The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

greenbee

GreyQueen said:

Si_Clist said:

SiClist creeps up on forum, looks round cautiously and ...

Ahah!  Looks like something's changed of late, so time to start checking in again.  Are GreyQueen and Jojothetightfisted still around?

    Getting rounder by the minute, must-stop-snacking-or-won't-ever-fit-into-work-attire-again.

Grow more radishes, they make fabulous snacks!

GreyQueen

Don't talk to me about radishes, I am virtually living on them and the chard, the only allotment produce which is ready atm. Should have goosegogs and currants before too much longer.

greenbee

I LOVE radishes ❤️ 💕 💗. Hopefully the first sowing of mine will be ready soon. The rocket is looking promising too. I need to do dome more sowing this weekend - I’d forgotten about the chard!

Nargleblast

I started growing mange touts from seed. I now have lots of vigorous seedlings, and am trying to think where to plant them out. I tell you, they had better produce plenty of the edible bits, all the work I have put into them!

Shropshirelass

Could I ask radish lovers to recommend a nice mild variety. The ones I grew a few years ago were so hot 🔥🔥🔥 I couldn't eat them. Haven't tried again, but chard is doing well. Runner beans now reached my height. Hoping to be buried by the strawberry crop, though the birds have had most of the currants - they have to eat something! It's cooler in this garden than almost everywhere else in the country, but the growing season does last till quite late in the year. 

Suffolksue

My lovely gardener has put a row of white radishes in ,She tells me they are mild ,GreyQueen will know 

Greenglockenspiel

Nothing at all ready to harvest here yet. I bought some strawberry plants earlier in the year but they never flowered, too young maybe. We have a lot of squash, courgettes and pumpkins to plant out though so hopefully will be kept in gourds for quite a while 😊

MingVase

Strawberries aren't ready until July - they might still flower. Mine are just starting now.

elaine241

Greenglockenspiel said:

Nothing at all ready to harvest here yet. I bought some strawberry plants earlier in the year but they never flowered, too young maybe. We have a lot of squash, courgettes and pumpkins to plant out though so hopefully will be kept in gourds for quite a while 😊

Can you eat gourds? I thought they were for ornamental purposes. I have grown radish and they seem to be quite peppery. I have planted the white ones so I can compare. I am cutting plenty of mixed salad leaves from inside the poly tunnel and outside ; so glad not to buy bags of salad from the supermarket. My spinach is about pickable as is some of the bigger leaves of chard. My squash plants are huge and loving life, courgettes, toms, bean and potatoes all healthy. Onions, shallots, kohl rabi ( first year growing), carrots, peas,beetroot, parsnip, cucumber all going well. I haven't space for my brassicas so I will transplant to pots for now and plant out when I do have space. Growing sweetcorn for the first time so I am hoping for lovely sweet cobs. The chilli plants in the poly tunnel are looking very healthy so hopefully I will be self sufficient in these once dried. So glad I had my little flock of hens they have done me proud through this lockdown and kept some of my friends in eggs as well.

Si_Clist

CCW007 said:

I guess I would have to learn if the machine broke and I couldn't replace it but I do love the convenience of the bread maker.

Ahem ... there's "no knead" to learn anything to make no-knead (AKA bung-it) bread.  If I can make it, anybody can - and the only washing-up is a measuring jug, a wooden spoon and a mixing bowl.

Whatever, we too miss noseying round the charity shops.  In fact, apart from that and the library being shut, such lockdown as there still is can carry on ad finitum as far as we're concerned.  BTW, has anybody heard anything about when libraries are supposed to open again?