by drifter » Sat May 06, 2017 12:38 pm
Kampot Homesteader wrote:such nice soil for pepper. it's great seeing that deep of an excavation and still having that laterite red dirt.
are the people at KPPA still saying that all watering must be done from ponds? i have heard this from them before...
similar logic to only growing on wooden posts vs. brick towers. that was the way it was grown prior to modern pumps.... collected rain water.
they where saying a few years back that it was o.k. to pump up the water, but that it had to "rest" in open ponds before the approved it for watering.
is that still the case? both with wood vs brick and pumped water vs rain water?
and also.... a really nice farm.
good job.
Well water is ok, in so far as I know.
The problem the KPPA had was some farms trucking Secret Lake water during dry season last year. The act itself (although a bit uncivilised) isn't the end of the world. The quality of the water is the issue.
The lake water is full of contaminants (run off from other, non-pepper farms etc...).
One of the bigger farms is selling pepper that shouldn't have the organic label attached to it as a result.
[quote="Kampot Homesteader"]such nice soil for pepper. it's great seeing that deep of an excavation and still having that laterite red dirt.
are the people at KPPA still saying that all watering must be done from ponds? i have heard this from them before...
similar logic to only growing on wooden posts vs. brick towers. that was the way it was grown prior to modern pumps.... collected rain water.
they where saying a few years back that it was o.k. to pump up the water, but that it had to "rest" in open ponds before the approved it for watering.
is that still the case? both with wood vs brick and pumped water vs rain water?
and also.... a really nice farm.
good job.[/quote]
Well water is ok, in so far as I know.
The problem the KPPA had was some farms trucking Secret Lake water during dry season last year. The act itself (although a bit uncivilised) isn't the end of the world. The quality of the water is the issue.
The lake water is full of contaminants (run off from other, non-pepper farms etc...).
One of the bigger farms is selling pepper that shouldn't have the organic label attached to it as a result.