Foreverford

Thanks guys I've done a bit of work with a big Kobelco and they actually had a computer inside to count the work hours so that is always the preferable method; and then you can ascertain if he is a competent operator; if  he isn't then have to renegotiate for a by the job bid. Been hearing 1500 an hour so Soundman sounds like you are in the ball park. the best way to find these guys is look for mud on the road and find a job in progress that you can then tail onto so transport is short and then can jump their que before they head to the next Changwat.  Timing timing timing.  FFF

To have ten years of hemp seeds I'd be in heaven. I just blew it by not replanting the Pah Teung (hemp) after working my last into the ground and we got two good rains. Dumb dumb and dumber. A real miss in the gamble of farming, pure and sweet goodness would be awaiting my lovely soil (probably about two and a half meters below historical forested land levels due to older practices causing massive erosion) if I didn't go on the cheap and try to save some of my last 200 pounds of seed for next year. The "Fool on the Hill" as the Beatles once sang is how I feel but get over it  as must be. Am I going to rejuvenate the soil and buil;d back that 2 meters and a half of lush topsoil in my lifetime. Now not that much of a ":Fool" to dream that but the great grand nieces and nephews? or their kids kids? I don't think so;  maybe a half dozen centuries might show some change to the better in replenishing not just rejuvenating.  Sustainable is the bare minimum organic non-chemical the guidelines to the process. No time to go on to one of my epic responses but eill touch base with you guuys thru the draconian mode of more finger banging.  "On the farm.." in the Organic seection is where I'll get into it a bit more specfically with the use of Issan Aussie's composts and worm castings and methods. The Dog has already started creating a new world with his soil on his homestead as he  produces tons more food on his plot as anyone other does for many a mile around. His earth is growing and will always continue to thrive with what he si doing; in a couple of generations pweople willsee amazing rejuvenation and actual elevation changes in the replenishing of the topsoil as the massive tree specimens he has introduced will continue to flourish and shed and keep the entire biological circle flowing and going and growing, the way it always used to do such a  short a time ago.       Foolin' on Fords Forever    As an afterthought to all, I do have an idea how to speed up the process and see sonme significant improvement in replenishing the soil.  I need to fill in one more piece of the puzzle and this is going to be interesting try9ng to find all the players and see if the weather will hold up and if the Ford will get the the new front spindle  and bearing and the massive leakage from the main hydro pump and rear end can be solve and r4epairtred soon. Maybe a little bird will fly uop and magiccally it will all be better. Funny that bird has been at it for nearly a half yeart and nothing is getting better gee eee it actually doesn't look as good. I'm looking for a contact number for a big exacvator in the Buriram Surin Cambodia border area (Prachon Chai/Prasad). This will be for right after Songkran (stop l;aughing somebody will be sober at least three weeks after hopefully). Thanks

Hey where the tol are, what's happening? I can't believe peeps have left you strung out here without any response because you will kill or save the trees you have based on what they is bad boy. Avo's have a fiberous rooting system basically like maybe you woukld think of a lawn where the roots are extremely abundant but very small and shallow in the soil. the mango has a "tap" root which is a single main root almost copying what is growing above ground 15 inches of mango growing above ground it would be good to get at least that much depth in your "ball" of soil you are able to keep attached to the roots system. If you can leave one in the ground where it is and see what it does and transplant the other two where they can at least get partial sunlight and bunches of good rain or water for a while should give you a chance for success. Excessive shwading will definitely force a very tall weak high reaching specimen in either one.
Remember ALL dirt is "nice" dirt, you just have to learn how to understand it. treat it nice and it will be more than nice back to you. By composting you're geeting how to be nice, so right on and left off as some say. Mangoes can be extremely reactive with some people, me included, as the skins on the fruit contain the same type of toxins as North American poison oak and poison ivy. That said it can be a little difficult to correctly identify a mango seeding and an avocado. You could try the old look, touch, taste test with a leaf and compare it to mature specimens in your area but at theses trees early age shown opf your photos it appears that if you go a good shovelfull or more deep and put it in the best prepoared hole you can make and put whatever nice dirt you can muster up and water it in good and slow and deep and cover the earth with some old leaves and cr4eate a temporary shade structure for say 3-7 days I think either an avocado or a mango can make it at the stage yours are in now. forget pots let your dirt be free and it will be one less step to getting the trees on their way. Avo's would do fgood if you wanted to pot up one in reserve that the others don't make it. but with a mango probably a waste of time unless you have a very big container that you cvan use before transplanting the final time. Have fun with your compost as you can n0w see you don't have to have a basket or container to make compost aas a couple of chunks out of the earth and a wet hole is a great start to creating more compost. FFFFords FForever

