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Ooh, my specialist topic! Do you have space for containers e.g. large planters? You can grow potatoes, tomatoes, peas, french beans, peppers, chard, courgettes and squash easily in containers and many seed companies will sell plants (that is, not seeds but seedlings ready to plant out) that are smal...

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Mines 3 years to and she would be too big for the above bouncer. i Understand amber and route 1 is to bug in at home or at a secondary location but i was thinking if choices are to a point where that is the only option. What are you bugging out from? And where are you bugging out to? If you are bug...

Real Seeds do very good heirloom and heritage varieties and they give full seed-saving instructions for all they sell. Well worth having a look at their catalogue. To be honest I can't imagine getting black maize or purple carrots will disguise your crops. They will still look like cultivated crops ...

@winkle - there isn't a "Universal" Red Cross. There is the International Committee of the Red Cross which is a private Swiss charity affiliated to the Red Cross movement but separate from the International Federation of Red Cross/Crescent/Crystal Societies. It is confusing. The easiest wa...

I can't get started until mid May here but I've got it all planned out. Less potatoes this year for a start. Kale is hellish stuff but very handy for soup and it's one of the few things that lasts well through winter here. Might try chard for soups & stews as well. Going to do syboes instead of...

Back on topic, I was having a vaguely prep-related conversation with the next-door-but-one neighbour, a big lad, body-building motorcyclist with a young daughter. I wanted to sound him out slightly to see what his thinking was. Well, I found out "If it all does go pear-shaped mate, first thing ...

Just popped upstairs to pull out Weygers' book "The Making of Tools". Although his focus is on making small woodworking and metalworking tools, he goes into a bit of detail on selecting materials, treating them etc. He recommends using leaf springs as raw material, and also has useful info...

It's an interesting discussion, and for me this is at the heart of our prepping dilemma. Sometimes I feel that my little stores are only to make me feel slightly better in the face of massive planet-wide changes and influences that care not one bit about me and can sweep me aside in an instant. I lo...

I haven't got either Trangia or Kelly at the moment, but I've made the decision to get the medium (Scout) Kelly soon. It looks like cooking on the top with the pot stand might be a little wobbly, so I'm guessing that's why they've come up with this Hobo attachment. I'm getting a bit tired of the po...