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Nature’s cure
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 24/01/2016
» After more than two months of intensive care at Ramathibodi Hospital, popular actor Tridsadee “Por” Sahawong finally lost his fight against dengue haemorrhagic fever. He died on Monday, just five days short of his 38th birthday.
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Nature’s air conditioners
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 10/01/2016
» While I was writing this, extreme weather was wreaking havoc in many parts of the world. In South America, vast areas in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay were hit in what was said to be the “worst flooding in 50 years”. Deadly tornadoes, snowstorms and floods brought winter woes to Texas, Missouri, Illinois, Oklahoma, Arkansas and several other states in the US Midwest and South, and record-breaking rains brought floods that devastated parts of northern England and Scotland.
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The problem with papaya
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 20/07/2014
» Papaya is one of the easiest plants to grow, but I don’t see it planted in many Bangkok backyards. This is probably because the fruit is available all year round and can be purchased at any time. This is OK if you are not particular about the variety, but those who prefer kaek-dahm complain that it is becoming increasingly difficult to find.
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When your garden goes squirrelly
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 02/03/2014
» In urban gardens, the occasional squirrel or two feeding on the fruit of trees can be a welcome sight. When my children were growing up, my son would not let me pick ripe fruit from a papaya tree that was within reach of his bedroom window so that squirrels would come to feed on them. “We can buy fruit, the squirrels cannot,” he said. Now we have star fruit trees, and the ground under them is littered by young fruit which have fallen after squirrels have eaten their tender seeds. During the mango season, the fluffy-tailed rodents jump to neighbouring trees to merrily nibble at my neighbour’s ripening mangoes, or jackfruit on another neighbour’s tree.
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Trees to eclipse an eyesore
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 17/02/2013
» Mark Lockwood-Sykes wanted to make sure that the bamboo planting distance I wrote of in ''Green Fingers'' on Jan 27 was not a typographical error. ''You talked about planting bamboo six to eight metres apart. Is there a good reason for this?'' he asked. ''I live next to a khlong and although there is a two metre fence, the shambles of a house on the other side is an eyesore.
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Take it to the bank trees to plant by rivers
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 15/07/2012
» Nick Ferren sent me an email saying that he built his house on the bank of a tributary of the Moon River in Ubon Ratchathani. ''With the flooding, the soil at the bank should be protected,'' he wrote.
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Queen's words inspire gardener to rise above flood damage
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 29/07/2012
» Noppadol Na-ngern learned a lesson from the deluge that nearly wiped out his valuable collection of plants almost six years ago. ''I realised that there's no safe place for plants but up,'' he said. ''Now I hang them whenever possible, and trees come in handy for the purpose.''
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Be sweet to yourself with soursop
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 19/02/2012
» The Jan 1 article on soursop (Annona muricata) generated letters from readers. Dr Kittipongse Sumipan, a retired scientist who worked at the National Research Council of Thailand, wrote to say that the fruit is common in his hometown of Nakhon Si Thammarat in southern Thailand.
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These trees love a sea breeze
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 04/03/2012
» Marc Jacqueline and his wife have acquired a piece of land near Khanom Bay in Nakhon Si Thammarat and want to plant trees around their property to define its borders. ''We were planning to use mango and coconut trees, but maybe we should look at alternatives such as teak or Acacia mangium or Caesalpinia pulcherrima,'' he wrote.
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Grow your own
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 01/04/2012
» The floods that put nearly a third of Thailand underwater for months last year sent the price of vegetables soaring, that is if they were available at all. This served as a lesson to one couple, who decided to ensure they maintain a steady supply of herbs and vegetables, floods or no floods.
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