What preps are you doing this week? Part 3.

[poppypiesdad]

Warmed myself twice.

Once splitting some wood, now burning it.....

[jansman]

Rhubarb chutney made. 10 jars of loveliness. In the morning I am out with the ferrets to put a few rabbits in the freezer. I will make sure I have my catapult and 12 MM lead slugs too and maybe nail a pigeon or two at the same time. In the afternoon I have a load of wine and beer to bottle. It's a tough life.

[hobo]

Online order £50 worth of eazy onions, tinned tomatoes, chick peas and red beans. About time too.

[Decaff]

Ten litres of French onion soup canned and cooling in the kitchen. I know, that's a lot if soup but it's handy as a base for many other dishes and we had some for dinner with crusty bread. Peeling and chopping 3 kilos of onions was stinky and eye watering but the result is very tasty stuff!

[whenfires]

I did my second food shop for my prep store. My aim is to add some basics and essentials once every month so I can get the rotation going. I also spent a couple of hours sorting my gear out as I knew what I had but it was in random boxes so finding anything would require a box-hunt. Everything is now going in black 'really useful' 35L boxes sorted with like items, labelled and documented in a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet even has the expiry and best before dates and calculates how many weeks everything has left (sad but useful! )

It always feels good to have a sort-out.

[MissPrep]

I have an ALLOTMENT!

Thought I'd maybe get one next Sept as I'd got to the top of the waiting list, but just got my offer through today
It's only a small plot, but still it's bigger than my back garden.
Perfect timing - I was just working out how many seeds etc.. to plant this year.


Doing a happy dance - I can finally have the space for fruit trees.

[Brambles]

I have an ALLOTMENT!

Thought I'd maybe get one next Sept as I'd got to the top of the waiting list, but just got my offer through today
It's only a small plot, but still it's bigger than my back garden.
Perfect timing - I was just working out how many seeds etc.. to plant this year.


Doing a happy dance - I can finally have the space for fruit trees.

Congratulations!
I love mine, just a heads-up, Aldi have their fruit trees in at the moment. £3.49 Apples, Pears, Plums and Cherries and apparently some stores have some soft fruit bushes in too.

[Arzosah]

Congratulations Miss Prep

After all the excitement of tax returns, I'm back to cutting back and digging up brambles that took over while I was ill - I'm not going to let them win I may even get a crop from my huge great blackcurrant bush, if its not too late to prune it.

[MissPrep]

Congratulations!
I love mine, just a heads-up, Aldi have their fruit trees in at the moment. £3.49 Apples, Pears, Plums and Cherries and apparently some stores have some soft fruit bushes in too.

Thanks for that - I don't live near an Aldi so never know what offers they have on.
I've got some fruit bushes from Lidl before as there is one pretty close & had very good results.

Tomorrow I'm going to fix up my greenhouse - lost a few panes of glass with the stormy weather on Monday night, but the Glass guy for some reason remembered me from when I needed a pane of glass a year or so back, so very kindly dropped my replacements round on his way home from work this evening.
As most of the glass is 610 x 610 panes & the rest are smaller, I'm thinking I should get a couple of spares to keep in the shed.
I have the tools to cut glass already & I'm sure it won't be the last time I need to replace a pane.
I seem to have stocked up on everything else, don't see why I never thought of greenhouse glass before!

The allotment people are posting me my key, so I should have it by the end of the week; then we're off to take some pictures & measure it up so I can come up with a plan.

I was planning to sacrifice half the space on my patio for bags of potatoes this year, so I ordered loads of seed potatoes which haven't arrived yet, but most of those can go to the allotment now so the timing has been fantastic.

I'm still planning on growing at home too.

[Captain Darling]

I looked for a volunteer ranger position with National Trust this week and ended up applying for a new career choice and, if successful means me having to leave the army.

Hope they can wait a year :-S...