POGreen's Grow Log 2014

[BarG]

I'm good for several at least. I am looking good. I will be better next year. You will too. We get better with age and I am getting a lot of that. We are talking tobacco right.
Its amazing though how much tobacco you can smoke in a year. you do not realiaze it when you buy it as opposed to what we do, and handle from start to finish.

 

[POGreen]

Think I am too , but what the heck , a feller's got to do somethin , right ?
Buyin my snus over here is would be 7 bucks/puck/can and I use almost 1 a day , after newyear they'll raise tax/price on snus by another 20 % !

But now , when makin my own

and my own is many many times better than the crap that sells over here.

 

[POGreen]

 

[Mad Oshea]

That looks like a fun place to live. Is that a weekend market in the forground?

 

[deluxestogie]

I see what you mean about not having a car. The streets are empty.

Bob

 

[Mad Oshea]

Where would You park one? I see alot of buss stops. I guess every one is at the beach.

 

[Brown Thumb]

I wonder if they know about Road Rage. Maybe Bicycle Rage?
Just too cool looking of a pic. Like a step back in time. The good old days. Sounds very laid back.

 

[POGreen]

This pic is taken early one morning and we were hostig as always , Swedish Beach Tour , where they play the Swedish Championships in BeachVolleyboll.
There is normally 5 vendors mostly sellin vegetables , fruit and eggs.
No one sells snus , thers a pretty big kiosk in the other end that does , the square has really been busy this summer with all kinds of events , now the tourists have went home and its pretty queit.
You 're prohibited to drive a car through this Brogatan , but buses run on a regular scedule.
The church was 1 out of 2 buildings that could withstand a great fire back in 1619.
There is almost 100 000 people livin in the municipality of Halmstad.
Mad , you'll find many places to park yer car when u get here...... there's a garage under the hole square for starters

 

[Jitterbugdude]

Beautiful town. Is that tobacco I see hanging from that window near where the red arrow is?

 

[POGreen]

If you do Randy , you sure have some good eyesight Yeah its pretty nice , but there's been too much noise/events and nuisance from down at the square this year , or one is gettin older........
Some pics from the last few days
There was a dead seal or somethin just where I got the seaweed ( been layin around for weeks )...................

Got a notion/idea the other day and took a 16 mile ride to get some seaweed to bury in my patch ( 60 gallons in a box on a bike ) = MaD Cargo fell overboard 1 time on the beach and no wonder
The apples here are NOT goin to buried at any 1000 year old burial site........
Patch is wet an soggy now , but it ain't stoppin me from diggin + burying organic waste like apples + more.....
Situation in the forestglade is lookin just fine with me , but I'll wait for another week or so to take them leaves

Chow this day at noon , chorizo sausages and homemade mash , used some garlic/herb spice to step up the mash and that was tops ! Bearish Mustard to your right

 

[POGreen]

My endeavours out on my patch as of yesterday , was out there early in the mornin with the aim to dig and fill some holes in the ground , when suddenly Nils-Ebbe came and mowed the hole open area we have.
I raked together 3 barrels of that valuable grass and worked hard all day almost and managed to complete up to 15 holes with that grass.

 

[POGreen]

Was up really early today 5.30 or so and took my bike out to my patch , picked 3 bags of apples on my way out ( this has become a habit ) and continued raking grass like the MadMan I am.
The apples are just as wild as I am
Had to be back in town before 10 to sell a pound of snus to an elderly feller ( he's buying from me steady now) , got the cash and had a stroll in town for a change.
Thought I was worth an early dinner and tried to find a good place that served the buffet ( eat as much as I can in my world ) but that was harder than I had anticipated.
Finally came up with a emergency solution which was so and so ok........
Back home I saw that they had called me from the association ( where the patches are ) , I looked up who had called and it was one of women in the board .
I called her and it turned out that she wanted my help to mow grass in the aisles between the patches....... I got confused than I normally are
But I yes to that and after that I continued digging and stuffing the grass into more holes.
Am extending my patch with 1 more row for next year , it is thought to be meant for 12-13 Del Gold plants.
Might take on one more patch too , just to grow Brazilian tobacco on.
Brasil Bahia from our seedbank and Brasil Dunkel from tabakenbau in Germany.
Mata Fina is a real itch

 

[POGreen]

Grinded a pound of Virginia Red Leaf ( WLT ) yesterday late afternoon , I had it comin to me.....
Next to grind would be Burley from the GeurillaPatches , have 225 grams so far and might come up short to a kilo I reckon , dry weight as we speak
Color is a bit like gingerbreadish.

 

[Brown Thumb]

You come up with a new grinder or is old nelly still working.

 

[POGreen]

Sure , old nelly is working like a clock.
I have had quite a few hickups with her , but I never gave up on her and now she treats me like a doll.
Was thinkin to go wild like Mad and do some kinda flexible connection but we'll see.....
What I could actually freshen up a bit is the funnel , its just an empty bag of flour or more parts of it together with some electricanstape.

 

[POGreen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWinJwgFD2E&feature=youtu.be

 

[Brown Thumb]

Great vid PO. I love the hanging.

 

[POGreen]

So did I , but I'll just pop down and get somethin to eat , boy o boy o boy have I got a stoty to tell ya'll..............

 

[POGreen]

I'm sort of in a state of shock , as we all know the Rustica leaf has a tendency to curl when it cures.
Everything went along just fine , no hickups on the road with the load if I say so , but when I got home in good time before dinner , I thought to myself I wanna open up those curls and see if they're clean enough to be accepable for snus.
Guess what I found inside those curls ?
EARWIGS !
From what I can understand those fellers don't like the light , that's why you used to find 'em in yer mailbox when one was a kid.
Understood instantly what I had to do , like Boboro said in a thread : Just kill them !
Had to work through the hole box ( a 1000 leaves ? ) anyway they were many , reeled up/unfolded every leaf and found several hundred in the hole stack/pile.



Had very good help doing what I did from my Timberlands and wellies.
Took me 5 hours + to work through what I brought home.



The pile is now taking a break from all that harassment from the earwigs.
I'll string'em up on the wire tomorrow.That is the leaves I mean
Puh , now I need a nice piece of snus.......

 

[POGreen]

In my case ( not high/low case ) it became a hideout for them , think about it if you grow Rustica plants.
One experience richer in live is what I have become.