The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

euronorris

I just squeeze a blob into left hand. Push the top closed with my right hand and shove in pocket. Then use the blob in left hand to sanitize both.

Alternative to pocket, is to have on a lanyard.

I think the demand has reduced a bit. Boots had tonnes by the tills when I went to get my hayfever meds the other day. I didn't get any, as we still have plenty from before and with barely leaving the house, the need to use them was much less than I had anticipated. I expect that will change as things start to open up again, and people are going back to work. So if you still need some, or you'll be on public transport soon, then now is the time to stock up i think.

Shropshirelass

Thanks for info about chard. My plant came from a present I received, a block the size of a bar of chocolate which when planted should produce 6 different vegetables. Chard, tomatoes and green peppers grew, and the chard survived the winter.

Radishes - I ordered from 2 places. Today I received the second order, from France, a packet of white radish seeds (1 gm weighed not counted!), with an instruction sheet and best wishes. I'll be looking to order from them again.

The growing season here is very late, everything is still in the conservatory (my little greenhouse blew down), except the runner beans, which have been battered in recent high winds.

maryb

I've got pretty good about not touching my face - or at least my eyes, nose and mouth.  Fortunately I'm not a hay fever sufferer and the cold weather which always gives me a runny nose has gone for now (though looking outside you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise)  So I just wash my hands the second I get in, which I have always done since I realised that's how most cold and flu germs spread.  I did have some hand sanitiser right at the start, which was in the walking backpacks for cleaning hands before having packed lunches.  Constant use made me allergic to it.  Ditto liquid handwash  which made my skin so dry it cracked open.  So plain soap and water it is.  And, after all, it was enough when combined with decent drains to drastically reduce the incidence of all the great waves of infectious diseases which killed so many pre 20th century

thriftwizard

"Butternut squash........... hmm. Everytime I've seen these for sale, they've been F1 hybrids. I've got a dozen growing from seeds saved from a grocery BNS. Due to the hybridisation issue, I am expecting something not true-to-type. If it's true enough to be palatable, I have the rest of the saved seeds in a tupperware in the fridge. One BNS produces about 100+ seeds, it can only be the hybridisation issue causing the ridiculous expense."

Last year & the year before, we grew some things very much like butternut squash from saved seed. They came out large & delicious, butternut-shaped & mostly butternut-coloured, but with a clear & persistent green stripe that was still visible when we ate the last one a few weeks ago. This year I'm trying "something like" Turk's Turban - we had a huge one that we mistook for a pumpkin when it was growing & ate that recently too; it was lovely. I dried the seeds just enough to wipe the papery coating off, then planted them & they all popped up & are growing voraciously, some amongst my sweetcorn ("Honey Bantam") & some down by the pumpkins in the cold frame, which are already flowering like mad. So I'll probably end up with something a little less turban-like, but as long as it tastes good I'm happy!

Littlemoney, I'd just smear my sanitised hands down the bottle... but I'm very lazy!

missychrissy

Hi everyone. I’ve been lurking on here for a while and hope to join in. I joined MSE in about 2009 but have been missing for 2 or 3 years. Life took over and babysitting grandchildren so their parents could work took over. I’m loving lockdown. It has given me the opportunity to renegage with several things.

 I’m  sorry to hear there has been some bad feeling created by some on the thread. I remember a ceridwen back in my early days here. If I remember rightly she had a ‘dry’ wit but joined in amicably. I think she said she lived in a house of multiple occupancy. I will gladly stand corrected.I have always found the forums full of friendship, wit and wisdom. I have learned a lot again eg Splosh. I had no idea these companies existed. Whilst I buy eco balls for washing, I didn’t know there were companies that supply products in reusable, returnable containers. I am well stocked at the moment but will be changing some of my shopping habits in the future. Please, keep up the good work.

Greenglockenspiel

Thanks ivyleaf and Suffolksue, it was me after washing up gloves. I sent OH to Waitrose and he came back with marigold branded gardening gloves, so we’ll see if they work for the job and if not we’ll check in Aldi and M&S. The former being OH’s preferred supermarket anyway, but not in walking distance, so he can go on his bike. I had been thinking about walking into town for M&S anyway as I’ve heard since the clothes part of the shop is closed and so is most of the town centre, they’ve not had many customers so ys bargains abound.

dreaming

euronorris said

Sorry, just catching up on thread. Glad pollyanna has decided to stay. As for the other poster, with multiple usernames, I'm pretty certain their intent is to upset and disrupt, so I've stopped responding.

I actually disagree that MoneySeeker1 (and all her other names) seeks to upset and disrupt. I think she genuinely does have a very different way of thinking and living to what many might consider to be"the norm". . I do know of her past as I have been mooching round these threads for several years now and whilst I don't agree with much of what she posts and often take the view that she sounds very self-centred and grandiose (my opinion only), I think she is entitled to those opinions and to post them on here if she wishes. I know she has had her posting privileges revoked in the past due to causing offence but I still don't think she necessarily does it deliberately. I have offended people in the past with my passionately held opinions on a variety of topics - not online as I tend to only go in for that sort of discussion in person as I am aware of how easily a post can be misconstrued with no facial expression or tone of voice to soften it - but sometimes the offence has been taken when none was meant. I have to be honest and say that in her recent posts I have not seen anything particularly more offensive than any other posters whose views I disagree with but I'm not easily offended I'll admit - life's too short. As has been said many times, if you don't like what she sasy then use the ignore button but please don't chip away at the right of free speech.

GreyQueen

Thrifty, whereabouts on the squash was the green stripe? I mean, on the rind or in the flesh? I shall be very interested to see what mine turn into. Thye are presently acclimatising themselves to the great outdoors under a strip of scaffolding netting, which I have hung off the cold frame and pegged down at one end, forming a lean-to. I grew them in the LR and feel quite fond. Hopefully, they will produce edibles, but I shall be stuffing them into some mostly untended areas and letting them get on with it.

MingVase (aka Mad Arthur, Mardywotsit and Madatha) the most useful thing by far on the lotties are the spuds. Followed by the onions. Prosaic, but true. Lots of bang for one's buck and minimal efforts in cultivation. Should I ever need horsetail and bindweed, I grow copious amounts of those, too.

euronorris

dreaming said:

euronorris said

Sorry, just catching up on thread. Glad pollyanna has decided to stay. As for the other poster, with multiple usernames, I'm pretty certain their intent is to upset and disrupt, so I've stopped responding.

As has been said many times, if you don't like what she sasy then use the ignore button but please don't chip away at the right of free speech.

We'll have to agree to disagree about the poster, but I certainly haven't stopped them from posting, reported them or chipped away at their free speech. Rather than use the ignore button, I simply don't respond, which has the same end result. They are free to continue posting.

pineapple

I just wish we would give a certain topic a rest now. Just as I think we're done with it, up it comes again like one of the undead in a horror movie