Your Farm?

[David Hober]

Hello Michael,

A long time ago I think you mentioned an olive farm are you still a farmer?

I ask as I have step by step been spending more time on my farm and I really enjoy it.

Mostly I grow tropical fruits but vegetables also.

The weather is hot here so I lean towards cotton clothes and almost never a jacket...

David Hober

[alden]

HI David

Great to hear from you and to know all is well on the farm!

Ditch the cotton and wear linen.

I am looking forward to the olive harvest this Fall like I do every year. The last two years production was very bad because of weather related issues, and I am hoping for a good year's crop in 2020.

I planted about 150 fruit trees on my farm and I get real pleasure from tending to them. And every Summer I do have a vegetable garden as well, and love it. What tropical fruits do you grow?

Cheers

Michael

[David Hober]

I only have one linen shirt and it is a heavy one so not perfect for the tropics. But I agree that I should have more linen clothes. Maybe I will make some shirts for myself using Belgian linen as I have rolls of it on hand for pocket squares and other projects.
We grow some cotton but it is not the same as luxury shirt cotton.

We had a bad year last year but this year we should have a bumper crop of fruit as long as we don't have unplanned storms.

We have many tropical fruits:

Mangos, papaya, coconuts, lychee, rambutan, longan, dates, custard apple, mulberry, figs, tamarind, durian, lemons, limes & avocadoes and lots of bananas.

Also coffee, sacha inchi and herbs such as ginger and turmeric etc.

We have vegetables, but broccoli and cauliflower only grow once a year in the winter - what they call winter here - never any snow. actually our summer is our low season for vegetables a bit too hot.

I like olives very much but don't have any growing - I wonder if they would do ok here...

We grow organically which is extra work but fun.

[alden]

Loose fitting linen trousers, bermudas, hankies and shirts are obligatory for warm weather climates.....linen sheets too.

I would love to grow some of those tropical fruits. But we have mulberry, figs, and lemons in common. I have a few varieties of each.

Persimmons are not on your list of fruits? I have both astringent and non-astringent varieties in my collection. The Japanese are the Persimmon masters so you must be able to grow them in Thailand. Try and find the "chocolate persimmon." and plant a few of them. You won't find a more delicious tasting fruit.

My vegetable garden is dedicated to making great salads. Nothing better on a hot Summer's day. I grow broccoli as well and all kinds of squash. Beautiful stuff. I'm not sure what the soil is like where you are but mine is volcanic and gives everything grown in it wonderful dimension in taste. Hard to eat Market or Supermarket fruits and vegetable after these!

Cheers

[David Hober]

Our soil is not that good - lots of clay and lime in our water -

Our figs are wild ones so maybe not as good as yours.

Persimmons are not something that I have thought of but I will look for some small plants or seeds.

Limes are easy to grow here and lemons too but in Thailand lemons are not popular..

We can grow Broccoli but mainly in the winter with warm weather they tend to bolt.

I have been watching videos recently on No Dig gardening very interesting...

I am going to think about making some linen shirts.

[andreyb]

Take it easier, guys! -- it's hard to read discussions like this one for city folks like me.

Especially now, being locked in my apartment due to the mandatory isolation and have to rely only on what the closest supermarket has to offer...

Andrey

[David Hober]

I understand...

Yesterday we had rain for the first time in a long time - the farm is happy.

[rodes]

David,

I can only hope that your produce is as excellent as you ties.

[David Hober]

Thank you for your kind words.

The plants and trees that are comfortable with our tropical weather grow very well but not everything.

Bananas grow all year round really well but avocados struggle here...