Rooftop Greenhouse Grow Amsterdam

DST said:

And cof, I was hoping you would give us an update of your Tommy Patch. That looks superb. Are you growing any of the ones that the Fairy sent me? Please keep us updated of its progress.

Peace,

DST

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Thank you. There are some of the same strains. I have too many plants in there and it's crowded-10 strains and 45+ plants-and it's hard to identify which is which when the vines run everywhere. cof

Some bubble pron for whodat, I know he likes his bubbles. This is from the water from making bubble hash. If it don't kill em, it'll only make em stronger




Some pics from our holiday, I'll leave them up for a bit........some strange folk photoboming our pics, lol..

We saw some interesting graf work, some from the outskirts of Toulouse (more to come).

We stopped at this place we thought would be a Port. It was (you can see it in the background, lol) However it was actually a Motorway Service Station ffs. It rained that night, was not a lot to do, and BBC World News gets boring after a while, haha. Oh, and you were NOT allowed to have Pique Nique's, which still creases me up. Fukkin PICNIC you Fwoggies!

Some places actually had proper Port size ports...

Some times the path was good.....

Sometimes that path was bad......

there was always flowers......

and beautiful meandering scenery....

and the fields of wild Poppies.....



and the odd decent bed.....

This was a Hotel from the turn of the 1800's, the Terminus. They had restored all the original furniture, we felt a bit skank turning up hcovered in mud, "avec une chambre ma neeber? mange tout"

there was interesting guttering work...

there was Unesco fairylike Castles from back in the day, this had extra fortification added to it by the Romans to give you an idea of hold old the place is. It was restored in more modern times.

there was chocolate....

there was even thistles...

and old bridges.....

and funny canal boat names....

and even funnier and confusing street signs, so can I go up the street or not? lol.

grumpy old French tractor, haha.

Paul Riquet was the inventor of the Canal de Midi, he died before it was opened but I believe it only took 14 years to complete, and it joined the Med and the Atlantic saving enormous amounts of hassle with logistics in shipping. A legend really, the guy wasn't even an architect or engineer, he just had an idea.

400 year old aqueduct, they don't make things like they use to, lol (or so my Gran would have us believe).

Some cool graf work around, but this was really awesome I thought. Even the lamp is on extension that juts out on the building...genius.

fuk nows who that cardboard cutout is....

Also in Capestang....

Capestang was strange, it was dead, I told my wife I thought it was were the cast from Twilight live and they only come out at night fukkin French Vampire, they actually like Garlic I heard as well.


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most of the places we stayed in were great, the gaff in Capestang was turd though, hairs of unknown bodies on the blankets on the bed, and the towels didn't even fit round your body, It had the cheek of calling itself a Hotel.....yeh ok.

and when we got to the beach, it was lovely until we got to our hotel and it clouded over and rained, lol....at least we didn't need beach towels, ffs! 9km of beach, makes me sick....

we did like the mosaic bike though....

and even though it wasn't our bed, it wasn't bad.

were we had our breakfast. Our room was in this atrium bit, was real nice, like an apartment almost.

and the end of the Canal de Midi

Peace out, DST

^^^ this was sooooo worth subbing for that chocolate looks awsome! And that tractor cracks me right up man. Cheers bud

isn't he brilliant, he even has the old yellow lights. I remember in the 70's when we use to drive from Scotland and actually go through this area in France before hitting Spain, we use to have to get special yellow covers for our cars headlights.

great pics D! scenery is pretty as it gets and i'm bang into cool trompe l'oeil. and agreed that choc does look awesome. europe do chocolate so much better than uk. ours is garbage in comparison, full of vegetable oil and milk, little cocoa, some cheap bars actually taste of oil it's disgusting.

you get some good vino down yer neck lad?

the vino was the disappointing thing, what with the preggers wife we didn't bother going to vineyards (and there were plenty, as well as all the cellars around you could go wine tasting at). She actually forced me to buy a bottle when we arrived in Sete. I order a 75cl bottle and really the second half I just drank for the sake of it. Don't get me wrong it was delicious but I just wasn't up for it. I had some nice half bottles of red the next couple of nights. Interesting how the food was quite pricey, but unlike Northern Europe the wine on the menus was always quite cheap (like top prices 28 euro) which in Amsterdam is run of the mill price. 50 euro plus for a really nice bottle in a good restaurant. The supermarkets seems okay though. We stayed in a place called Homps and there was a supermarket at the garage, we pitched up thinking it would have like 2 cans of tomatoes, a smelly old onion and a bag or rotten potatoes, but this was like a Tardis supermarket. I have never seen so many delicious meats, cheeses, and natcho, seperate room for wine!

