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Vacation, 16049 Posted by Jason Western PA on July 20, 2025, 8:48 pm Tobacco field in KY on our way to President Lincolns Boyhood home. My haul from Gulf Shores AL. Windmill palm, pindo palm, long leaf pine and a cast iron plant. I did get a few sago palm seeds on a plant along the street. hehe 16049 Sabal minor from Rob, still kicking. My tobacco. Jen for size.

Re: Vacation, 16049 Posted by Tom in PA on July 20, 2025, 8:56 pm, in reply to "Vacation, 16049" The post office looks great! That crape is doing well. Is it protected at all during winter?

Re: Vacation, 16049 Posted by Fred SC on July 21, 2025, 2:04 pm, in reply to "Vacation, 16049" Jason, did y’all by chance go thru Bardstown, ZKy. I lived and taught school there for r30 years. Big tourist destination. Lots to see s as bd do there. Bourbon capitol of world, dinner train, distilleries.large historical district, many places from 1700’s. St Joseph cathedral seat of Catholic Church in the west in 1700’s, Talbott tavern oldest business in continuous operation west of Appalachian Mountains , I was a bartender there in summer of 1975. City with your visit. Wow your post office planting is beautiful. Surprised there are any burley tobacco grown in Kentucky. Most tobacco is outsourced to Brazil now. What you gonna do with your little tobacco crop?

Re: Vacation, 16049 Posted by Kevin seTN on July 21, 2025, 5:44 pm, in reply to "Vacation, 16049" The post office looks great Jason! Kevin seTN

Re: Vacation, 16049 Posted by Jason Western PA on July 21, 2025, 7:41 pm, in reply to "Re: Vacation, 16049" Thank you! I had to do some thinning of the trunks. It was over taking the sidewalk.

Re: Vacation, 16049 Posted by Jason Western PA on July 21, 2025, 7:45 pm, in reply to "Re: Vacation, 16049" I did not. But I see we were very close on 65. Wish I had time to stop there. We did stop in Louisville at the Sluggers Manufacture. My tobacco will be dried and given away to some coworkers. I don't smoke or chew. I may try it but we will see. haha I love the smell when its drying. The Amish grow a lot of it in Lancaster PA.

Re: Vacation, 16049 Posted by Jason Western PA on July 21, 2025, 7:46 pm, in reply to "Re: Vacation, 16049" Thank you! No protection at all for the crape. OOOh, the cactus from OBX is growing there also. I forgot to share.

Re: Vacation, 16049 Posted by AJ Mid TN on July 22, 2025, 6:11 pm, in reply to "Vacation, 16049" Really awesome trip!

Re: Vacation, 16049 Posted by Fred SC. on July 23, 2025, 5:22 am, in reply to "Re: Vacation, 16049" Jason, I know stopping at the slugger museum in Louisville is great. I bet the boys love that. The smell of tobacco a drying is nice.. my papaw always proper. Mainly he grew tobacco and lived on someone else’s place . It was a big job then they plowed the ground., plan, worked all summer, stripped it, hanging in the barn. They booked tobacco by sorting it by size and tied it up in the little plugs to take it to market.. nowadays they just make a big bundle and sell it that way like I said 2/3 of the tobacco farmers no longer grow . They grew in government allotments . bought out the allotments . Back then besides coal and whiskey , tobacco was the money maker, it was a major part of Kentucky culture. It had always been that’s why they had slavery in Kentucky at one time to work those big tobacco plantations. Today Kentucky is more about manufacturing. They have lots of automobile and truckmanufacturing. The whole South now his big time automobile product. , especially in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina.

Re: Vacation, 16049 Posted by Jason Western PA on July 23, 2025, 9:18 pm, in reply to "Re: Vacation, 16049" We had a blast.

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