The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

DigForVictory

I have mentioned I was worried about (& am now grieving for) my apple tree. I think it just got too dry. Anyway, shopping for another apple tree, I almost fell of the bench. £30 for a half standard (I'm not tall & apple trees & ladders only work if you have spent years pruning carefully Every Year) bareroot?! It's a respected nursery & the other tree's doing OK but frankly yikes.

Has anyone else bought their fruit trees online & where from if so please?

thriftwizard

Haven't bought apples specifically from them, but these guys have come up trumps with a couple of other special offers for our garden.

Suffolksue

Aldi sometimes have fruit trees ,haven't had them but their currant and gooseberry bushes are prolific.

DigForVictory

Many thanks for the tree nursery info.

Onto an even more disconcerting thing - apparently the cod fish stocks in the sea are down. For all for whom a bit of pink or brown fish is fine, this may not be a big deal but for those who do like their cod, life could get more difficult. Ordinarily I hesitate to push "we're running out of X" headlines as there's enough alarm & despondency in the world but certain family members may need reassuring that even if there isn't a fish supper on offer the love is still there.

Nargleblast

There's always pollock or coley if you can't get cod. Coley looks greyish but turns white when cooked.

DigForVictory

We ate coley at uni, but I haven't seen it since. I must go a-looking, as it was good feeding & even I managed not to ruin it! (picky menfolk have not improved my cooking skills - there are some things they eat & several more they won't! Still, nothing serious hunger won't overcome.

Brambling

DigForVictory wrote: »

We ate coley at uni, but I haven't seen it since. I must go a-looking, as it was good feeding & even I managed not to ruin it! (picky menfolk have not improved my cooking skills - there are some things they eat & several more they won't! Still, nothing serious hunger won't overcome.

When I was a Saturday girl [STRIKE]late 70s [/STRIKE]early 80s old ladies would come in and buy coley and say it was for the cat :cool: I know they have tried to rebrand it probably for that reason, add it to fish pie and they think it's cod. As Nargleblast pointed out it looks better cooked than raw. Pollock tends to be used when it's called 'white fish' ie white fish fingers

DigForVictory

Assorted cuttings chat elsewhere raised the interesting suggestion that roses can propagate from cuttings easily so long as the cut end is tucked in a potato while it roots.
No idea how effective they is is or whether it would work for other plants but struck me as an interesting idea & less effortful than hormone powder etc.
(I’m now waiting for someone to squalk about the scarcity & cost of potatoes on that forum!)

DigForVictory

It's been discussed elsewhere that a nuclear bunker should have a radio. What I am delighted to (at last) find out is that it can still be an FM one & the plans to migrate everything off FM onto DAB have been shelved.
For all sorts of reasons (but all shared by Libby Purves here back in 2018, not always the first with the latest, me!) the wiser heads have realised that In The Event, DAB may not work whereas FM coverage is far more reliable.

Phew!

MingVase

Where is the best place please everybody, for dried milk and dried veg?