Tips and Quick Questions on “How To Start Being Old Style”

Penelope_Penguin

Welcome, Missy :beer: Following our PM chat I'll add this to the How to Start out OS thread, where you'll find loads more links and tips for your journey :j

My top tip - write a meal plan for the coming week, make a shopping list to match, and stick to it!

Good luck, Penny. x

Little_Vics

I'm probably going to make a crumble with some apples I had, and also some cheesecakey type thingy with half a tub of ricotta I've got in the fridge. I'm gluten/wheat intolerant, which is a huge pain in butt (sometimes literally!) so like to do a lot of home baking. Am sending hubby out again when it's stopped raining for more for the freezer.

Little_Vics

oh - does anyone know what I can plant out now? Don't have a greenhouse/cold frame, and only have teeny-tiny plot :-(

Penelope_Penguin

Little_Vics wrote: »

oh - does anyone know what I can plant out now? Don't have a greenhouse/cold frame, and only have teeny-tiny plot :-(

Get yourself over to the Greenfingered board Try this thread for starters :T

Penny. x

missymoo81

Thanks pen :A oooh meal planning well have a look into that. I seem to spend forever in tescos not knowing what to buy.

Vic I've been looking on the green fingered plot and they have some helpful advice as to what can be planted now... my raised bed haven't even been started yet so may be some time before I get my veg lol. And poor you being gluten/wheat intolerant, does it make it difficult to cook things??

wish I could send my other half out, he works away every other month so it's just me for the next few weeks. Would love to get the freezer all full up with scrummy food for when he gets back though.

right I really should make a start on trying to make jam, but am entralled with chitty chitty bang bang, yes I know I'm sad!!! :rolleyes:

Little_Vics

being intorelant is a blooming nightmare!! Am off to be a domestic goddess now - enjoy the film!

ChocClare

:whistle:Truly Scrumptious, you're truly, truly scrumptious....

OK, I've just prepared loads of runner beans and apples while watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang so am feeling very holy now :A

You can plant potatoes in buckets if your raised beds aren't ready. Just fill the bottom with earth, put in about three small potatoes and cover. When the leaves come through, add more earth - keep doing that until the bucket is full of earth and then they can grow as tall as you like. If you put them in buckets outside now, you can bring them in when they get frosty and you'll have new potatoes in time for Christmas.

You can plant Autumn varieties of carrot now, but don't start your peas until a bit later. It's too late for courgettes and cucumber, though both are very easy to grow - you'll need to get them in in about May.

If you like lettuce, you can grow that (or "salad" rather than lettuce) practically all the year round as long as you don't let them get too frosty.

You can plant broad beans in November, and you can grow things like chard, if you're into that.

Onions - you need to buy "sets" - they have them in Wilko's at the moment. You can plant them up to November - and garlic too, so you do have time to get your raised beds organised.

If you pm me and send me an SAE, I'll send you some seeds - I've got loads of everything though not peas, I seem to recall. Tell me what you like to eat and I'll have a look through my seed tin.

missymoo81

lol It's the first time I have actually seen chitty chitty bang bang and I never realised there was actually someone called truely scrumptious... think I might change my name by deed poll, lol

thank you for all the advice chocclare, have pm's you my lovely.

faithcecilia

missymoo81 wrote: »

think I might change my name by deed poll,

Easy to do - just done it (but not to Truely Scrumptious!)

missymoo81

lol I think being called truely scrumptious would be lovely although not sure my other half would agree!!!