^ I am surprised Ron was up so early this morning, to make a post this morning, after all that hard work of planting 7 coconuts yesterday!

Spearmint! .... must pick off those developing flowers, so they don't cross pollinate! ..... that will be about it for me today!

SJ,

Yeah, better go in and rest now. One can get worn out pretty quickly picking flower buds off of mint plants. Probably time for a vacation as well!

^ Mine's bigger than yours!...

More lining the streets of Samui!

Bragging again.

Yep!!! ^ .... I took Fiddlesticks advice and had a holiday today, after picking the flowers off the mint plant...

I saw this in my travels... it's a big one too!

Then decided to head to the beach! (Lamai)

Yep!!! ^ .... I took Fiddlesticks advice and had a holiday today, after picking the flowers off the mint plant...

I saw this in my travels... it's a big one too!

Then decided to head to the beach! (Lamai)

So, is that you, collapsed on the beach, exhausted from trimming your mint plants? You must learn to pace yourself and not do all 10 plants in one day!

.... ^ stop it!!!

That's enough bull.... ! ....

Rice stubble and a temple sunset.

Cabbages & cabbages.

Time to get up and into it for another day.

Taking the buffalo home to sleep! .... after a hard day of grazing!

Walkies!

Farmer taking a rest in the shade of his mammoth sugar cane.

Sharp as a razor

The farmer in the photo above was stripping the outside layers of the sugarcane so I could taste the sugarcane for myself.

Gigantasorus suger cane wow! nice pics shaggy

My pics are a little bit modest compared to the huge sugercane pics but i will post them anyway.

Papaya

Small corn field

Lemongrass across from the corn field.

Passionfruit growing in the trees

More papayas with herbs I think it is basil or thyme someone please correct me if it is not

" The Isaan Cowboy "

" The Isaan Cowboy "

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Nice low perspective!

I appreciate your constructive critic' , thanks Fiddlesticks .

" The Isaan Cowboy "

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Nice low perspective!

I like the farming atmosphere(Farm smoke, workers in the background and the shady cowboy).

[edit] Was it sunset or sunrise, Goompa?

A cauliflower being passed from a Thai to a Farang hand at dawn.

Refer to post #3166 , DAL , was in the morning mate , I had to crop out the glare a fair bit though.

The highs and lows of pig farming

^ So excited to see you.... eh... Shaggy!

Bananas and Coconut farm, side road on Samui!

Loading the truck that transports the timber to a plywood factory.The farmer gets 400 baht per tonne.

^ 400 baht per tonne.... that's a lot of work!

I've never seen this b4 today.... catching the running rubber in plastic bags! ..... what happened to coconut shells?

^ 400 baht per tonne.... that's a lot of work!

I've never seen this b4 today.... catching the running rubber in plastic bags! ..... what happened to coconut shells?

Cutbacks maybe SJ . I would worry myself for the longevity of the plastic bags , but I am sure that trial and error has produced this method .

^ 400 baht per tonne.... that's a lot of work!

I've never seen this b4 today.... catching the running rubber in plastic bags! ..... what happened to coconut shells?

Never thought I would drink Coca Cola from a plastic bag either, but TIT (this is Thailand!!!).

Iron buffalo going home.

Off to work she hoes

My Dragon Fruit plantation as it stands at 10am this morning.I dont know what coloured flesh these ones are as I picked the cuttings up from a pile of discarded ones on the side of the road.These ones have been growing for around a year.

These are three bare posts that I put in this morning and are now waiting for cuttings of the red fleshed variety that I have sourced from another TV member.

The cuttings are at this moment on their way from Chiang Rai and are due in Uttaradit at 3-45pm today.

It's no fun for an old fart like me digging the holes in ground that is as hard as concrete.Two of the posts were 2nd hand and had large amounts of concrete attached which I knocked off as much as I could and one of them had to be moved 30 metres to it's hole.Not easy on your own but I am an indepenndant old B and I get more satisfaction achieving what I have alone.

Ron if You grow Dragon Fruit ive found that putting a big sewer pipe around each of the post improves the fruit quality. , bit late now you've done the posts.

Ron if You grow Dragon Fruit ive found that putting a big sewer pipe around each of the post improves the fruit quality. , bit late now you've done the posts.

That's interesting,haven't heard of that before for dragon fruit.Do you have the sewer pipe above ground and fill it up with soil mix ?