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by jennyjj01
Wed Apr 12, 2023 4:12 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10
Replies: 1426
Views: 99382

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10

It's been a couple of days doing death related stuff and I'm off work. Spent today shredding Mum-in-Law's big mound of old paperwork* at her house. Of course, waste not want not, and it's now added to the compost heap as brown waste. I anticipated it blowing about so, I popped to my friendly neighbo...
by jennyjj01
Tue Apr 11, 2023 8:14 pm
Forum: New Members Start Here
Topic: New prepper like brand new
Replies: 37
Views: 2909

Re: New prepper like brand new

Hi Mimi, Welcome to the forum. If you are new to prepping, take time to read some of the other welcomes to new members, before you lurch into misguided spending. Generally bugging in is favoured over bugging out, but if you have a camper van that falls into the middle ground of bugging elsewhere. Gi...
by jennyjj01
Tue Apr 11, 2023 5:40 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10
Replies: 1426
Views: 99382

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10

The cloche with attitude..... It's a super-size cold frame for my 'marters. 1.2m high, 1.6m wide and 600mm deep it's almost a greenhouse. :P OUCH! Today's moderately? strong winds converted it to 600mm high!. I.e. Blew it over! I wasn't expecting that. Good job it wasn't made of glass. No damage do...
by jennyjj01
Tue Apr 11, 2023 7:51 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Preppering for what?
Replies: 16
Views: 2343

Re: Preppering for what?

jansman wrote: Tue Apr 11, 2023 7:06 am I’ve approved this to show the moderator team what rubbish posts look like :lol:
Approved what, Jansman? Which post do you think is rubbish?
The original post looked OK, with some thoughtful replies. Or was it Oakheart's '<AOL>Me, too!</AOL>' type post that you approved?
by jennyjj01
Mon Apr 10, 2023 8:49 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10
Replies: 1426
Views: 99382

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10

Trying to think logically here ... yes, re-using isn't about the need for nutrition for the seeds and seedlings ... I think its more like what they might pick up over the course of waiting to be re-used: viruses, bacteria, insect eggs, mould spores etc. The texture of dust might not be great to see...
by jennyjj01
Mon Apr 10, 2023 7:47 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10
Replies: 1426
Views: 99382

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10

Chuck your used seed substrate in the compost bin, surely? Completely agree with not re-using it for seeds, though. I'm not disagreeing. But I don't really understand. I'm still grappling with the distinctions between different types of compost. I know multipurpose pot compost is only good for one ...
by jennyjj01
Mon Apr 10, 2023 6:02 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10
Replies: 1426
Views: 99382

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10

Bin it and start again. Not worth the efforts. I use that much I couldn’t use a microwave! And the price of leccy too? I always buy compost in Autumn when it’s cheaper. OK. Good points. My runner beans I have stuck straight in the soil . A trayful in the greenhouse too. Saves effort. I planned to d...
by jennyjj01
Mon Apr 10, 2023 4:43 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10
Replies: 1426
Views: 99382

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10

Soaked and sowed 20 peas and 8 runner beans into pots. I treated them to some quality seed compost. Into the cold frame, to see how they compare to a few sown in my kitchen window box. A question about seed compost...... It seems to be mostly sand and maybe light in nutrients. Is there any reason no...
by jennyjj01
Mon Apr 10, 2023 8:35 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10
Replies: 1426
Views: 99382

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10

In a months time your plants will need air. Tomatoes can be too hot. Mind you,your little greenhouse there will do the job for all sorts. Lovely. :D Cheers. I hadn't thought it through, and originally planned to dig over and plant into the soil inside it, using it more like a cloche. But now i see ...
by jennyjj01
Sun Apr 09, 2023 8:18 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10
Replies: 1426
Views: 99382

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10

It *is* almost a greenhouse, Jenny, congratulations :) Nice one I'll take the credit/blame for the design and for wombling the parts. I'll even take the credit for helping to dismantling it in the back garden and helping to reassemble it at the plot. But Mr JJ did all the cutting and initial constr...