As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

oldtractor

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Primrose wrote: »

kohl rabi is a delightful vegetable to grow. It's bulb, which resembles a turnip, looks like a sputnick with the leaves sprouting out from the bulb.

I have kohl rabi growing this year but I think I made a mistake in getting seeds for a gigantic one and then I sowed too many never realising that they would grow so enormously tall. I pulled 4 out yesterday because they were lifting the top off the cage and I peeled what I assume were the start of bulbs and them I roasted them in a medley

Well what a pleasant surprise, they were totally lovely and so much better than I expected. Ok so I am going to be pulling these long before they reach maturity but that was my mistake and I`ll be growing the much smaller ones next year

anguk

the_cat wrote: »

Thanks for the info. Thats too much for me too!

I have got a 4 shelf mini greenhouse with the plastic cover though so I think that I will try to remodel that. Thinking of a hanging rail at the top for shirts/tops etc and either keeping the shelving at the bottom for undies or using some kind of wire across the frame to make it more like a washing line. Any better ideas greatfully received though:D

I thought about using one of those plastic green houses too.

Argos have got a large walk in one for half price at £24.99 until 14th June. You'd be able to dry quite a bit of washing in one of those!
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/7201998/Trail/searchtext%3EGREENHOUSE.htm

We used to have a smaller one but it blew apart and ripped last year despite tying it to the shed! It gets very windy up here.

saveabobortwo

i know how you feel since hearing yesterdays news iv spent my time figuring out a way to not have to rely on fuel companies iv got to raise 199 pound by selling a few itemsbut i dont care i have nt got no more money to give these greedy people.

ellanutella

Thanks for all your tips re: overpayment, had a horrible phone conversation with the people handling the account for "our client (my old employer), was shaking after I put the phone down. Am going to get some advice on it but by the looks of things I will have to pay it back.

Can't help thinking it's a sign of the times that this thread moves so quickly in a few hours!

saveabobortwo

what he means by a lack of sun spots as got this info second hand from hubby?

kate1974

oldtractor wrote: »

the daily mail is running an article about pasta and bread rising 25% and elec and gas by a lot as well.

One of my most useful MS buys recently was pasta making machine from our local charity shop.The cost of freshly made pasta for four of us is around 10 pence.it's a bit of hit and miss to begin with but as soon as you get used to it it's brilliant.And pasta tastes great!
And for the bread-I make my own-cost of loaf is about 20-30 pence for a simple one and 40-50 pence for a fancy one.
I use Morrison for a petrol and as soon as i get a £5.00 voucher I buy 10 packets of basic flour-52 pence for each-so 15 kgs of flour cost me 20 pence :money:-enough to last nearly 2 months as I bake a lot!
Well I better finally introduce myself-we're family of 4-2 adult,2 kids.OH works away so from Monday till Friday i live like a single mum:o with 2 kids.I've got 2 jobs what fits perfectly around my routine and gives us extra income.
I'm very OS person(as my mum once sais-you(meaning me) don't need to be so thrifty as your granma was!-my gran by the way was bringing up 5 kids on her own in nearly war-destroyed Russia while her husband was on the frontline for nearly 4 years) but I've never really understood the way some people live-spend today and think about it tomorrow.
I cook,knit,mend and do,have a sewing machine(and using it!),make jams(last year I made 40 litres of different jams) and preserves.I can't really say I enjoy it-but we've lived through enormous financial crisis 12 yers ago(not in England of course) when prices gone up 3-4 times over couples of weeks(and salaries stayed the same) and that made me extra cautious.
I really enjoy reading all your posts as some of them remind me about my own childhood(yes we had Home Economy lessons as well-cooking and sewing mostly!) and there's great community spirit here.
Now I'm back to lurking

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I have this dehydrator. It was expensive but I will get my money back pretty quickly esp if I go porcini hunting again this year

http://www.ukjuicers.com/excalibur-9-tray-dehydrator-black

I have decided to follow oldtractor and will dry most of my onions so that will actually take a lot of `worry` off my shoulders. I have grown onions long ago and they didn`t last incredibly long hanging in the garage and I need to recoup my costs re re-starting gardening again. I`ll also dig out my old vacuum sealer and I`ll put them into bags that I can seal, like belt and braces after they are dried. It`ll stop the lock and locks being tied up too long and it`ll save a lot of space

I`ve had two other different dehydrators in my lifetime, both cheaper and one was cheap but not so good. tbh there will be no electricity cost as we have home generated electricity via pv and the dehydrator takes very little when it is running

YORKSHIRELASS

I have just found this thread and love the ideas that people are coming up with. I also love the title. In a bygone era I would definitely be living in the workhouse along with my poorly son as I care for him full time and cant work at the moment (sobering thought!).

I am already getting anxious about next winter. Our central heating is oil fired which cost us an absolute fortune last year. Our house is draughty, we need new doors and windows which we cant afford, and myself and son are at home alot. Our electricity is already £80 a month.

I am currently listing lots of things on ebay. I have far too many possessions (especially clothes and shoes) and I am determined to clear out a good part of my wardrobe. If I make a reasonably decent amount (fingers crossed) I will put it towards getting some heating oil while the prices are low.

redlady_1

I thought that if you just hung the onions up they would dry out naturally. However, mine are sprouting!!!! How do you do this please without it affecting the onion or using a machine?