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Spent a fair few hours at the allotment. Coaxed MrJJ to make some slightly raised beds. Dug over and then planted 100 Onion sets and some more garlic. Plot flew through inspection this month and is starting to look well tended and cultivated. Hope to be growing lots of staple foods by spring. Start...

Arzosah, tobacco is actually easy to grow, there’s a few online places in the UK that sell a big variety of seeds, mines still growing in the now cooler, wet Cumbrian hills.

Dare I ask what you plan to grow in your hydro setup? 😂😂. Yes, purple sprouting broccoli and in the other have three smaller baskets with Pak Choi, will also corry a kratky method outside to increase yield, we really have been battered by the gastropods this year then flipping caterpillars 🐛. 🤬🤬 Ev...

Been a while since I’ve visited, due to most of my garden grown Veg being attacked by slugs and snails I’m starting a go at hydroponics, got my two DWC buckets set up and have done a trial run with just water but no nutrients etc, have got the tent, grow light and extraction. Been busy with work so ...

I'm really hoping that the government pulls their fingers out over the whole balcony solar systems which are legal all over Europe apparently IKEA is piling on the pressure as they want to sell the systems in the UK What are these balcony solar systems? Never heard of them before. Does anyone have ...

I bought a vitrifrigo 12v compressor fridge when I built my camper, not cheap at all, £600 a few years back but wow, it was good, cold, quiet and took very little power. I’d recommend but yes, not cheap.

Just ordered the final battery expansion pack for my Jackery. 12 kwatts in total. (pics when it arrives) And here we are: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54183098241_77cdd9e3da_c.jpg 12 Kilowatts of home backup and 1.2 Kw of portable power for travel and camping That’s a lot of Jackery. 😂 You p...

As others have said these freeze dried foods have their place, I’m thinking of getting some of the MREs that are about 800 calories each to chuck in my edc rucksack and back of the car for emergencies, having to abandon my car with the snow in Ambleside and Windermere last weekend showed me how fast...

Big shop coming up, trying to pursuade the SO to get a big sack of spuds 🥔 and big sack of flour, I’ve heard there’s been some bad crops this season, not sure if spuds or flour is part of that but defo heard olive 🫒 oil could be going up a fair bit in price with the bad harvest also finally got my s...

Nice .... I better not Mrs A discovered this stashed in a cupboard and we'll wasn't overly impressed with "another bloody lantern!" Screenshot_20231018-215011.png But it was down to £8 in B&M few I got already were £12 noticed this one has a £15 price tag on it so guessing they are go...