Preparedness for when

JayneC

Hi all,

Nuatha thanks for the link to the food forest. There is one in Leeds, I helped out developing it as part of my Permaculture course. I think we need more of these - no real reason why parks and municipal plantings couldn't edible...

GQ re sewer and drains capacity on new housing developments, A friend of mine who lived on a fairly new development found that when there was heavy rain her drains backed up and she got lovely piles of toilet tissue on her drive - luckily actual sewage didn't appear but nevertheless not nice, she's moved now;)

Thanks for the nettle recipes, especially liked the nettle pasta;D

Planted 52 spuds today:D - someone had leftovers and gave them to me so shoved them in - a bit late but worth a go!! My back is totally done in - too much digging...

Gone cold here again:(, please come back mr sunshine, hope that wasn't summer...

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I see a woman has died, and her husband was very ill, after mistaking Amanita phalloides for an edible fungi.

With there being no edibility test for fungi, positive identification is vital.

Butterfly_Brain

Just creeping back in. I have had a busy week so not been on the computer much.
On the subject of growing veggies, the french, broad and runner beans have all started to burst into life and I have a small sign that the dried butter beans (from the supermarkup dried foods shelf) have started to grow I also planted a few of the dried marrowfat peas, so we shall see. The ordinary peas have just started to shoot and the chard, spinach, salad leaves, cucumber and courgettes are looking good. The cherry and pear trees are in blossom and the loganberry, hazel, blackcurrant, blueberry, strawberries. raspberries and goosgogs all look good. I won't get a crop from the new cherry tree this year so hopefully there will be some wild ones about, the birds and squirrels got all of them last year, plus all of the damsons, walnuts and cherry plums
No sign of tomatoes, cabbage, cauli, carrots, parsnips, pumpkins and swede. Herb wise I have six sorts of mint, rosemary, marjoram, sage, thyme, parsley, chamomile and the basil and chives (bought last year in Aldi from salad aisle and just left in the garden have started to grow back.:) I also have plenty of dandelions in the lawn that I am going to use to attempt dandelion coffee and use blackberry leaves for blackberry leaf tea. The potatoes are just starting to shoot and I am looking at putting in some brussels and kale this week....... sorry mardatha

My prepping this week is to have a cooking marathon in the next couple of days and fill the freezer with easy meals for everyone and lots of notes and lists I am at the hospital on Monday, Doctor's on Wednesday and having an Op next Thursday so I will be off my feet for at least a fortnight. Which means that I have to rely on them to look after the garden :eek: It also means that I might not be on the computer much either Hey ho I will be glad to get it out of the way.

It has just started chucking it down outside and really wind to boot, still the plants need it

lovefullshelves

Rhubarb pie -amish
3 cups rhubarb (american cups, a cup is about 250ml in volume, my measuring jug has them on)
1 1/4 cups sugar(I used granulated)
2Tbsp water
3Tbsp flour (plain)
1Tbsp lemon juice(bottled worked)
2 eggs
1 9" unbaked pie shell (6oz flour, 3 oz fat, 1 egg, tsp sugar, water to mix)
Crumb topping - 3Tbst flour, 3 Tbsp sugar and 2Tbsp butter mixed together.
(I used a 8 inch silicon cake tin, it needs high sides, trust me!)

1. Place rhubarb in pie shell
2. Combine remaining ingredients (except crumb mix) and stir to form a smooth paste
3. Pour over rhubarb.
4. Cover with crumb topping by dropping clumps all over.
5. Bake at 210 degrees for 10 mins, then 170 degrees for 30-40 mins, should be lightly brown and a little wibbly(just set!).

This is soooo good and tastes more custardy than rhubarby, we have(me and OH) demolished half of it in a day :O
Its quite sweet be warned, but om nom nom:D

daz378

on an early tomorrow .... but after might fill the freezer (less pressure on tins).... been consciously prepping for about 8 months and still havent bought a BOB... next annual leave must get a rucksack probably June....carry on prepping ... as reports state them icelandic volcanoes are getting a bit frisky....http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/view_news/33165/Hekla-volcano-Iceland-strong-inflation-suggest-volcano-could-be-close-to-erupting.html

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pineapple

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

I see a woman has died, and her husband was very ill, after mistaking Amanita phalloides for an edible fungi.

With there being no edibility test for fungi, positive identification is vital.

Apparently just half of one of those mushrooms can kill you.
I often see mushrooms when out and about and sometimes in the garden and leave them alone. I don't know enough, so for me, the nutritional/free food benefit is just not worth the risk.

Found a young blue tit in the potato bag next to the house wall yesterday evening. It appeared to have injured it's leg. I'm guessing it fell off the roof. Much consultation with neighbours about what to do. It could fly a little and even went on the bird feeder momentarily. Anyhow the poor little thing died within about 20 minutes of spotting it. I even tried heart massage!

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pineapple wrote: »

I even tried heart massage!

With or without rescue breaths?

thriftwizard

Found a young blue tit in the potato bag next to the house wall yesterday evening. It appeared to have injured it's leg. I'm guessing it fell off the roof. Much consultation with neighbours about what to do. It could fly a little and even went on the bird feeder momentarily. Anyhow the poor little thing died within about 20 minutes of spotting it. I even tried heart massage!

Well, there's dedication for you!

I "rescued" a baby blackbird that had fallen into the road a couple of days ago. At a rough guess it had blown out of the nest; the parents were going frantic up on the roof, but it was quite stunned & not yet able to respond. Fully feathered-up so ready to fledge; I put it closer to them & hidden from casual view (or being run over) but haven't a clue whether it recovered or not. It's not been an easy spring for the birds & they still need all the help they can get.

pineapple

thriftwizard wrote: »

Well, there's dedication for you!

I "rescued" a baby blackbird that had fallen into the road a couple of days ago. At a rough guess it had blown out of the nest; the parents were going frantic up on the roof, but it was quite stunned & not yet able to respond. Fully feathered-up so ready to fledge; I put it closer to them & hidden from casual view (or being run over) but haven't a clue whether it recovered or not. It's not been an easy spring for the birds & they still need all the help they can get.

It's tricky knowing what to do with them isn't it. I think the general advice is to leave them or maybe try to put them out of reach of cats and hope for the best. A bird rescue charity told me that if you take an injured wild bird to the RSPCA they simply destroy it - unless it is rare or protected.
I once had a couple of baby birds fall down the chimney. I could hear them between the chimney liner and chimney wall on top of the blanking plate so had to rip the whole thing apart to get at them!
Removed outside but the parents didnt come to them. Placed in protective custody! One died but the other (it was either a crow or a jackdaw) was reared by myself. It would go for walks with me and the dog sat on my shoulder like a pirate's parrot! Once it learnt to fly it would disappear into the trees but return when I called 'crow!' It never did master landing and would usually crash land on my head! If it tarried on the lane behind me I would send the collie to round it up as in 'Go find crow'. I bought a huge cage for it but when I was home it was free to run around - it used to like pushing yoghurt cartons around, unravel any loose thread it could find, dive bomb my dinner and would sleep on top of the dog! But it crapped everywhere. Also I couldn't let it outside unsupervised - too many cats. And it would attack the patio door trying to get back in! When it started trying to get into the neighbours houses I realised I would have to build an aviary for it. I couldn't just take it somewhere and release it as it wouldn't have survived. In the end I took it to a bird sanctuary in Sheffield