really old style living?

liney

My local poundland sell fruit bushes; just make sure you do the scratch the bark trick to see green to ensure they are alive. I have 3 black currants from last year that are doing fine.

parsonswife8

It's quite cloudy here in the South but is still quite warm. I've got a pot of beef curry on the go and we have just had homemade egg and cress sandwiches for lunch. Too hot for a roast dinner today.

I'm going to plant some garlic cloves and keep the pots on the kitchen windowsill and cross my fingers. I'll try anything once.:rotfl:
Have a lovely afternoon and evening.:beer:

mardatha

Spooky Ginny - that song has been in my head all day I just mixed me threads and posted in the "still tough" thread instead of this one. No matter.
I wanted to ask you all something.... would anybody like a "preppers list" of what to stash for one adult per one month ? I have a great one copied from a forum and I found it very helpful. Is easier to stash one month at a time . You just multiply it per number of adults and two kids=one adult, etc.

Welsh_Poppy

ubamother wrote: »

Now if you'd have thought of that just as you'd started digging and persuaded someone to ring the police about your suspicious activities they might have come and dug the whole place up for you!!!

We could have done with help it was for 14 years a cottage garden with tons flowers but birds dropped huge weeds and a total mess in the end got a mini digger to dig 4 ton soil out on our drive and we sieved the lot dug it over and added good top soil and chicken poo:rotfl:..
We have a paved tiny back garden so any veg has been in pots so excited by our little plot.

We have been sucessful with courgettes...so making courguette chutney!!

Thanks tip on fruit bushes will be there Thursday...been waiting for offer.

Oh yes please to preppers stash:)

Thats_Me_3

Mardatha, that would be really useful. Only just found this thread so haven't read allthe way through yet. We make our own yogurt, wine, nettle beer, herb & flower teas, grow most own veg, cook everything from scratch. Hoping when I finish work in Sept (redundancy) to be able to do even more, it will be at just the right time to get on with preserves etc.
Onward and upward!

NualaBuala

mardatha wrote: »

I wanted to ask you all something.... would anybody like a "preppers list" of what to stash for one adult per one month ? I have a great one copied from a forum and I found it very helpful. Is easier to stash one month at a time . You just multiply it per number of adults and two kids=one adult, etc.

Yep - I'd love that!

Wore myself out yesterday so laying low today. Managed to make a big batch of soup so at least I won't starve till I get some energy back.

ginnyknit

Think that would be a useful list Mardatha

Will have a look Giger and see if they are good, could possibly afford a couple then multiply them from cuttings next year!

Hippeechiq

mardatha wrote: »

I wanted to ask you all something.... would anybody like a "preppers list" of what to stash for one adult per one month ? I have a great one copied from a forum and I found it very helpful. Is easier to stash one month at a time . You just multiply it per number of adults and two kids=one adult, etc.

Yes please - I think everyone would appreciate and benefit from such a list

rhiwfield

parsonswife8 wrote: »

I'm going to plant some garlic cloves and keep the pots on the kitchen windowsill and cross my fingers. I'll try anything once.:rotfl:
:beer:

Parsonswife,
not sure you'll have too much success that way. Try planting the cloves outside in late autumn (mine tend to go in Nov 5th!). In the ground if you can cos they really dont need much space. They should be ready for lifting next July and will have benefitted from the winter cold. If you cant fit them in use containers outside,
rhiwfield

parsonswife8

rhiwfield wrote: »

Parsonswife,
not sure you'll have too much success that way. Try planting the cloves outside in late autumn (mine tend to go in Nov 5th!). In the ground if you can cos they really dont need much space. They should be ready for lifting next July and will have benefitted from the winter cold. If you cant fit them in use containers outside,
rhiwfield

Thanks for your advice rhiwfield:). This is just an experiment really.
I will do as you recommend and plant some out in early November.