THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

mardatha

I'm sick to the back teeth with the Brexit arguing, in this forum and outside of it. We're not about politics in here , we're about prepping and being ready to cope with anything. Yet we canny even cope with the run-up and the theory of this!

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I've got a blackberry mountain in the fridge, no shortages of shiny black berries here and I've not been brave enough to go up the garden to see how many more of the little blighters there are today! and I'm not going to and you can't make me!!! I think I'm going to have to cadge some jars (sadly mine are all in the bottle bank) and make some jam.....dash, blow, bother, darn it ************* wouldn't you think with all the heat and the lack of rain that they'd have the decency to rein in their enthusiasm BUT NO!!!!! anyone want some blackberries?

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pineapple wrote: »

Does anyone have any experience with growing broad beans?

First thought that comes to mind is, you would probably need a very wide garden.

maryb

Thanks Fuddle. We're off on holiday in just over a week now that DH has reached the three months since his operation and can travel. So I'll try and get them in before we go

You know how they say if you fail to plan, you plan to fail? well I suspect my planning will fail if the pigeons get my brassicas ( I will net them) but it was only a few seeds and a bit of potting compost

GreyQueen

I've been prepping for the coming potato harvest, scheduled for Sunday. Have been pulling the weeds and dead tater tops and the carpet of dead and dying horsetails off the baulks.


I have never seen horsetails die on the surface like that, it's just possible that there are some upsides to the incredible dry weather, after all.:rotfl:This weeding is to stop the mess fouling the forks when Dad and I dig everything up. I have also brought a few of the tatties up by doing this, some marbles and some highly respectable sizes. No sign of scab this year thus far, they're as smooth as a baby's bottom.



I don't do most media, don't watch telly, listen to radio, read brexity stories in the newspapers or discuss it IRL. Too emotional a subject to get caught up in, nothing productive is achieved and mucho aggravation is given and recieved by all involved. It's a pig's breakfast fer sure but we'll just have to get on with it.


I'm going to steadily increase my stocks (the underbed food mountain has mostly been consumed already) and call it Investing In Food Futures, on the grounds that the items will almost certainly cost more in the future. Heck, my tinned tatties were 15p a can, the same product in all stores is 35p a can now, how about that for inflation?!:rotfl:


I'm already considering next year's allotments (I took on another half-sized plot 18 weeks ago) and have decided I need to have a book or file of garden plans, as it's getting a bit complicated remembering what crop went where (for rotation purposes) and also which parts of the plot(s) got grained, coffee'd and manured.

GreyQueen

Just a little thought before Bedtime (I'm going away for the next 16 hours or so into IRL where dish-washing, novel-reading, beddy-byes and then another workday await):


https://www.raptitude.com/2016/12/five-things-you-notice-when-you-quit-the-news/


Raptitude is a most excellent blog, I would highly commend it to 8 out of 10 thoughtful people. G'night, all. x

Karmacat

mardatha wrote: »

I'm sick to the back teeth with the Brexit arguing, in this forum and outside of it. We're not about politics in here , we're about prepping and being ready to cope with anything. Yet we canny even cope with the run-up and the theory of this!

Yep. Exactly.

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I've got a blackberry mountain in the fridge, no shortages of shiny black berries here and I've not been brave enough to go up the garden to see how many more of the little blighters there are today! and I'm not going to and you can't make me!!!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

GreyQueen wrote: »

I have never seen horsetails die on the surface like that, it's just possible that there are some upsides to the incredible dry weather, after all.:rotfl:This weeding is to stop the mess fouling the forks when Dad and I dig everything up.

It's really something, isn't it. But our rain has gone on for 2.5 days now, from Friday evening to this morning, so weeds will get going again round here

I don't do most media, don't watch telly, listen to radio, read brexity stories in the newspapers or discuss it IRL. Too emotional a subject to get caught up in, nothing productive is achieved and mucho aggravation is given and recieved by all involved. It's a pig's breakfast fer sure but we'll just have to get on with it.

This. This, so much. If I did embroidery, I'd be embroidering that on a cushion

I'm going to steadily increase my stocks (the underbed food mountain has mostly been consumed already) and call it Investing In Food Futures, on the grounds that the items will almost certainly cost more in the future. Heck, my tinned tatties were 15p a can, the same product in all stores is 35p a can now, how about that for inflation?!:rotfl:

Wow! That really does say it all. I know when I first started buying tinned tatties they were 18p, and they shot up *really* quickly.

Good luck with the notebook/spreadsheet, GQ, to keep track of the crops and treatments, that sounds sensible.


I've been out weeding. My new chives have survived, though I'm going to have to dig up one of the (many) self seeded alchemillas to get them to stay that way, it's too close.

And now the rain's come, I need to start digging up a few bramble roots - couldn't do it when the ground was so hard, but it should be possible tomorrow.

ancientofdays

I am thinking of starting a new thread entitled Prepping for Having an Argument about Brexit and then those that want to squabble can do that in it and I will read something different.

ivyleaf

GreyQueen wrote: »

:question: I actually read pineapple's comments as meaning that the Guardian comments were of the same stripe as the majority of the Guardian editorial, i.e about as pro (meaning anti) Brexit as each other.


But I may have got a hold of the wrong end of the stick, perhaps pineapple might drop in to clarify at some point if she feels like it.

That was how I interpreted what pineapple said as well

ivyleaf

ancientofDays Just read your post. Excellent idea :T