just had about 20 minutes of typing gobbled up and so i am going to make this short and to the point. You have a great opportunity as you have the roadside avility to selll you stuff and I g  feel it is a necessity for now day farmers to be able to make it financially.  You also have water so the only thing you need to get together is the ability to make good soikls to for your varying needs for cuttings and seeds and then transplanting into larger bags. For example it will cost next to nothing to fgo fiond beautiful abandoned bouganvillas everywhere around and you can go andf take cuttings and put themin good draining (sdandy) soil and keep them moist for a WHILE AND BINGO THEY WILL ROOT AND SOMEONE WILL BUY THEM AND THEY WILL BECOME THEIR NEW SECURITY FENCE OR A BEAUTIFUL hanging WINDOW BOX. I planted a few hundred papaya seeds and then transplanted them into bags and eventually told the family it was time to put these hundreds of trees into the ground and they griped and complained that where how and why and what and they don't grow and died and and and but it appears that we have hendreds of papaya trees growing around the house and some have dozens of fruit hanging and ahave had some that in the past produced welll over 50. Many iof the seeds were from purchased fruit and saved and others were local store bought seeds. Total cost couldn't have been over a few hundred bsaht bags included. Again your secret will be in making soil for all the different cuttings and seeeds that you will plant. Your products will be based on what people in your area want to buy and visiting others in the same business will help you understand this. start small and hopefully you will be able to expand in a logical and profitable way. remember everything you don't sell doesn't get thrown away it can either be planted at your place and consumed (food) later or you can put it in a bigger bag and create a larger and more valuable specimen. Issan Aussie has a good source of worm castings and composts that are essentials to starting to crate good soils and comoposts and uyou would love to be able to find a source of good clean sand whereever you are located. Most of this stuff isn't about growing different plants and seeds it is about creating the correct soils ffor the plants and seeds so they can thrive in their early stages so you have good specimens.
a lot of the pumpkins we transplanted this year duidn't do good because the chicken "compost" was no good my f-i-l said. I told him he was nmistaken as the chicken compost wasn't compost at all it was kee (that is pure chicken manure and some rice husks). I told him to transpalnat them in issan Aussie real "compost" mixed with the natural soil and amazingly those are doing just fine oh well maybe they'll get it some time as e all know "a little is very good so a lot alot  has to be so much better"  Chioke Dee  PS there are a few pinned subjuects in the beginning of this forum that will help you with all this such as composts and trees etc lots of good informative reading you can use to make it start happening. Farming Fords forever

Just put in another crop of sun hemp but the big news was that the family was finally able to get free seeds from Buriram. Other provinces have been doing this for years but B stands for backwards and Buririam. Of course you couldn't go the 100 kilometers roundtrip they required you got a minimum of 7 people or they wouldn't give the seeds also had some crap about having to have land papers but that was forgotten or jive or whatever. Of course they wouldn't make it available until long after the optimum tiome to plant but what else is new. we are stockpiled for next year and hopefully will be able to get m0re. the soil has greatly imoroved with one year getting three crops in and also heard it is great for people klooking for pollinators for trees etc and have really notice plenty of flying bombadiers buzzing about doing their thing when 100's of thousaqnd of rai lie fallow all around. Fixing N in a Ford Forever