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SmokeyJock

Starting to Get Obsessed
Oct 4, 2024
148
1,655
Scotland
Postman has delivered.

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What a gem. Published around 1950 and based on the initiative of the Rev. Hugh Cuthbertson, this slim volume contains the knowledge and experience of amateur tobacco growers of the time. Wow.

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Looks like I have some reading to do!
You'd be doing the world a favour if you have time/resources to scan this book and upload it to the internet archive
 

BingBong

Lifer
Apr 26, 2024
1,279
5,572
London UK
You'd be doing the world a favour if you have time/resources to scan this book and upload it to the internet archive
I will look into doing so - there is a lot of optimised info here compressed into a small space, the essentials and no waste. While it is beyond me, physically, to start cultivating and producing, nobody should be denied the info to have the best chance.
 

SmokeyJock

Starting to Get Obsessed
Oct 4, 2024
148
1,655
Scotland
I will look into doing so - there is a lot of optimised info here compressed into a small space, the essentials and no waste. While it is beyond me, physically, to start cultivating and producing, nobody should be denied the info to have the best chance.
It feels like life keeps giving me more and more signs I should get an allotment
 

MisterBadger

Starting to Get Obsessed
Oct 6, 2024
268
2,303
Ludlow, UK
It feels like life keeps giving me more and more signs I should get an allotment
@SmokeyJock - Here's another one: Get an allotment. Even if you end up not growing tobacco, it's a good, healthy occupation, you can grow stuff you can't get in the shops (or more expensive than you're willing to buy), and you get to meet some interesting people. And have you seen this?

 

SmokeyJock

Starting to Get Obsessed
Oct 4, 2024
148
1,655
Scotland
@SmokeyJock - Here's another one: Get an allotment. Even if you end up not growing tobacco, it's a good, healthy occupation, you can grow stuff you can't get in the shops (or more expensive than you're willing to buy), and you get to meet some interesting people. And have you seen this?

I hadn't so thanks for sharing it! I've been interested in growing some of my own food for a while now so I think I'll get myself on the local allotment waiting list
 

MisterBadger

Starting to Get Obsessed
Oct 6, 2024
268
2,303
Ludlow, UK
I hadn't so thanks for sharing it! I've been interested in growing some of my own food for a while now so I think I'll get myself on the local allotment waiting list
Now might well be a very good time: during the CoVID-19 shutdown everyone was feeling apocalyptic and clamouring to get one, and now the novelty has worn off, a lot of folk have found it entails more work than they are able or willing to do, and are not renewing their tenancies. I'm a member of the National Allotments Association and run a local allotments group so if I can help in any way, now or later, you have but to ask :)