Pepper plantation in Kep
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At least if the pepper don't take off you could turn the pond into Kep olympic stadium?
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Awesome job! Great post. Thanks for sharing...
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Euroboy, I am surprised you guys dug so deep, yet still use the soil for growing. Normally only a layer of topsoil is suitable, but perhaps because this is the tropics, that layer is much thicker?
And if so, the soil would be permeable and therefore not very well water holding.
How is it in that respect?
And if so, the soil would be permeable and therefore not very well water holding.
How is it in that respect?
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One more aerial shot from another angle. Right now I'm busy at work but I will try to answer the questions in this thread later today.
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Pepper tasting/wine tasting with Khmer cuisine while watching the sun set over the SeaLexusSchmexus wrote:Nice pictures, thanks for sharing. I see those stairs quite often in the countryside, but they're obviously not common in the city. What are your plans for the rooftop?
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Very common stair style in Cham communities, I've found.LexusSchmexus wrote:Nice pictures, thanks for sharing. I see those stairs quite often in the countryside, but they're obviously not common in the city. What are your plans for the rooftop?
I have a bit of a horticultural thumb.
Do you think we can get the lads to remove the grass between the rows of pepper plants?
You are feeding weeds (grass) with precious water and that grass is competing with your peppers.
Just a thought
Do you think we can get the lads to remove the grass between the rows of pepper plants?
You are feeding weeds (grass) with precious water and that grass is competing with your peppers.
Just a thought
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Excellent observation. The places I had in mind are actually all Cham majority villages. Hadn't crossed my mind to out the two together though.epidemiks wrote:Very common stair style in Cham communities, I've found.LexusSchmexus wrote:Nice pictures, thanks for sharing. I see those stairs quite often in the countryside, but they're obviously not common in the city. What are your plans for the rooftop?
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Thanks. In my home country we sell the pepper through a webshop. And more and more small shops (typical organic hipster shops) wants to sell our pepper. The last three years we made some profit, but we have learned that it is hard to introduce a new product like this which is unknown for almost everyone. But those who buy it, come back for more.Phuket2006 wrote:Very nice,congrats . how are u doing selling the pepper?
Since this is the second year with harvest from our own plantation, we have yet to earn money from sales in Cambodia. However, we have been contacted by distributors in Thailand, Japan and the US.
Yes. And definitely money-consuming.Zillah wrote:Kudos! I've heard that pepper is a challenging, time-consuming crop to get started
That was something we considered before we realised the amount of leakage from the pond. The pond needs steady supply of rain, it was totalle dry last year. After we drill another well we will consider to fill up the pond and plant more pepper.spitthedog wrote:Cool. That pond looks massive. Are you gonna fill it with tilapia?
Jackal wrote:It wasn't you (OP) telling me of the Malaysian pit viper attacking the mini excavator on the pepper farm lately, was it?
Nope. I think I would remember, I hate snakes.
Yes, pretty much so. It doesn't hold the water well, we should have used some kind of cover to prevent leakage. The water is not clear, you get the impression from the last aerial shot I posted.ricecakes wrote:Did you just dig the hole and hope that there was no major seapage ? Other than evaporation in the hot season, does it generally hold the water pretty well ? Were there any specific engineering considerations you had to take to ensure this or does it just come down to having a reasonable clay content etc ? Also, how clear is the water in general ?
Our partner in PP has been our site manager during the development of the plantation, and he has done an excellent job. The MO for the whole project is that we and him would agree what project to do next and what it would cost. Then he would execute it, without discussing much detail with us. This, however, is not the case with the building. We decided the location, the building-style, the choice of materials, furnitures and so on. Our Scandinavian taste is a little bit different from what our Cambodian friends like. We don't want a 500 kg desk and 300 kg chairs in the shop.
Yup, you are right. The first field of pepper was planted one a part of the land that wasn't filled up. Mr. Lay, the president of KPPA, had to approve our land for producing Kampot Pepper. He was determined that we couldn't use the part of the land that was filled up for pepper production until after minimum 2 years. During that time the new layer of soil would 'settle'. By the way, what I have read from your posts on this topic before, you know a lot more about farming in Cambodia than I do.Don-Pierre de Plume wrote:Euroboy, I am surprised you guys dug so deep, yet still use the soil for growing. Normally only a layer of topsoil is suitable, but perhaps because this is the tropics, that layer is much thicker?
And if so, the soil would be permeable and therefore not very well water holding.
How is it in that respect?
Yes, we got to that eventually. During our first years we had only one man working at the plantation. We had to hire workers from outside for various tasks, including removing the weeds. Expencive. Today we got two families working on the plantation, they have now learned to do everything relating to the pepperfields and we don't have to hire workers from outside anymore.bigphatt wrote:I have a bit of a horticultural thumb.
Do you think we can get the lads to remove the grass between the rows of pepper plants?
You are feeding weeds (grass) with precious water and that grass is competing with your peppers.
Just a thought
No chemicals are allowed when producing Kampot Pepper. It's purely organic.prettyvacant wrote:So do you need a lot of pesticides for this?
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Regardless, I wanted to login and give you big kudos for this project. It is very impressive!
Regardless, I wanted to login and give you big kudos for this project. It is very impressive!
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