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    There were a few yellow flowers lurking along the fence that I didn't trim back. Now they have gone to seed I think they are Indian Mallow (or Country Mallow or other names.) I only thought about them today when I saw our neighbour out in the wilds digging one up. Apaarently they are much used in some traditional medicine, good for nearly every illness known to man, allegedly.

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    One man went to mow, went to mow a meadow, one man and his supersonic sausage-log, went to mow a meadow

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    Need a hose down after that messy job

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    "I usually cut through a park then get some air down the stairs then ride along the side of the river for a bit."

    Good fun but if that's how you ride do yourself a huge favour and throw away the reflector in the front wheel. Just held on by plastic clips, if they break or wiggle loose good chance they lock up the front wheel. After a mishap years ago my local bike shop removes all the front wheel reflectors.

    When mountain biking in Ft Mac we always argued who went first, no one wanted to. First guy gets all the spider webs that cross the trail.

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    ^ ^ ^ You not concerned about snakes in that grass, loops?

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    ^Funny you should mention snakes Hal as I uncovered a snake this week

    Not in the grass but while moving my rocks in my Black Knight rockery

    The first snake I have encountered in over a year

    He was quite small so I tried to go steve irwin on him and pick him up but he was spitting mad and biting my gardening gloves and since I do not really know much about snakes I decided this was probably on balance a stupid course of action and decided to let him wriggle off into the bushes and freedom

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    Yes, I think that was probably the best course of action, you being in Australia and all that.

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    Today was "Trim the front tree day" and with it comes being bombarded by various praying mantis's.



    This tree grows some very aromatic flowers and with them it attracts a variety of insects and butterflies and the many stealthy Praying Mantis that wait.



    This little guy hopped onto my arm as the branches fell



    This one ran up my jeans and I moved it to a safe place



    Another one crawled up a downspout.

    Those are wingless juveniles.



    I found this big female tucked away laying a big sack of eggs. She will die soon. I need to find a careful way to move the egg sack as its on a lid that will get slammed down and probably destroy it

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    Love those mantises.

    9 years ago on one of the Mrs plots we planted 15 teak trees, not for any kind of return but just because we had the room and wanted to see them grow. When we bought them the were 10 bht each and about 20 cms high with a really huge tap root for their size.

    We wateted them for the first year when necessary but after they have been left to their own devices. They have got impressively big in 9 years and seem to be much bigger than others i've see planted earlier.

    The pic below is to show the diameter referened to a large chang bottle...of course.

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    A dead rat.

    It fell in the pool last night, but couldn’t climb out, so it drowned.

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    OK TD Entomologists. Every year or so I have this attack on one of my favorite trees. 3 years ago it almost died because of the grubs that attacked it but my wife and I spent some time physically boring out the holes as I used a small drill and she sprayed bug killer. The tree recovered. We really like this tree for its HUGE leaves and great shade.



    The tree.





    Today when watering I noticed a few bore holes. I sprayed it with WD 40 (LOL because WD 40 works for everything...seriously) and it drove the grub right out. This is the first time I have seen one alive. They are pretty large and I have to believe the state its in, it will get bigger.

    Anybody have any ideas? I googled various beetles here but did not see its grub state.

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    As a wild guess I'd say a longhorn beetle. I can't tell one grub from another but boring deep into trees is what longhorn beetle larvae do.

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    The weather in Korat has suddenly heated right up and I fear that's the end of the cool season and the hot as hell season will soon be upon us.

    I've also just noticed that our mango trees are absolutely loaded with blossom, so I guess the last thing we need now is a late cold and windy snap to blow all the blossom off. So far it's looking like a good mango year.




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    Yep looks a good year, ours are all loaded, one tree is quite far along fruiting

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    Still nice and cool here west of Udon Thani, needs to stay cool a while longer as potatoes are still a good month away from being ready. Forecast looking good......... Mango trees are loaded up, dont think that is indicative of how much fruit they will end up bearing, last year they were really loaded and worst harvest for years, though the freak storm in Feb didn't help! Believe they need drought for the next couple of months until they start to bear fruit?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Airportwo View Post
    needs to stay cool a while longer as potatoes are still a good month away from being ready.
    you have potatoes

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    Yes, lots - I hope, been growing for the past five years or so.

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    lucky man. You are the first i've heard grow them successfully. Do you manage to store them for any time in the heat and humidity?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Airportwo View Post
    Mango trees are loaded up, don't think that is indicative of how much fruit they will end up bearing, last year they were really loaded and worst harvest for years
    Our trees are all full of blossoms too but I never count on anything. I usually start to trim some off when about golf ball size to improve on the quality. We have 3 different type of Mango trees.

    As for weather, cool nights and mornings but days are quite warm here in Lampang.

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    Quote Originally Posted by malmomike77 View Post
    lucky man. You are the first i've heard grow them successfully. Do you manage to store them for any time in the heat and humidity?
    We have never grown enough to have excess to store, we had to work to get some soil good enough for potatoes. Being a refined chap, I love fresh spuds, so tend to eat them as they come out of the ground, we did plant more this year, mainly in bags, will see how successful they are? looking good so far, as long as the soil stays cool for the next month or so should be ok.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Airportwo View Post
    Still nice and cool here west of Udon Thani, needs to stay cool a while longer as potatoes are still a good month away from being ready. Forecast looking good......... Mango trees are loaded up, dont think that is indicative of how much fruit they will end up bearing, last year they were really loaded and worst harvest for years, though the freak storm in Feb didn't help! Believe they need drought for the next couple of months until they start to bear fruit?
    I think I am not far west of you and here it hit 30C yesterday afternoon. Still cool in the early morning, quite hot in the afternoon sunshine.

    Do you buy special seed potatoes? My efforts with some old supermarket spuds have started promisingly then simply shrivelled.

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    Have you ever wondered whether a Papaya has a tap root or the other kind?

    No, neither have I but I found out by pulling one out of the ground to replant it further away from the house.

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    It was a lot easier than moving a Golden Cane Palm

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shutree View Post
    I think I am not far west of you and here it hit 30C yesterday afternoon. Still cool in the early morning, quite hot in the afternoon sunshine.

    Do you buy special seed potatoes? My efforts with some old supermarket spuds have started promisingly then simply shrivelled.
    No special spuds - just local bought, think it depends on the soil, this year we used bags as well as the ground, the bags have done well.
    Definitely heating up, to be expected I guess, though not really welcomed - by me anyway! Cool nights help, keep all the windows in house closed during the day, house staying around 25c inside, open the windows up at night, least when the neighbors aren't igniting anything that may produce flames! believe they come from a family of well established arsonists!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Looper View Post
    Not in my garden yet but my biology experiment with a Woolworths avocado stone has split open and sprouted a root so maybe it soon will be...

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    Root system is go

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    A small step to the yoghurt tub

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    A giant leap towards full gardenhood

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    Quote Originally Posted by Looper View Post
    tap root or the other kind?
    The other kind would be a fibrous root.

    Avocado is coming along. They sprout easy here buy we usually chuck them away as the tree will get too big for our space. We have tried to be sly and plant avocados and mangos across the road from our house which is shared grass space for everyone in the moo ban, but they always get chopped down along with the grass.
    Lang may yer lum reek...

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    Golden tree snake back again. I guess somewhere in the world they are golden, here in Thailand I only see green ones.

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