Thanks for the pictorial. It gives us a view into other countries and cultures. cof

I'm guessing that aqueduct is older than 400 years?

Nice pics mate. Thanks for sharing. And if you think the chocolate in England is shite, you should taste the stuff here.

One sock on, one sock off.

Like everyone else,,, my eyes got really big when I saw that chocolate the guy is holding the piece like "oh this? you want this one?" customer "please stop torturing me a hand over the sweets!"


Wow man, looks like an amazing trip,,, not one thats easily forgotten.
lmao @ tiny towels more like a wash cloth... wtf can anyone do with that lol

Love the graf work... And those yellow flowers are like flowers inside of flowers, really cool.


Bubbles FTW!!!

Im a great lover of French France. Brill pics D, the mrs commented on ya pants which was nice lmao.

I was so happily lost in the French scenery - and then you go and throw thistles at me!!! hehe Am I weird because I see a slight Mona Lisa smile on that tractor The street art there is so creative! Nice to see that the missus got to go outside without the Eskimo attire!

Are you guys still getting sun or is it hailing again? Cold and windy here. I have almost finished the second blueberry cage and will also be transplanting the tomato from the #7 smartie to mother earth.


Cheers,
Mo

There were Thistles everywhere, those were some of the madest ones we saw, Mo. Weather is still so so over here, although I sat and read my book at the sunny window this afternoon. It's looking cloudy, partly cloudy, rain, rain for the next few days.....

Anyone wants to order the chocolate you can get it here. http://www.real-chocolat.fr/en.html

If anyone in the US wants to split an order I'm game. Minimum 30 euro order, and 25 euro delivery. That's $78.

After harvest....... Im getting some these melty brownies and cold milk will have to do for now.

Melty brownies....oh no, and it's only breakfast, yum yum I want some.

Looks like it could be sunny today!

DST said:

Melty brownies....oh no, and it's only breakfast, yum yum I want some.

Looks like it could be sunny today!

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The best part of being an "adult",,, you can have dessert for breakfast if you want! I like to exercise my freedom every now and then

35 pages tonight DST and i enjoyed every one of them. Thanks for the good read. Im at the part where the tulips are starting and the pumpkin has gotten its first leaves. I cant wait to see how the pumpkin turns out it should be a BIG plant. Heheheee. Be back soon to finnish it off.

Fattyboomsticks was back chilling this morning (back of 5 when I got up).

And an usurper later on in the day.

Engineers Dream DOG.

Hey Ninja, the pumkin is doing fair to middling, it's been bashed about quite a bit while we were on holiday, but we shall persevere

First bloom popped on one of the Azaleas....

I am frightened to leave the house incase they bloom and then the wind blows em all off, lol.....fukkin Dutch wind!

Anyone who likes cooking, here's a few anti pasta dishes that are easy to do (well, except the deep fried pasta which I am still figuring out. I got these from a place we visited on holiday.


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we got roasted peppers (anyone can do that, stick peppers in a roasting tray, with olive oil and balsamic, salt and pepper, then roast, let them cool, then chop and serve......
we got eggplant/aubergine sliced and then roasted with olive oil and salt and pepper. Then cooled and you then make some tuna and mayonnaise (remembering to add MINT to that) then wrap the tuna/mint/mayo up in the eggplant. Mint and eggplant are an outstanding combo!!!
Carrots cooked with brown sugar and added to a shallot and white wine reduction. Boil the carrots with the sugar to your desired crunchyness (some prefer them soft). Then fry some shallots, add a bit of brown sugar, then white wine and reduce, then toss in the carrots and finish off. Leave them to cool and serve as they are AMOZ BALLS THEY ARE!!
Now the deep fried pasta didn't turn out as it was in the restaurant. I think they probably boiled their pasta first. I just made some pasta (I am into home made pasta) and then added grated parmesan (as the waiter told me) and deep fried.....they came out more like crisps than the lovely chewey morish ones we had on holiday, so I can only think the pasta needs cooking first, before deep frying......

Have a happy sunny afternoon.

Peace, DST

Amsterdam is the shit. Growing some seeds from amsterdam right now.

pasta machine ??? shallots n carrots in vine and balsamic sounds lush. funny i had epic tapas this weekend too.

get out in that sun!!!