Farang Farm Feet.

I would like to add, I don't think Shaggy got his feet dirty, like me, this time. But I trust he surely got his hands dirty..

You two need to get a room,

Kindest regards.

You two need to get a room,

Kindest regards.

You need to comment more. You are always straight forward. Very entertaining, teletiger.

Just for you DAL who thinks I never get down and dirty at the Farm.

After the rain storm the other night, Farm Father was emptying a pond and moving the fish.

He invited me along.

in that mud ... shoes as we know them, were not an option.

If you understand Racing Parlance, the track went from Heavy to Fast within 8 hours ... suck is the sun's heat and the composition of the soil.

But I digress ...

As this was the real action on the morning.

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A beautiful mix of tea and corn.

Just for you DAL who thinks I never get down and dirty at the Farm. After the rain storm the other night, Farm Father was emptying a pond and moving the fish. He invited me along, in that mud ... shoes as we know them, were not an option.

If you understand Racing Parlance, the track went from Heavy to Fast within 8 hours ... suck is the sun's heat and the composition of the soil.

But I digress ...

Thanks David48. Trust me, you dont digress and I always like your thorough reports.

This is all part of farm life, I see you are chipping in yourself. With respect to MFG of course, who knows how to run a farm.

The infamous mud shoes:

Make them fit your size, first;

Let them dry and apply more soil to your liking

If the shoe fits!........

Great shots from VF as usual....

Rice growing in Songklha, seeded by hand...

As for blisters on the feet it's because of too much sitting around watching others work DAL !

I hope this works.

I raised these years ago and have finally got started again

Hi there folks,hope you are all well.

Got back early this morning and am still a bit jet lagged and missing my loved ones.

Great to see so many new posts and a big thank you to you all

Unfortunately my likes are wiped out for today,but I will rectify that ASAP.

I did manage to get a few shots in between changing nappies..... so here is a few for now

Hope you enjoy them

Kind regards

Shaggy

Nice photos Shaggy, you and VillageFarang raise the bar quite considerably! I am going to try and attach a photo of my rather humble 13 sq yard 'garden' here in sunny SE England, basically I hobby grow stuff, as I've always done allotment gardening since I was a kid back in the [censored as too long ago] , this year I tried my hand at sweetcorn (total 18 plants, so small beer compared to you guys) and peas (good for fixing N into the soil), really a small contribution to the thread.

A shot of Derwent Water in the Lake District, Cumbria,

Edit: Okay that didn't work, is there an idiots guide to uploading photos etc to the forum somewhere?

^^ Mate, your photos loaded correctly ... but you have a different system from that of villagefarang and Shaggy1969.

They (typically) store there photos with a storage provider (maybe you have heard of cloud computing?) and their photos are automatically large.

I don't do that and I upload my photos from my computer ... just like you did and when they are clicked from the 'thumbnail' size they are also large.

You did the right thing ... no need to worry.

Welcome to the Farming Forum ...

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Edit: Okay that didn't work, is there an idiots guide to uploading photos etc to the forum somewhere?

Yep, in this pinned topic in the Photography forum

Cheers lads, I'll check out the thread and see about trying to load from the cloud, as I usually store stuff in Picsa - just in case the laptop or mobile go walkabout...weird how it doesn't full size photos uploaded from your PC but does from the net, wonder why that is...ah well not a web site programmer so my xml and html skills aren't all that so probably any explanation will be over my head

Hello Bodrules

Thanks for sharing your photos and may I second Davids warm welcome to the farming forum

Thank you also for you compliment regarding my photos....but for me it is purely beginners luck ....unlike VF and many of the other posters on this thread.

BTW, Another cracking sunset photo David48

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My apologies for not labeling my photos today

1st photo..... A family (four generations ranging from 13 - 85 years) from our town working that were kind enough to stop to chat with us for a while and allow me to take some photos. (more to come)

2nd photo....was taken at a place called Taa Lai Lot on the border between Kalasin and Udon and forms part of the Lam Pao Dam (tâa....harbour, lăi....flows, lòt.....tube)

3rd photo.... was taken at a friends farm near the families land

4th photo.... was taken at one of the dairy/breeding farms we went to visit at a town called Ban Khok Lam.

