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by diamond lil
Sun Apr 28, 2024 8:34 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Replies: 298
Views: 18947

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11

Bought some seed tatties :mrgreen: Charlotte because I like them.
by diamond lil
Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:23 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Replies: 298
Views: 18947

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11

Nowt to do with prepping as such, but I had a pal who was a stewardess on long haul flights from the Gulf, and she developed one on a flight from Bahrain.. says she will never, ever, forget it :evil: :evil:
by diamond lil
Sat Apr 27, 2024 8:38 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Replies: 298
Views: 18947

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11

Andy I've had two dry sockets - you never forget that pain :shock: JM funny, we agree re solid fuel. Loved having coal for 40 years but don't miss it now at all. I'm pondering planting tatties. Only prob is that they would be on the shared path we blocked off due to nosy neighbour with screening - ...
by diamond lil
Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:27 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Replies: 298
Views: 18947

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11

Very cold late Spring, knocking everything back and the lambing here has been a disaster. I'm not sure how best to prep because it looks like foodwise everything that comes from a farm is going to go up.Found a wee corner of ground and am planting kale,spring onions, lettuce and radishes.But there i...
by diamond lil
Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:00 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Replies: 298
Views: 18947

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11

What are you using these things for? Itsy and pseud.
by diamond lil
Wed Apr 10, 2024 1:43 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Replies: 298
Views: 18947

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11

frnc plant raised beds quite densely then keep them covered until the plants fill all the space. If cats can't see the compost then they don't tend to waste their time. That's what I have found anyway.
by diamond lil
Mon Apr 08, 2024 8:24 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Kale
Replies: 5
Views: 160

Re: Kale

Thanks everybody. I need a compact quiet well-behaved kale. :mrgreen: Just like me. :twisted: :twisted:
Only I'm notgreen and haven't got snails on me.
that I know about, anyway.
by diamond lil
Sun Apr 07, 2024 7:43 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Kale
Replies: 5
Views: 160

Kale

Have saved a corner of the microscopic back garden for growing veg. And what I think would be most use to us is Kale. In Scotland, kale is big :mrgreen: - my granny called her entire back garden the kailyaird, although I'm sure there would've been loads of veg init, not just kale. So I'm looking for...
by diamond lil
Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:08 pm
Forum: Homes and Retreats
Topic: National grid (electric) look to suspend night time call outs to domestic power cuts
Replies: 27
Views: 798

Re: National grid (electric) look to suspend night time call outs to domestic power cuts

Yep agree totally. We're going backwards going forward :mrgreen: Hell, I read books about the wild west and the outback in Australia and people were so skilful at making do and coping. I think the younger ones might have lost those skills but a freezing cold winter or hot dry summer will soon sort t...
by diamond lil
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:20 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Replies: 298
Views: 18947

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11

I don't buy anything that needs a battery unless it's rechargeable. Total waste of time and money.