THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

There's something we have in common money. I watch Bealtaine Cottage sometimes. I saw what she started with and what she's done. If only I had the land. I'll hunt the gardening channel to have a little nose. Thanks.

Mar, I think thats half the battle, knowing what suits you - this whole ME/CF/CFS thing is so individual (I suspect its multifactorial, to say the least: genetics, environmental toxins, viral exposure, emotional life. And I have to say, this sounds really good: "I need to cut out all sugars. I need to eat plain simple old-fashioned proper food, regular set mealtimes - and I need a lot of salt." I'm often a fiend for salt as well, and I've had a few episodes where I've ended up on the floor with low blood pressure, so the salt is really necessary.

Own preps: I've been weeding (again, same patch, again) two year old garlic and rampant alpine strawberries and some weeds too for good measure - I want my chive plants there. I'll have to plant them on Thursday now. I'm definitely getting a good few perennial greens in the garden now.

And the stairlift was sold from my mother's house today :j we got less than 5% of what we paid less than 2 years ago, it's only been used half a dozen times, but at least the profit isn't going to the barstewards who sold it to us, who lied and lied about options for second hand stairlifts.

I spent a bit of early-up time musing through property photos and my scaled floorplans. I just realised how future proofed aspects of this house really are, concrete slope (zimmer/wheelchair) up to a side entrance via the conservatory, nice smart hand rails on stairs, very new and nice bathrooms, both with grab handles in the showers, slightly higher loo which I don`t mind, downstairs bedroom next to a bath/shower room. Sometimes things just kind of hit me, I didn`t take it all in on viewing


Now that most of my link a bord beds are out and being stored, the allotment has lost a lot of its structure ie the part that psychologically enabled me to tackle one bed at a time. Any hints on taking various plants out for moving? The small ones like hellibores and echinaceas, I am ok with. I have 5 lovely david austin roses, 4 x 4` tall standard gooseberries with still-fragile stems and 2 blueberries in the ground plus 2 x 2 year planted ben conan blackcurrants. I semi-pruned the roses yesterday and the ben conan for berry picking. I will have to root prune in early winter and plant in as small a pot as I can because of the weight issue. Any better ideas?