No worries shaggy thanks to you all for the welcome, with regard to the rice planting work that looks like an absolute killer after a couple of hours! Remember my mum going on about picking spuds on the farms up in Scotland to earn a few £ more, she said the first week of it your back feels like it has been dipped in molten iron

The second week ain't much better

Anyway, here's a couple of shots across Morecambe Bay, from the Ulverston side (birthplace of Stan Laurel, worlds shortest canal and Glaxo's factory in the 30's);

Shot up toward the River Leven, looking at the railway viaduct

Two swans err swanning about in the outflow of a tidal Beck (local dialect word for stream)

Tractor doing the initial cultivation on the corn patch for the next crop.

Hi all, I'm back...been away harvesting my fishes and doing final pond clearing.

Here are all the photos, don't know which one to upload so i uploaded them all.

Harvest days - Wholesalers and suppliers.

Pond clearing day.

They cleared out 4 big ponds in just 7 hours and had a hearty feast.

Wait...wait...more waiting...

Divide and conquer... I control the engine, he take charge of the base valve clearing debris. Another man create the paths for waterways, the rest will catch the fishes.

One pond's done, 3 more to go... 2 photos of the UIL using electrode after the team move on to another pond, what he gets he can keep. Most welcome... no hidden fishes to worry and no need to use poison.

Feast

Hang over this morning - All of us.

Have now put a cladding of hessian bags around each post of my dragon fruit setup.This is done beause the cactus plants are " Epiphytic " and their adventitious roots which can be seen in the photo's are used as support and to collect water and nutrients from their surroundings,enabling the plant to survive if the base is severed.This feature also allows the plants to be successfully grown from cuttings.

RBH ... I really enjoyed your photo-set on catching your fishes.

The Farm Father did likewise just recently, but his was to transfer the juvenile Plan Nin to the larger grow out pond.

Ron ... always love watching a tractor do it's stuff.

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Young rubber trees

^^ Excellent photo ... like the Tractor Sun-set and the Boss Dog photo ... this one 'speaks' to me ...

OH ... DAL's on a wee holiday and will be back soon.

Cha-om growing down one side of the corn patch.

^^ Excellent photo ... like the Tractor Sun-set and the Boss Dog photo ... this one 'speaks' to me ...

OH ... DAL's on a wee holiday and will be back soon.

DAL's always on a wee holiday!

Great pics above guys... especially like Ron's method with the Dragon Fruit, I spied one near my house today, so may see if I can get a cutting or two and try growing!

Shaggy's pic really jumps out ... great shot!

^^ Excellent photo ... like the Tractor Sun-set and the Boss Dog photo ... this one 'speaks' to me ...

OH ... DAL's on a wee holiday and will be back soon.

DAL's always on a wee holiday!

Great pics above guys... especially like Ron's method with the Dragon Fruit, I spied one near my house today, so may see if I can get a cutting or two and try growing!

Shaggy's pic really jumps out ... great shot!

See ...... here he is!

Rice fields can be so beautiful and peaceful in the right light.

DAL's always on a wee holiday!

Great pics above guys... especially like Ron's method with the Dragon Fruit, I spied one near my house today, so may see if I can get a cutting or two and try growing!

Shaggy's pic really jumps out ... great shot!

See ...... here he is!

Jimmy asking for it..... But don't forget, Shaggy asked us to remain civil.

Your Thaivisa Samui reporter: doing what he does best!

Hope he will spending more time at new farms to show us his wonderfull views.

Thanks.

Cha-om growing down one side of the corn patch.

Your baby cha om trees look very similar to tamarind trees..

^^ Excellent photo ... like the Tractor Sun-set and the Boss Dog photo ... this one 'speaks' to me ...

OH ... DAL's on a wee holiday and will be back soon.

DAL's always on a wee holiday!

Great pics above guys... especially like Ron's method with the Dragon Fruit, I spied one near my house today, so may see if I can get a cutting or two and try growing!

Shaggy's pic really jumps out ... great shot!

Thank you David and Jim....I really like that photo as well simple but eye catching.

Top marks to Ron also for his Dragon fruit set up....nice bracket mate

I noticed a few pages back that David and DAL were showing their muddy feet.

Did I get my feet dirty? Nope,because I've got some paddy socks.A bargain at 20 baht a set

Me in my paddy socks and cheap neoprene shoes (40 baht a pair )....ideal for planting rice and learning how to plow with Iron Buffalo (photos to come)