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I wouldn't put salt on the ground in my garden...it is bad for the soil.  For slugs I put a tablespoon or two of salt in a quart jar and then fill it 10-20% with water.  I plant dwarf marigolds around the edge of the vege garden and slugs love to eat them.  Every morning I take a pair of chopsticks which I keep for this purpose and I go and pick the slugs off of the marigolds and drop them in the salt water.   Also I put old boards on the ground in damp areas (or use a hose to make a wet area) and in the morning I turn the boards over and voila!!! lots of slugs like to hang out on the underside of the boards...I pick these and put them in the salt water too.  The salt water dissolves them...if you have a big garden you may very well end up with an entire quart of salty slug juice!!!! yummy!!!!    no no no not  really...just joking...even in Thailand they wouldn't eat salty slug juice!!!  At first you'll get quite a few (if you have them at all)  but after a few days you will notice that there really aren't very many any more....but you've got to do it every day for a while...twice a day is better...until you get the population down...then you can miss a day now and again with no big problem resulting.

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Howdy Everyone,

As far as the slugs and snails go.For many years we have kept them under control almost to the point of having none.The trick to it is to give them a drink!!Around every garden that I have had I place (as many as needed) pie plates level with the ground and fill with BEER!In the states we call it the snail bar !It works fantastic.Snails love a good beer.They snife it out, belly up to the bar and climb on in for a drink and then drown from drunkenes.Snails LOVE beer.I guees the only draw back to this is you have to supply the beer, word gets around that you have a snail bar and all the neighberhood snails come for a drink.But hey it really does work.

Lovekindness to All,

Gee

Howdy Everyone,

We are planing on building 2 homes just north of PhiMai off of A2.The first Thai style home we would like to start building around Nov Dec.We will use this as a "hotel" whenever we visit the mooban.This is a home for the "family".Around 2013 we will be moving to Issan and at that time would like to build a home simaler to #2 home in the photos.

I am wondering what the cost to build each would be in this area.We already have the land so it is just the cost of the homes.I know the cost of the 2nd home will be different 8 years from now.This should be the link to the photos.

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/geebro2003/a...m/ph//my_photos

Lovekindness to All,

Gee

Howdy Everyone,

Would just like to add that I have now gotten some plans drawn up for the home that we are going to build in Nov.If you go to..... http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/geebro2003/d...8&.dnm=b5e7.jpg

I have added it so you will be able to see the plans,part of them that is.Still looking for a cost estimate of this home in the Phi Mai area.It is as you can see an Issan Village style home.

Lovekindness to All,

Thanks,Gee

Hi,

My wife brought some kapow - ?????? seeds here to farang land and we planted it.

Its growing ok, but something seems to be eating the leaves right after they germinate. Any ideas? I've sprayed it with multiple sprays yet every morning when we go look, something is chowing down bigtime.

Sean

Howdy Sean,

We had the same problem with something eating our herbs.Mainly the hot and sweet basil.Same as you.We finaly found out that it is a type of weval that is enjoying the fruits of our labor and leaving us with the stems.We noticed that the basil that was close to the garlic chives or green onions seemed to have less of a problem of being eaten.We planted green onions all around and in between the basil plants and now after about 4 weeks YEPPEEEEEEE!!!!The basil is now supplying our need and then some!!Give it a try.Oh to start with we also would look for and remove any bugs that we could find a couple of times a day.

Lovekindness to All

Howdy Everyone,

We are planing on building 2 homes just north of PhiMai off of A2.The first Thai style home we would like to start building around Nov Dec.We will use this as a "hotel" whenever we visit the mooban.This is a home for the "family".Around 2013 we will be moving to Issan and at that time would like to build a home simaler to #2 home in the photos.

I am wondering what the cost to build each would be in this area.We already have the land so it is just the cost of the homes.I know the cost of the 2nd home will be different 8 years from now.This should be the link to the photos.

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/geebro2003/a...m/ph//my_photos

Lovekindness to All,

Gee

Howdy Everyone,

My thoughts where that their health issues stem from the dreaded “Lao Khow”.

I think the same way out of my experiance with "Lao Khow"and the men in the village.

Whilst at home I drink rain water straight out of the concrete jugs all year round, no problems thus far and it’s particularly nice and sweet now the season has turned.

I also have always drank rain water from the LARGE concrete jugs.But let me say first that I did not know that I was drinking rain water until my 3rd visit to the village.But I do still continue to drink it and have never had a problem.

We did have a problem with bottled water in the village a couple of years back:- A working girl bought her latest snare (a Scandinavian) home to meet Mum and Dad, after inspecting "Ap Nam" the culture shock was so severe that they had to buy up every drop of bottled water so as he could wash himself before catching the first set of wheels out of here. Left us with a severe shortage of the commodity.

This is great!!!!!!!!The chap is best to stay in Scandinavia,for his own sanity.

Lovekindness to all

Hey as I understand the "company route" is really expinsave if you are only trying to get it to live on.

Howdy everyone,

Why do Thai's bend over three times in front of Buddha,and also three times to there pillow before sleep in the bed?

Thanks,Greg

hello everyone,

I am new to this forum and have a Q.I see people talk about buying land.I thought that as a US citizen I was not allowed to own land in the kingdom.I hope I am wrong.I plan to retire with my Thai wife north of Korat and would like to build a home and own the property also.

Lovekindness to all,

Greg

Howdy people,

I will be in Chiang Mai the end of Nov.I am from South Florida the sub tropics and was wondering what the temprature is like at that time.

Lovekindness to all,

Greg