THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

maryb

Hi Grey Queen. Quick question- we are going to have to reorganise our plot because one of the four big beds is quite shaded by a tree on the abandoned area that abuts our allotments. It does get sun from the West but the tree is to the South. We were going to move the raspberries onto that plot because they do reasonably well even if they don't get huge amounts of sun but I was wondering about other fruits. Do black currants and redcurrants need a very sunny spot?

GreyQueen

maryb wrote: »

Hi Grey Queen. Quick question- we are going to have to reorganise our plot because one of the four big beds is quite shaded by a tree on the abandoned area that abuts our allotments. It does get sun from the West but the tree is to the South. We were going to move the raspberries onto that plot because they do reasonably well even if they don't get huge amounts of sun but I was wondering about other fruits. Do black currants and redcurrants need a very sunny spot?

I don't actually know the answer, I've been growing blackcurrants for about 9 years and this is the 3rd year of redcurrants, and they're in full sun, as is all my plot.


I believe the currants have fruited much more heavily in the sunnier years and thus suspect them to be sun-lovers, but that's as much as I can offer to the subject, sorry.


Hopefully, someone with more experience of fruits can pop in with the answer.

pineapple

Well every cloud has a silver lining. I remember some news way back about how Morrisons was going to source more local food and I thought 'Well done them'.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/feb/17/morrissons-to-hedge-bets-and-recruit-more-uk-based-suppliers
If our finances dictate that we start eating more local, in season food, it will be no bad thing imo and maybe some suppliers will be able to benefit from Brexit.
https://www.newfoodmagazine.com/article/44169/brexit-value-local-produce/
The Guardian is staunchly anti Brexit and as it draws closer you will only read doom and gloom in those pages - so I always try to counterbalance their articles with more positive sources.

Cappella

Don't know if this will help but my blackcurrants are in shade until about 3pm this time of year and the usually crop really well. Our gooseberries crop well in the same position too.

GreyQueen

I thought of that, as well. It's a rare change which doesn't benefit somebody and many veggies and fruits are perfectly happy in the UK's climate, subject to seasonal restrictions, of course.


My family have been reading the Guardian's sister-paper the Observer since the 1980s (I got them into it) but have been extremely annoyed about the unswerving opinion of that paper about Brexit, and how anything and everything is due to Brexit and how it must be dragged into every news story and comment piece with universal negativity.


Picture this; an editorial meeting in Guardilandia/ Observatia. Various personages are taking direction from the top. The fashion editor is last to come to the attention of the Great Giant Head.


GGH; What is your main story for this weekend's Weekend?


FashEd; We're going to lead with the leopard print skirt, something about wedgies and why the Queen doesn't like them on her grand-daughters-in-law and perhaps a feature on a non-binary model. If we can find one we haven't featured already.


GGH; I can't see any mention about Brexit in that lot?


FashEd (who would have frowned in puzzlement but for an excess of botox at the most recent appointment). Well no, Brexit isn't relevant to those stories.........


GGH What?!? That's heretical talk, you need to wash your mouth out with a premium soap-free product, woman! Brexit is relevant to all stories, at all times, you know our editorial policy here.
Hmm, you can lead with the fact that leopard print fabric is an exclusve product of the finest Italian cloth mills and will be rationed like WW2 silk stockings post-Brexit. And that there will be a tariff imposed on QE2 (gawd bless 'er) and that there will be no more young royals for everyone to coo over. Oh, and the non-binary models will be prevented from getting work visas and thus our fashion pages will be hopelessly unfashionable.


FashEd (somewhat testily) None of that happens to be true. And, even if it was, we have perfectly gorgeous non-binary models in the UK.....


GGH (hooting) TRUTH! What the hell has TRUTH got to do with it, we have an agenda and a populace to influence and I will not have any jumped-up girlie telling me how to run my propaganda............


FashEd smiles flintily and stoops to remove a Louboutin. which she shows to the editior. See this red soled stiletto shoe? Do you know why they make them with red soles? It's so your blood won't show when I stab you to death with it, which I will be obliged to do immediately because you called me WOMAN and GIRLIE in a disrespectful manner. I could sue, but I'd prefer your immediate agonising death. Hi-YAH!!


And she lashes out with some pricey footwear and the GGH dies messily at his desk, with gore splattered all over the apple m ac and the artisanal floorboards.


The remaining editors are filming on their i-phones and fighting amongst themselves for the right to fill the front page.


Shrugging, the deputy ed remarks, like the american newspaperman; If it bleeds, it leads;


BREXIT CLAIMS ANOTHER TRAGIC VICTIM.


FashEd will plead insanity at her trial and be sentenced to a soft jail after a quick perusal of her wardrobe confirms that yes, she is clearly barking mad.


As told to me by a nameless source who shall remain nameless. Unless I'm offered a really large bribe, of course.

jk0

GreyQueen wrote: »

FashEd; We're going to lead with the leopard print skirt, something about wedgies and why the Queen doesn't like them on her grand-daughters-in-law and perhaps a feature on a non-binary model. If we can find one we haven't featured already.

I don't think anyone likes wedgies, do they?

GreyQueen

jk0 wrote: »

I don't think anyone likes wedgies, do they?

They're shoes, you bloke you!

maryb

Love it GQ. And the scary thing is, it's quite believable

Thanks for that Capella, that's really helpful. I think we'll go ahead on that basis. We are going to have to go back to ground zero on the raspberries anyway as it got completely away from us when DH was in hospital and couldn't do anything afterwards

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chirpychick wrote: »

though I’m not sure everyone has 48 tins of beans :rotfl:

Probably not the ideal stock, for use in a nuclear fallout shelter.

Cheapskate

GreyQueen wrote: »

FashEd; We're going to lead with the leopard print skirt, something about wedgies and why the Queen doesn't like them on her grand-daughters-in-law and perhaps a feature on a non-binary model. If we can find one we haven't featured already.

I think jko noticed it was wedgies and not wedges, as I'm sure you'd intended GQ...Monday typo...?!

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