Mini gardens on the abandoned taxis

陜西 雷卓琳

據報道，泰國的一個出租車公司利用因疫情而閑置的出租車車頂種花和種菜，將廢棄的出租車變成一個個“屋頂花園”。

A “car graveyard” in Bangkok for its brightly coloured cabs has been turned into a vegetable garden with frog ponds, set up to help feed out-of-work drivers. In an open-air parking lot in the west of the Thailand's capital, green shoots fed by rain start to grow from the roofs of the city's pink and orange taxis.

The site is owned by Ratchapruk Taxi Garage,which has seen most of its drivers quit Bangkok for their home villages because of the lockdown restrictions.

“Many of the vehicles still have large loans outstanding on them. This is our last option,” one of the company owners said. “We figured we'd grow vegetables and farm frogs on the roofs of these taxis.”

Thailand ordered tough restrictions to deal with the COVID-19 cases in recent months, including a night-time curfew （宵禁令）. Tourists, normally a mainstay（支柱） of the Bangkok taxi trade, have become gradually fewer to almost none because of strict rules on entering the kingdom.

The eggplants, chillies, cucumbers and other vegetables grown on the cars, along with the frogs,will help feed the out-of-work drivers and employees. And if crops are good, they plan to sell them at local markets.

Growing vegetables on top of the roofs won't damage the taxis since most of them have already been damaged beyond repair.