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Gross! But it is supposed to smell bad, then it's working properly.

I keep it on our kitchen bench. Not in the sun.

Pine needles can be a good amendment to help acidify soil and mulch, but you'll need to test your soil pH to know the right amount.

@@suansook Good idea, thanks for the advice, currently getting a soil sample taken.

I don't have experience using wood chips to mulch bamboo. Typically we are using the bamboo leaves that drop during our hot dry seasons here. Because there's no rain until the beginning of the growing season, these fallen leaves do not become compacted and we've not had any problems with new culms breaking through. This may be different with a heavy mulching of wood chips. Sorry that I can't be more helpful in answering your question.

@@suansook Thanks a lot for the answer mate. Really enjoy your channel!

Thanks for your questions and your encouragement! It's good to know that my videos are being enjoyed :)

You can find many small garden places throughout Thailand, not only in the larger cities, but also in the towns. No problems, I just help my wife in the garden and around our home.

I've added some info and photos on my Community TH-cam tab about this tool (because I can't share photos here.) Here's the link: th-cam.com/channels/4LQ00CQrZyFqC5IJUbAWgg.htmlcommunity?lb=UgkxFS5czHjJF_S5C82gYtVQ3xJLZqU2FOVk

Glad you enjoyed it

Thanks for asking. No, were are OK at our place because we are up on a ridge. The garden is growing like crazy because of all the rain and it's challenging to keep up with all the work! Loving it though :)

I mean the variety name

Dendrocalamus sericeus - ไผ่ซางหม่น (Phai sang mon)

Good results. The first night there were about 8 snails in the two containers I put out. After that I have had none and no apparent damage to the plants (beans and passion fruit) that were nearby.

Thanks for the sharing your local knowledge. I did not know that it is OK to eat/drink the raw leaves.

Thanks, great to know you're enjoying our videos. I've been thinking we might do well to make change the name to something that will show up better in search results. Sadly the pigeon died a while ago. I think it may have been hit by a car or motorcycle. I found it near the road. Thanks for asking.

​That's sad about your pigeon mate. I enjoyed popping up here and there. I am just out of San Kamphaeng in village surrounded by Rice Field and Longan. @@suansook

Yeah, we really miss her. She was a great companion! Sounds nice ... similar to us :) How long have you been there?

Yes they do a bit

It is Dendrocalamus sericeus - ไผ่ซางหม่น (Phai sang mon)

I think you might be right!

Yes, I love it that plants are so cheap here! There's no excuse to plant more of them :)

I often think that it's our garden that is bringing us to life! :)

Hi Tim. There are fish farms all around Thailand, but I do not know of any that are in our area.

I don't want to use chemicals to help kill it, I don't have machinery to take it out, but I have time. :)

There's nothing quite like it!

Thanks!

Knock up an open sided green house with bamboo, you got plenty of it 🤙

It is Dendrocalamus sericeus - ไผ่ซางหม่น (Phai sang mon)

@@suansook thanks!

Great. Please let me know how you get on!

@@suansook Took me a while haha. When I boil them for 15 minutes on medium heat I end up with a tea brown color, not nearly as clear as yours! The taste is faintly sweet but the lemongrassy fragrance seems to be gone. Did you have this happen before?

@@quint9 Great that you tried this! Sorry, we don't know what could have gone wrong. I asked my wife and she also has no experience of this happening. Was you lemongrass fresh?

@@suansook Hi Kevin, I tried this again. It's indeed very likely due to the freshness. All of the shoots sold at the grocery store have browned on the inside. Removing that part gets rid of the color! Bit unfortunate, so I've decided to plant my own :) Some of them are already showing new growth. It's getting colder however. Can you tell me what temperature the plant thrives in? Might be best if I take them inside at some point, but I'll have them enjoy the sun for as long as possible!

@@quint9 Great that you are trying again! Thanks for letting me know :) It is how and warm here most of the year. I have read that you can grow lemongrass in cooler climates, but that it is best if you can plant it in a pot and move the pot indoors and place it where it will get some sun, during the cooler months.

Thanks. You should try it! I'll make a video about how to make it soon. Maybe it'll be a Short video because there's not much to it. Did you watch this video about the herbs we are planting? th-cam.com/video/fpmRFl0SHa0/w-d-xo.html I'll be making more videos about the herbs as they grow and we begin to make use of more of them.

