NEW ROUND OF HARVESTING AND DRYING
August - October 2022 A great many plants had been lost during the process so far. Every time the plants were moved, a number of stems were broken, no matter how neatly they were lifted. To replace the loss, I harvested 4200 new plants. I did this at the end of August - first week of September. The plants were immediately hung out for hanging. But there was a lot of humidity, and with experience from the mold the year before, I didn't dare hang them long enough. Now they were going inside, not in Ryghsetra's barn, but in the outbuilding in Sylling. |
VENTILATION IN THE OUTDOOR IN SYLLING
Unfortunately, there was a lot of humidity, and eventually rain was forecast. In October, I cleared space in the outhouse in Sylling, so that the dried nettles could hang between two supporting beams in an area of the building. In addition, they were laid as roof tiles over the supporting beams that run across the room. So there were nettles in two places now; in Sylling and at Ryghsetra in Drammen.
Since the notches overlapped each other somewhat, I created a cord system that made it possible to hoist the overlapping plants, allowing air to get between the two layers.
In addition to air vents at each end of the building, I bought two large fans that moved in a semicircle. This way I got good circulation in the room, so much so that the plants throughout the room fluttered slightly. The fans were set so that there was a breeze both upstairs and downstairs.
Under the roof there is also a 10 – 15 cm open ventilation gap all the way with chicken wire to prevent birds and cats from getting in. So it should be very airy and dry inside the house. But... This time too we got mold due to humidity. So we closed one of the ventilation holes.
And I still wonder: What did they do in the old days? Were the nettles as dry as tobacco?
Photo Fride Kramer Riseng. Molod in the outhouse
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