desert and then Indian wells.  The streets where lined with date palms.  Lots of very old tall date palms.  Date palms can grow to about 120 years or more.  I was enthusiastic about going to the medjool date farm, but only made it to La Quinta.  It was just too hot, unbelievably hot.  I lost my enthusiasm.  I had seen the medjool dates were covered to protect them from rain, birds, and insects, but had no motivation to continue this day.  I decided a nice long nap would be much more enjoyable than a trip to the medjool date farm.  The date farm will be there next month when the first medjool dates start to come out.

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