@@suansook That would be awesome! Suppose I'll have to get some lemongrass then :) And thanks for the link to your other video, I indeed missed it. Great info, and lots of new herbs to try and find haha

@quint9 Here's the video about making the lemongrass drink th-cam.com/users/shortsnZOwmLcAcYk?feature=share

Some worked well, others showed no signs of activity from termites. I did make a follow up video, here's the link: th-cam.com/video/Vq-8P8z0Pm4/w-d-xo.html

I’ll try to trim it down Step one: fill 1 gallon jugs half full of green onion tops and add a few dried whole hot peppers, fill with water. Step two let set in the sun 72 hours and pour off liquid into a fresh jug and refill. After that pour off every 24 hours into fresh jugs. You should get at least a half gallon of onion water. Step 3: add 4 Oz of JADAM fish fermented fertilizer to each jug of onion water and fill the jug up the rest of the way with well water. Step 4: set in partial or direct sunlight. Mine turned red or green within 10-12 days. Step 5: you can culture 4 new jugs from each gallon of PSB using 1/2 gallon onion water and 4oz jadam fish fertilizer per gallon.

My JADAM fish fertilizer is made using 3 gallons by volume of whole fresh water fish, a half gallon of leaf litter and water from the lake the fish were caught from in a 6 gallon bucket with a lid with a bubbler. I catch the fish in September and they ferment over the winter. I remove the liquid from the bucket in spring and refill the bucket with water and fresh leaf litter. I strain the liquid and put it in a separate bucket and add 6 Oz of LAB to clean it up.

If you try JADAM fish fertilizer my advice is to pull the liquid every two months and strain it with a 5 gallon bucket paint strainer. I generally get 3-4 gallons per pull. And use the same grist over and over and add it to the next batch. Once strained add 6-8 Oz of cheese whey or LAB per 4 gallons and let it work 2 weeks before applying at a rate of 1-2 Oz per gallon of water.

Let the initial fermentation go for 6-7 months, then pull the liquid every two months with JADAM fish ferments. You can use the same grist over and over again as needed but it gets better if you let it work. Don’t put labs in the fermentation bucket with the grist. Just add it to what you pull for use.

Sorry for all the blah blah. I watched one of your PSB videos last winter and that’s how I knew what had happened with my ferments. Cheers and thank you.

Thank you. We will continue to improve every time we fire up the oven!

Thank you

We use water that comes from a reservoir in the nearby hills. I've also experimented with some other water sources. You can see that in this video series: th-cam.com/video/bkx0Kj8JQxg/w-d-xo.html

@@suansook I want to get some water from the park next to my house but I'm scared of the cops lol

@@npm1421 I would hope the cops have real work to do rather than come after someone who is collecting a little water from a pond. You could collect rain water if you don't want to use mains water.

Thanks ​@@suansook

Hemp also has a similar capacity to sequester carbon and is also a great resource with many applications.

Thank you!

As far as I understand (I have no practice of using bamboo as animal feed) it is very uncommon to use bamboo as a feed source, mainly because of the high silica content in bamboo.

My cows like to eat bamboo leaves. I had read an Indian study where they found certain species like bambusa vulgaris to have higher starch content and hence suited as fodder. My hens also nibble at the leaves but only a little bit.

Thanks for sharing this!

Having walking trails through our bamboo is part of our bigger picture plan, and this is part of our 11th reason to grow more bamboo. We get snakes here (saw one this morning) but not what I'd think of as giant snakes. The biggest we've had was a banded krait which was about 2.5-3m long and as think as my forearm. No tigers. There are wild monkeys but most in the southern provinces. In some national parks there are still wild elephants, but most are now domesticated.

It was our pet. We raised it because it was separated from it's parents. Sadly our lovely pigeon died recently :(

The taste of our Uncle Leo's tomatoes is superb! I do love them raw, but also cook with them. I think THC is similarly altered by heat to release the best effect :)

Thanks so much for this info! Do you have some suggestion as to the type of dry medium I could use?

Probably MSG. Monosodium glutamate

@@suansook tks

It really is our own little slice of paradise. I highly recommend this type of lifestyle

@@suansook Sounds great! I want to move to Northern Thailand but my partner is worried about the air polution...

Yes, that is a problem for part of the year. Where we live it's not so bad because we're close to the mountains and often get a nice wind to clear the air

@@suansook Will have to head for the hills!

facebook.com/Berriesthai?mibextid=ZbWKwL She bought them here. She's told me this supplier may not have blackberries in stock again until September. I guess you can inquire.

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Sorry, no. We do have problems with termites here, but they only seem interested in eating the dead bamboo.

@@suansook Thanks very much for your reply. Loving your vids!

Thanks

Here's a video about how we use PSB th-cam.com/video/h_vHBuGln14/w-d-xo.html

Thanks for your encouragement. Much appreciated!

Thanks! 😊