Preparedness for when

NewShadow

*cough* if we're talking mudyevil fiction... anyone else like Bernard Knight?

I bought 'The Crowner John Mysteries' set for the ex-MIL one year (she loved cadfael) I I got hooked.

ivyleaf

Ooh, I'll have to investigate those! I love CJ Sansom's books set in Tudor times, about Matthew Shardlake, a hunchbacked lawyer who finds himself having to turn detective.

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IVYLEAF you might like RORY CLEMENTS as an author too, his detective is William Shakespears brother John, good read if a little gory at times.

Gogette

I feel the need to de-lurk and thank the contributors to this thread as the advice on here is fantastic. This thread has also made me feel more normal in my prepperish tendencies, (I have my bag-in-the-boot) and that I may not be the only person on the planet with an obsession for torches.

I also love the way different opinions/disagreements are made with very little aggression for what is a public forum.

I feel like a fraud though, I haven't been able to contribute to the thread as all my skills involve the use of Microsoft software and I would be completely useless if the brown stuff did hit the fan and I had to use any "hands-on" skills. Put it this way, if my tortoise was relying on my skills as a gardener to feed her, she would have starved to death by now! The only tortoise edible weeds to grow on my patio are the dandelions, and that's only because they were there first and they want their land back.

Right, back to lurkdom.
Gogette

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Hi GOGETTE you're ahead of most folks pet by finding this thread and having the patience to read it! also you are ahead in being able to recognise the dandelions to pick for Madame la Tortoise as many folks wouldn't and dandelions are edible for humans too both the leaves and the flowers so in a SHTF situation there would be at least one thing you can contribute to the pot!!!

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I've just had a busy afternoon trying to identify a plant that seems to be everywhere in the village in great abundance this year. I've never seen it before and it's taken me a long time to actually find what it is and it is Allium Triquetrum, Three Cornered Garlic/Leek and we have it under the front hedge courtesy of my neighbour who found some, planted it in her garden but under the other side of my hedge last year. It is as invasive as couch grass and is impossible to dig out but could be taken out with Glyphosphate weed killer before the flowers open next year. I've also just found out that every part of this wretched plant is edible. it's a relative of Ramsons/wild garlic and has had a few very bad years but this year is making up for lost time in the south. Does it stay or does it go? as a prepper I feel it would be useful to add flavour as a gardener it's an invasive pest. How would you deal with it???

NewShadow

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

How would you deal with it???

Kill it in the garden and plant it in a pot?

ivyleaf

Have never seen any of that in my garden at all! My bete noir is alkanet, which looks so pretty with its little bright blue flowers and spotted leaves but spread like mad and as far as I know isn't edible.

Thanks for the tip re Rory Clements/John Shakespeare Lyn

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We've got Alkanet all over the village too IVYLEAF and it's a dyers plant, the root produces Madder/rose pink I think. I've always thought that's why you find it near rivers as Dyers Yards were usually situated near waterways for the processes involved. It's a pretty plant though but very easily spread.

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MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

and dandelions are edible for humans too both the leaves and the flowers so in a SHTF situation there would be at least one thing you can contribute to the pot!!!

Actually two things.

You can eat the tortoise as well.