Preparedness for when

NewShadow

boultdj wrote: »

What you watch'in?.....I see Flim 4 is having a si-fi week, looking forwad to Oblivion.

You know, edge of tomorrow is actually surprisingly good.

I was shocked.

Karmacat

boultdj wrote: »

What you watch'in?.....I see Flim 4 is having a si-fi week, looking forwad to Oblivion.

Modern but older - Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Contagion, 2012 (I love the rush from the house to the first little plane and the immediate moments after takeoff, they're such fun )

I'd be interested in Oblivion, especially because of Morgan Freeman :j but I don't have a tv licence any more, and I won't pay for a Tom Cruise DVD - nothing more than 50p in a charity shop, anyway. Let me know if its good, and I'll look out for it!



ETA - Divergent and Insurgent too, but a bit derivative, I thought.

boultdj

Agree 'bout 2012, it's so o.t.t. but I love it, also I like the hunger games film's, and it's Morgan that caught my attention as well, I will let you know if it's any good.
I will keep my eyes open for edge of tomorrow, thanks for the heads up NewShadow.

maryb

My sugarholic DD2 went to the Reading Festival just after her A levels with three other girls also sugarholics. They didn't exactly pack the ingredients for a balanced diet, lol. DD2 found a tube of chocolate spread and this went down very well with her group. They sat outside their tent one evening each taking it in turn to squeeze some onto a finger and licking it off with murmurs of bliss. Some older lads nearby were very puzzled - they thought this was a new recreational drug they hadn't heard of:eek:

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We've just harvested the first rhubarb of the season and leeks from the garden too and He Who Knows has planted potatoes and the onion set he planted a few weeks ago is sprouting very nicely. This is the earliest time of year that we can reasonably expect anything fresh from the garden that hasn't stood over the winter so we're approaching 'hungry gap' time. We've still got parsnips on the allotment and leeks and some sorry looking cabbages but when they're used up that's it until the new seasons produce comes to maturity. Time to put our foraging heads on and even walking in the city this afternoon I saw nettles, hairy bittercress, dandelions, common mallow growing well on the wasteland we passed but I reckon that it will be late May at the earliest before we get a crop from the garden even with the help of the polytunnel. We'd not starve but I suspect we'd never feel replete and satisfied on a diet of weeds. Time to be planning ways of making sure we have enough in reserve to see us through this period next year. I'm making sure I grow enough French beans to allow a goodly amount of them to dry off on the vine for haricots in the autumn and herbs to favour them in the garden and garlic for when the leeks and home grown onions are finished. Potatoes are over by now and roots past their best so what will you be growing to give some fresh produce between now and the summer harvest?

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Not exactly OT for a SHTF thread, but I've just watched the ISS pass overhead.

It's a pretty clear sky, and it was ~ 3.0 mag (and it was visible for ~ 4.5 minutes), so it was easy to see. :cool:

mardatha

Absolutely nothing MrsL ... far too cold for even the weeds to grow up here yet. I put my tatties in around mid May! Today has been constant rain and 5C, forecast for tomorrow is more rain and 7C. Historically Scots may have spent April eating porridge and kale, but this Scot is eating porridge and Sainsburys lol

nuatha

NewShadow wrote: »

Lies. Lies. Slanderous Lies!

There is nothing more exciting than access to cheese in a SHTF situation.

In any form.

Scientific Fact.

A lady after my heart (though flank steak works better with cheese)

You can also get some veggie pates in tubes, Granovita do a remarkably good mushroom pate and their herb is tasty. Kavli (Primula) do (or did) meat pates in Scandinavia which I've never seen in the UK which are excellent.

Paneer is remarkably quick and easy to produce (better with untreated milk, but 5oz of single cream to a pint of full fat milk will give decent curds)

DawnW

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

We've just harvested the first rhubarb of the season and leeks from the garden too and He Who Knows has planted potatoes and the onion set he planted a few weeks ago is sprouting very nicely. This is the earliest time of year that we can reasonably expect anything fresh from the garden that hasn't stood over the winter so we're approaching 'hungry gap' time. We've still got parsnips on the allotment and leeks and some sorry looking cabbages but when they're used up that's it until the new seasons produce comes to maturity. Time to put our foraging heads on and even walking in the city this afternoon I saw nettles, hairy bittercress, dandelions, common mallow growing well on the wasteland we passed but I reckon that it will be late May at the earliest before we get a crop from the garden even with the help of the polytunnel. We'd not starve but I suspect we'd never feel replete and satisfied on a diet of weeds. Time to be planning ways of making sure we have enough in reserve to see us through this period next year. I'm making sure I grow enough French beans to allow a goodly amount of them to dry off on the vine for haricots in the autumn and herbs to favour them in the garden and garlic for when the leeks and home grown onions are finished. Potatoes are over by now and roots past their best so what will you be growing to give some fresh produce between now and the summer harvest?

Have you tried micro greens Mrs L? I thought I would try this year to use up old seed. I have radish, mizuna and lettuce up so far. Apparently you harvest them when they get their first true leaves and are a couple of cm high, just pull them up, wash them and eat the lot, root and all (in salads or stir fries). I will probably do this with thinnings, leaving a few plants in the containers to get a bit bigger. I use plastic mushroom tubs etc to grow them in (make holes first with a not skewer) plus any old containers. Mine are in an old plastic mini greenhouse but they are fine on windowsills by all accounts

Apart from that, I have rhubarb and herbs ready- parsley, chives, thyme, sage, bay, rosemary and a bit of mint. None of this would stave off starvation, but it is nice to have something fresh

Karmacat

As far as early harvests go, I haven't managed to do anything this year, far too concerned with maintenance and just keeping going, but I *did* keep 3 old double glazed units when I had some windows replaced a few years ago - I intend to make cold frame tops out of them, I even have the makings of the sides, in terms of old wooden doors etc. If things were desperate, that'd be my focus, as well as growing stuff inside the house, of course.