Good idea; I've been thinking of keeping potted plants of food as well. Better than nothing and it'll add a bit of colour to the house as décor until they start providing.Arzosah wrote:Welcome! And good for you! Strikes me, that since you have a garden, even though it isn't enough for real self sufficiency (and not many of us have that here in the UK, certainly not me!), you have enough land to practise on - if you can grow 3 courgette plants, you can grow 30 (as long as you've got the water, oops). Anyway, good luck, see you on the boards.
Very clever, very sly. I like it!TwoDo wrote:One idea I came up with was to use the far side of canals and plant them with edible perennial plants that look like weeds. Tow paths usually run along one side of the canal and the other side, at least at the margins of urban areas, are usually scrubby brush and disused land, difficult for casual access and largely ignored by the passerby. Something like jerusalem artichoke tubers planted there would grow (and expand) year after year. Jerusalem artichokes don't look like much - just tall weeds and their roots would form a pre-positioned food supply in times of need. 99 out of 100 people that saw them would think nothing of it. They are exceptionally tough perennials too - so even if British Waterways came by and cut them down they would quickly grow back.
Other ideas were to plant a supply of berry bushes in odd out-of-the-way places where they will not be noticed. For example, Aronia berry bushes look just like the normal anonymous inedible decorative round black/blue coloured berry bushes that grow all over the place - yet are stuffed with vitamin C. Just the sort of thing a vitamin poor post SHTF diet might need. They tend to be expensive though so perhaps purchasing one for the back garden and propagating more with cuttings or air-layering might be a good idea.
Is there a topic on this? It'd be very useful. Foraging always interested me but I've never done it, yet. I suppose I should start.
Thank you! (And nice name btw!) That was actually a potential plan of mine when I was younger; I always used to look at my parents' house when I was younger and think of plans I could use in the case of a zombie invasion. I was a weird kid, parents thought I was a bit morbid because I've always been into post-apocalypse, zombies, survivalism a world without electricity, and so on.Dr_zoidberg wrote:Welcome to the boards.
I'm also living in the west Midlands, I live in a built up area with many gangs. Although my garden isn't that small, i don't really have the time to turn my garden into a vegetable patch due to work commitments. Although i do have fairly green fingers. I plan to have the necessary supplies to grow one should the need arise. You should also take into consideration that there will be a fairly large die off and/or exodus when the worst happens. You may very well find that most of your neighbours aren't around any more and you can borrow their gardens.
Your location sounds exactly the same as mine: I live in a built up area with gangs around, as well. I live nearby to some hostels, as well. There's like, 3 in about a 1 mile radius or something, that I know about.
I only just learnt about the air rifles yesterday. The crossbow, though? Awesome information. I might go and get them.While it is more difficult to acquire knives or guns here than across the pond. You can own an air rifle or air pistol below a certain power without any of the fuss of firearms certificates. As long as you take steps to keep under 18's from gaining access to them (a gun safe). Useful for hunting small game, controlling vermin. There's nothing wrong with having a collection of sharp and shiny knives as long as you don't walk around with them. You can also own a crossbow without any certificates or anything. Useful for certain hypothetical situations.
I've also been wondering about bug-out bags. Can't keep a swiss army knife in my car (when I get one). I have a bug-out bag already but it's in the house: silver tape, a few bits of food, sleeping bag, children's clothes and teddies in an air-tight space bag, binoculars. I couldn't keep that in the car; the police would think I was planning on abducting someone.
