The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

VJsmum

You indeed...  People may regret this!!! 🤪

Just done my Aldi click and collect order - goodness but even with the 4.99 fee, it's so much cheaper than tosspots.  It's also much closer for us - about 12 miles closer - so saves on petrol too.

thriftwizard

Aha... 🍺 so we can use our own!🥂🍻🍸🍹🍰 It took me an age to find out how to do accents, which was awkward as DS1's lovely lady is Irish and has more accents in her name than some languages. Now I can use the emojis too there'll be no stopping me...🌺🌛🌈🥕🥦!

jk0

Just had a massive catch up. Sorry to be so tardy.

Just wanted to mention that I never take any notice of dates on veggies. As long as they aren't rotting, what's the harm?

Onebrokelady

jk0 said:

Just had a massive catch up. Sorry to be so tardy.

Just wanted to mention that I never take any notice of dates on veggies. As long as they aren't rotting, what's the harm?

I always say they don't have a date on them if you grow them yourself so why worry 🤷‍♀️

pollyanna_26

RAS said:

Another situation for which it's difficult to prep. Not one most of us would expect to face, although not too different in many ways to the threatened dam burst in 2019? Admit I do have a grab bag with essentials by the door and most documents in a single small folder but.....

Exeter WW2 bomb: People 'unlikely' to go home on Sunday - BBC News

We had a much smaller controlled explosion a few miles down the coast a few days ago. Not on the scale of Exeter. It's quite common here but only a few UXBs over the decades ditched by German pitots heading home during the Liverpool blitz and dropppng their load over the beaches here. Nowadays it's generally Grenades and similar things.

I think we should make Greenbee our Prepper of the week. I never realised others were missing the Emoji's too and needing Kale that looks like a Lettuce is a form of Prep.

I've been sorting through the seeds today.It's lovely how the mornings are getting lighter however the temperatures have taken a dive here.

As a Moon gazer the Snow Moon has been lovely. It stayed with us for three nights although it was meant to be two. It lit the sky and was a welcome reminder that even in dark times the moons and stars still shine down on us as they have through good and bad days . The world turns, the seasons change and life goes on.

pollyx

Nargleblast

Good morning Preppers, 1st of March and the meteorological first day of Spring. There are still chilly nights ahead with frosts, so think of that when making plans. Says the person who bought a load of Spring flowering plants yesterday and planted them up in the garden, some in pots, some in the ground. Oh well, they'll either live or die, and as the garden centre displayed them outside, they must be reasonably hardy. I am determined to have lots of pretty things in the garden this year. Food crops, like peppers, salad veg and tomatoes, don't seem to do well outside here in my bit of North England, so I am having a go this year at growing them indoors on windowsills.

MingVase

Nargle I always had a great crop of tomatoes on a 6ft south-facing windowsill. And cucumbers!

pollyanna_26

You're probably further north than me Nargle. It's sunny now but a heavy frost last night.so quite cold. I'm quite tough with some plants and they seem to have adapted . When I first moved here i started a shelter belt of evergreen trees and shrubs which does provide protection from the winds coming off the Irish Sea. I do use fleece for younger or more delicate plants which makes a difference while they establish and can be used as and when needed.

I switched to the smaller tomatoes in large pots a few years ago . They do well and don't need the attention the taller types do.

pollyx

Wraithlady

I grew tomatoes last year - admittedly planted the seeds far too late, but they were still trying to fruit in November!

Hollyberry

RAS said:

Another situation for which it's difficult to prep. Not one most of us would expect to face, although not too different in many ways to the threatened dam burst in 2019? Admit I do have a grab bag with essentials by the door and most documents in a single small folder but.....

Exeter WW2 bomb: People 'unlikely' to go home on Sunday - BBC News

Eek!  That's not far from where I used to live.  It's certainly made me think about where I keep my grab bag (study), essential docs (dining room cupboard) and anything else we might want to take in those circumstances.