cooked

You need either a quick acting contact herbicide, that will burn off the leaves but leave the roots intact, most people here would recommend using Roundup, called something like Glyfosat here. You can apply with a watering can in the evening. Maybe this thread should be in the plants and pets forum.

thx a lot sir. there are actually more than what u see in the pic.

Can't help as such, though nice flowers.

The pine needles might act as a mulch to reduce evaporation of what water is available.

I guess they grow naturally in the best environment that suits them.

Be interested to know if you get a definitive answer.

Z. carinata

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It helps when you have a fixed income and no fortune, a lot. I could walk away tomorrow (I won't) with the same income as I have today. I help the hard working family around us when I can, they have helped me out in time of need. I fix up the home and pay the bills. I wonder if problems like this lay with people that have a few millions to spend? I do all construction work myself so I don't go paying crooks and imbeciles to build a house that is over sized for our needs.

Where do Thailand import their mangoes from..?

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Did the OP overlook the big yellow sticky that said, post on April 1st ?

oh boy, 24 posts of indignant holier than thou stuff, this would have gone on for 200 posts... maybe it will. last year it was about Thailand switching over to driving on the right inside of three months. Quite a few responses to that one.

And your contribution to the topic is?

Someone has been reading an anonymous forum and developed a superiority complex!

TOMORROW is the first of April. If you don't know what that means, Google it, even if you did always want to be a psychologist.

Did the OP overlook the big yellow sticky that said, post on April 1st ?

oh boy, 24 posts of indignant holier than thou stuff, this would have gone on for 200 posts... maybe it will. last year it was about Thailand switching over to driving on the right inside of three months. Quite a few responses to that one.

You were lucky to find such a rich blossom. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zephyranthes

I took some home with me from Chiang Mai and as mentioned in the Wikipedia page, they bloomed the first time it rained last year although they had had sufficient watering. This year, they bloomed one day before the first rain of the season, last week. It took me ages to find the name as I thought it was a Liliaceae.

Hey, you are one day too early with this one

As happens often, it rained a little when the trees were flowering here, so very few mangoes. On top of that due to the scarcity, people go around at night and knock down the green mangoes to make pok pok. We saw a couple of bamboo poles in our mango trees out in the fields this morning, haven't been out to check yet.

- Don't buy vet products they are expensive and ineffective.

- Do regular check on your dogs and just take the bloody things out yourself ie; Pinch the tick's belly between 2 fingers until it explodes, it will come out.

- Use aromatherapy to repel them as much as poss, it is cheap, natural, and parasites don't get used to it. Spray them regularly with lavender + geranium diluted in water or cider vinegar.

Works marvel on soi dogs

If you pinch the ticks belly you leave the head embedded in the dog and also release infective fluids from the ticks guts.

Not recommended at all.

I pull them off with tweezers, my wife uses her fingers. i assure you that the beasts are still very active and busy before I squash them. How else can you remove them? The special tick tweezers don't get in to the nooks and crannies of a dog's ears and paws.

To combat ticks you need to know something about their life cycle. A female can lay 5 000 - 20 000 eggs in one go. These eggs can lay around for years before they hatch and of course they don't all hatch at the same time. If this happens in your house, spraying won't do much good as the eggs are difficult to eradicate with arachnicide. However if you do notice the bloody things going up the wall (very small) then you can spray. As mentioned above, a good cleaning with a vacuum cleaner helps also, you have to pull the furniture away from the walls which is a job in itself. We bought a knapsack sprayer and use Bayticol; if I have left overs then we at least stick the dogs feet into a tub of the stuff (seems to be where most of the attacks take place) then dilute it further and wash them down.

I just sprayed this morning after covering our food and the pets' food, putting clothes back in the wardrobes. Then a 2 hour shopping expedition and come back to open windows and doors, turn on fans and air conditioning. Spraying is a serious business, I use a mask and sweat buckets. I then have to go out and shower with the garden hose and change clothes. From hatching, the beasts go through three metamorphoses so you are winning if you only find the small ones, they can't lay eggs, but you still have thousands of eggs around.

The vet's injection (฿80.-) reduced the infestation on some of our dogs but not all.

So I don't think that there is a simple solution, just keep trying.

Damn.

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Well think of it this way: go back to the UK 50 years ago and you would find all of that apart from the climate. People north of 'Uddersfield couldn't speak English either.

The OP may be provoking you guys. However the answers he got are unnecessarily unpleasant.

Posts every 2.5 to 3.0 meters.

Two people can do 20 posts a day easily, make sure they do the corner posts first and stretch a line!. The line will sag at the middle, make them correct for that! Weld the fence to the posts if you must, I never did, Think about tying it to the posts with wire, you can get a nice tension just by doing that correctly. Weld maybe every 15 meters or so, again if you must.

Anyway the fence doesn't need to be pulled really tight as a tight fence is easier to get over than a wonky one. I reckon 30 meters a day is easily doable once the posts are in place, more like 60. All the same I would put in diagonal posts on any corners/ changes in direction.

The holes for the posts should be at least 60 cm deep ( I am not joking) and the posts at least 190cm long for a fence height of 150cm.

So: 120 posts = 6 days x 2 = ฿6000.-

Laying out and mounting the fence, 5 days x 2 = ฿5000.-. (฿500.- a day each)

They should be happy with ฿20 000.-

I did many kilometers of fences in my time.

The collect transliteration is 'Fak khiu', a rare phrase only to be used in the presents of pedants.

Try making eye contact in London . It may take you all day.

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My posting here 'Iron deficiency' got a lot of results and I actually managed to find a packet of stuff that only contains trace elements. (thanks guys).

I am surprised that your lawn fertiliser contains CaCO3 as most grasses prefer a slightly acidic environment. Iron (Fe) is also an essential ingredient of lawn fertiliser, MgO is also desirable

16-16-16 + TE.seems like an odd combination also, generally they have the accent on Nitrogen for quick results. Dunno, maybe there is a danger of too much cheap Nitrogen burning the lawn..

..and then again you have the Chinese-Thais, what a stony faced uncommunicative and unfriendly lot many of them are, not just with Farangs, with other Thais also.

Look they could open a brothel at least if you go in the hole the trip there more fun. Look You might not know but do you end up giving them what they say they lost? Because just saying they do look at us as ATM's, But as crops go I would grow pot risk yes but profit great and since there Thai's police might turn blind eye for a good bribe and a cut of the action, even help find buyer's which they in turn bust and resell haul.

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Great stuff, Packdee, I wish you all a good meeting, looks like a good one. I just bought 5 sacks of cement and that's me completely out of money until around the 8th of April.

Forgot about ginger

they are good at growing debts

this is funnie! now go away.....................lol.

im kidding.

Dirty little secret here. Family farms willl never make it. How does toothless ma and pa compete with billion dollar producers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They cold grow GOLD nuggets and they prolly still lose money!

I'm afraid that you are correct. Nobody in our village farming under the age of 40, Chinese repossessing land because of unpaid debts, also some dishonest taking over of land without title. Everything seems to indicate that this is the way things are trending, the rice scheme is just one factor in this. We have almost uniquely subsistence farmers around here, only my son in law seems to be ready to really work and try things, so I guess that in 10 - 15 years only old people will be living here, looking after grandchildren, the fields will be worked by immigrants working for the Chinese.