Medjool Dates Fruit & Medjool Date Palm Trees » grapefruit 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 Growing Stuff In Between Date Palms http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/2009/07/30/growing-stuff-in-between-date-palms/ http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/2009/07/30/growing-stuff-in-between-date-palms/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:43:29 +0000 Pina http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/?p=42 Historically date palms are spaced at significant distances.  About 20 feet or more.  In between there is a lot of empty space.  This empty space is used often used to plant vegetables or other fruit trees.  Sometimes apricots, figs, lemons, limes, and grapefruit trees are planted inbetween the date palms.  It is pretty much the practice regardless of whether the date palm is a medjool date plam or a deglet noor date palm.  This was and is a means of making better use of the land and water.  Flooding is often used as a means of irrigating date palm orchards, but the practice is changing.  Some date palm orchards are irrigated with very efficient drip systems.

]]> http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/2009/07/30/growing-stuff-in-between-date-palms/feed/ 0 A Balloon Ride In Palm Springs http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/2009/07/28/a-balloon-ride-in-palm-springs/ http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/2009/07/28/a-balloon-ride-in-palm-springs/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:53:12 +0000 Pina http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/?p=40 Among the toursit attractions in the winter time in the Palm Springs are is balloon rides.  There are lots of hot hair balloon rides in the winter time.  From  up high in the balloons the people look down and see the neatly rows of medjool date palms and deglet noor date palms.  They may look down on the rows of pink grapefruit or the grape vines.   Sometimes the dumb operators decided to drop down on open farmfields inbetween the medjool date palm rows or inbetween the citrus orchards.  As they come down they cause damage to the new crops just coming out.  The tourists climb down destroying the young vegetable plants that are just a few days old.   The poor farmers upset complain and the baloon ride operators brush it off with an I am sorry.  So passes another day in the medjool date palm lined streets of the Coachella Valley.

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