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I saved the stones from last years plum harvest and buried them together in a large tub of potting compost. I'm hoping that exposure to the frosts will stratify them, if it works and they start to germinate I'm going to plant them in hedges. I started loads of raspberry cuttings too, gave them away ...

My moggies bring in all the usual wildlife, plus the occasional bat and once a rabbits back leg. Luckily they're not allowed in the main house.

grenfell wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2020 9:26 amOne prep we all need is to be prepared to do without something or other in the future.

I'd really miss reading glasses. I have a very well equipped workshop and plenty of raw materials, but I'd struggle to make lenses.

Bloody bicycle won't be much use to me, with the nearest shop 11 miles away :mrgreen: An electric bike, charged from your own wind generator would be good. Treadmills often contain quite powerful DC motors and can be bought used for peanuts. I recently bought one for £5 for use as a wide belt sande...

Disposable rubber gloves. A couple of quid for a box of 100, they could be a lifesaver in the unlikely event of a new illness appearing.

How about a thread for those more unusual stash items that will be very useful, but difficult to manufacture, if cheap Chinese imports dry up ?

I'll start with "Reading Glasses". Hopefully we'll all get old enough to need them.

I suspect that climate change limiting behaviour (burning less fossil fuels, consuming less) will be forced upon us by taxation changes. This suits the government well. It increases tax revenue to help keep control of an unhappy population and allows government to act against climate change, all wit...

Today I potted up some more toms and peppers, and pinched out suckers in the larger plants. Some toms are already flowering - seems a bit early. Spent a while looking for a fox that has nabbed three of my ducks, but no sign of it since I trimmed my mongrel and scattered the clippings all around the ...

Something that crossed my mind is that after a sudden crash, when people are getting hungry and desperate, it would be sensible to wear some outsized clothes and start acting as if you are prepared to eat dirt. Look as ill and hungry as everyone else, or someone will shout "hoarder" and as...

Arwen Thebard wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 6:07 pm A Mulberry Tree, lovely, really nice fruit. Are you young enough now to sit in its shade in many years time? (They are not fast growing )

I doubt I'll last long enough, but most of what we're doing is for kids / grandkids. I'm happy with that.