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Soi Dog wrote:Way too much work for me, far too much risk and too much start-up capital needed...but cultivating prawns would be interesting. I understand it's quite difficult.

Growing bamboo, however, sounds more like my style.
You seem like a fun-gi, grow mushrooms!
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Cashews would be interesting as well...
PPP wrote:Cashew nut export numbers aren’t adding up: producers
Thu, 31 July 2014
Chan Muyhong
Cambodian cashew nut exports are on the rise, yet export figures are still well below production numbers, with thousands of tonnes unaccounted for.

Unshelled cashew nut exports totalled close to $2.5 million in the first six months of the year, with 2,800 tonnes exported, a rise of 200 per cent over the same period last year, a report from the Ministry of Commerce shows.

But despite the increases, officials and industry leaders told the Post that Cambodia produces close to six times the recorded export figures.

In Kampong Thom, the largest cashew-growing province in the country with more than 23,680 hectares under cultivation, Siv Ngy, president of Kampong Thom Cashew Nut Association, told the Post yesterday that he was sceptical of the official export figures, as average cashew nut production stands at about 70,000 tonnes per year.

“Traders buy at least 200 tonnes of raw cashew nuts from farmers per day during harvest season, which runs from February to late July. Traders later export the nuts to Vietnam,” he said.

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http://phnompenhpost.com/business/cashe ... -producers
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We now have, on their way, some US specialty crops that I think will be cool to grow here. A couple of them are novelty... like a breed of watermelon that reaches 100 kilo:
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And a breed of pumpkin that reaches 100 kilo as well:
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Not to mention the "Steakhouse Tomato" seeds:
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Some badass cherokee purple tomatoes:
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Some Sugar Baby watermelons, which are the sweetest I've ever tasted.

Some cantaloupe.

And some blackberry bush seeds... which will be an interesting challenge to get started.
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I used to grow quite a lot of those Steakhouse tomatoes. They are solid flesh all the way through and have no juice in them. One slice through them horizontally and they cover a whole slice of bread.
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Did you order the seeds to be delivered by mail? If so where please
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I'm ordering them from Burpee Seeds, and having them sent to a friend in the US who will then repackage them and send to me (as well as some heirloom seeds from his garden crops).

Except the blackberry seeds, I had to go with another online company to get those as burpee only sells the starter plants.
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beaker wrote:Did you order the seeds to be delivered by mail? If so where please
In NZ a old Dalmatian guy had grown them for 50 ?? years so i got seeds from him and gave back any tomatoes that were extra big or special, especially if they were resistant to bugs etc.
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Duncan wrote:I used to grow quite a lot of those Steakhouse tomatoes. They are solid flesh all the way through and have no juice in them. One slice through them horizontally and they cover a whole slice of bread.
Yeah, I'd grown them in the US all the time. Best BLT tomatoes EVER. Cut them about 1cm thick slices with 4-5 srips of bacon.
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OrangeDragon wrote:
Duncan wrote:I used to grow quite a lot of those Steakhouse tomatoes. They are solid flesh all the way through and have no juice in them. One slice through them horizontally and they cover a whole slice of bread.
Yeah, I'd grown them in the US all the time. Best BLT tomatoes EVER.

Cut them about 1cm thick slices with 4-5 srips of bacon.





They must have been small tomatoes. I cut mine in 2 cm thick slices. :lol:
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Duncan wrote:
OrangeDragon wrote:
Duncan wrote:I used to grow quite a lot of those Steakhouse tomatoes. They are solid flesh all the way through and have no juice in them. One slice through them horizontally and they cover a whole slice of bread.
Yeah, I'd grown them in the US all the time. Best BLT tomatoes EVER.

Cut them about 1cm thick slices with 4-5 srips of bacon.





They must have been small tomatoes. I cut mine in 2 cm thick slices. :lol:
I mean... I wouldn't turn it down. But generally we tried for a balance of flavors, lol.
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