5 hours ago, petitewife said:

Here we go again a few more of Loie, prep work for planting, irrigation and finally running in drip lines after planting, all in all a good trip and a lot accomplished.

 

First lot are mainline going in, 8.5 PVC 100mm x 850 meters, hard work but once it's in it is done finished, stand pipes every 150 meters for our drip system.

Well done,looking good did you end up using a laser level scraper on your plots.

Could you also tell us about your pump type and size and water supply.

Regards

12 hours ago, farmerjo said:

Well done,looking good did you end up using a laser level scraper on your plots.

Could you also tell us about your pump type and size and water supply.

Regards

Hi ya Farmerjo,

 

Thanks for your reply.

 

Good memory about the laser levelling, in the end we did laser level the plot and it went well, only issue was we had to do it in 2 tiers as the fall was too great but hey first attempt so I'm happy how it worked out.

 

I will try to find some pump images and such at work right now so limited to what I have with me.

 

The main filter and pump assembly is trailer mounted along with 2 lift off secondary units which are placed in the field near the mainline standpipes and then hooked into sub mains which feed the drip tape. 

 

The pump is a single cylinder HINOTA diesel which pumps 600 lpm @ 24 mh, it covers our drip tape requirements with ease and is very cost effective to run, cheap.

 

Other than that we draw from our dam which is bore fed from a 6" bore we have plenty of water, first thing we did was bore and dams on most our our blocks, and still developing.

 

Anyhow as you can see I get very passionate about our farms and can waffle on for hours...8)

 

In recent years, locals have been taking out Mango's and planting Banana's in their place.

This farmer has gone the other way and taken Banana's out and planted Mango's yesterday.

In my way of thinking, this is a wise move as every second farmer has a Banana patch which 

makes it harder to sell at a good price. One recent local Banana plantation is around 40 rai !!!

Hello All, on my walks around the village, was really impressed with

this dragon plant, until I found out everybody only has whites, no reds.

One of the early planters.

More red dragon flowers.

rice555

Not all of the pic's uploaded, hers the others

Have been picking these for the past three weeks from a stand on our home block.

 

Atlas moth in the gaton tree. About 10 pair mating.

 

 

On June 16, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Ron19 said:

Have been picking these for the past three weeks from a stand on our home block.

 

Most all the flowers blew off in the heavy rain/winds or rotted from the rain.

This is my first this year SoiDogll Red.

The same plant with ALL new flowers tonight. Rain the last 2 days.

Still nothing showing on the YELLOW's

This was the plant above 3 hours before.

My first fruit this year, the cut one was one of these.

The white dragon I see when out walking.

The wife's bag trees.

rice555 

Most all the flowers blew off in the heavy rain/winds or rotted from the rain.
This is my first this year SoiDogll Red.
The same plant with ALL new flowers tonight. Rain the last 2 days.
Still nothing showing on the YELLOW's

I notice the red coloured one is different to mine. Mine is more of a purple than red. The locals call it dang dang.
Yours are looking good. Mine on our other property are not looking very good but will still get quite a few off the white ones as well as the purple.

Cheers

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Purple fleshed picked this morning.

 

The surrounding villages had a EM and shit party, and some of wife's gardens endeavors.

rice555  

 the

rice555

They worked on piles for over a week, storms slowed, they baged and were

hauling away bages for several days.

Passion fruit flower and someone else was checking out my dragon fruit

plants, got stuck going out, was released in the morning.

rice555

On 8/10/2017 at 3:34 AM, rice555 said:

The surrounding villages had a EM and shit party, and some of wife's gardens endeavors.

rice555  

 the

rice555

We had a shit party too, I estimate they got in excess of 500 bags.

Don't know what happens to it from here on.

 

They bagged the stuff and split it amongst the

villages, each village had their own distribution

plan, are's re-bagged and sold for Bt.40.(delivered).

The original start up funds was Bt. 2mil.

rice555

 

On 5/28/2017 at 7:57 PM, Ron19 said:

In recent years, locals have been taking out Mango's and planting Banana's in their place.

This farmer has gone the other way and taken Banana's out and planted Mango's yesterday.

In my way of thinking, this is a wise move as every second farmer has a Banana patch which 

makes it harder to sell at a good price. One recent local Banana plantation is around 40 rai !!!

One could say that of mangoes as well - everyone and every farmer has a few or numerous mangoes on their property, unless the idea behind this is nursery stock.

Getting a second flush on the white fleshed fruit.

I have already taken 3 fruit off this branch and now it's got 8 on the way.

Wonder how many of these will come to something.

8 hours ago, Ron19 said:

Getting a second flush on the white fleshed fruit.

I have already taken 3 fruit off this branch and now it's got 8 on the way.

Wonder how many of these will come to something.

I've had a lot that size, then rain, then heat and they turn orange and die.

Sunday and sunday night.

rice555

Some of my passion fruit. Need some spraying.

rice555

I've had a lot that size, then rain, then heat and they turn orange and die.
Sunday and sunday night.
rice555

No luck with yellow fruit yet ?

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Not much on the yellow front, it's growing so slow, not like the reds.

It does need weeding,

The wife's fig been doing it's thing, she ate a 1/2 dozen last week.

I forget the name of this tree.

More Isan table fair,just needs cooking.

rice555

Small patch of Shallots

 

7 hours ago, Ron19 said:

Small patch of Shallots

 

Done well to get shallots to grow  this time of year ,allways   thought thay where a  cool season  crop , a bit like  garlic .

Has been a bit on the cooler side here recently. Warm but not too much.

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Meyer Lemon. Center 13 pots. Thank you Bob Evans. Seeds from our drinks in the USA.

 

 

Tomatoes. Black tomato on the extreme right.

 

 

Carolin Jumbo Watermelons. Grow to over 200 pounds.

 

 

Compost pile with SWMBO secret sauce.

 

 

One of the cows want to donate but it missed the pile.

 

New additions to our small farm, Hereford x bull calf and Angus x heifer

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Oh man so excited After being in bangsaphan with 50 rai of rubber trees for 7 years ,where no bastard speaks english. We have just bought 10 rai near Sukhothai. Check out the view. Had to share this. Am hoping to meet some of the farang and give them an ear bashing. Got plans to build house here and move up here after selling rubber trees in bangsaphan.

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