What preps are you doing this week? part 2.

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Downloaded hamsphere 3.0 and am playing with it, it will take some time for me to get my head around it, but it sure looks fun and could be useful hypothetically :)
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Getting busy in the garden.Thats pretty much it at the moment!
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I have sown(in the propagator) onion, leeks, tomato, and cucumber. I am currently putting all the equipment together to form some kind of 'kit'. We have a 'Hotel Bag', contents of which I do not need to spell out. My thoughts are a 'Disaster Bag', not Bug Out-that term really irritates me-but a distillation of everything needed to deal with flood/bad weather/civil disturbance etc. while remaining in place. I will come back to that when I have a more definitive list.
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So far this week I've bought a dehydrator, and stocked up more canned goods (can you ever have too many canned potatoes? ;)).

I also plan on buying some fruit trees this week.
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Got a few more LED lights (the ones that you can use as a torch or 'lantern',and either hang or bung on the fridge etc because there's a magnet on the back.They've been in the Primark sale and I reckon I have 9 now -great for powercuts/camping.
Have bought a new apple tree to plant,a blackcurrant,fig,seed potatoes and onion sets,plus some seeds.
Tomorrow will be spent planting and utilising the dug out compost heap in my new raised bed.
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Waterbaby, interesting that you've got a fig ... they seed themselves in the wild round here, from garden ones obviously, so this year I picked up about 8 little figs from the pavement - I put 4 inside the house, to dry, and left 4 in the garden to stratify, and I've just planted them all up, each set in a big pot. At the same time, I've experimented with growing on cuttings from my witchhazel tree - I cut the branches during the dormant period, and they've just flowered, so I've trimmed down a few of the longer twigs and stuck them in yet another pot, to see if I get little trees :)

Oh, and I went shopping yesterday - my version of impulse buying was to buy a kilo of red kidney beans :mrgreen:
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Today my plans were scuppered by the rain, lots of rain. I am in the process of tidying my garden and yard(to make it a little less like a gypsy encampment!).So I decided to have a day in the workshop. I have built, from all the scrap and crap I have lying around, 6 metres of log stores. Currently I stack my logs on planks and then cover it with old planks when it is high enough. So I have made these freestanding jobs to make it all neat and lovely.
All the offcuts have been chopped into sticks for firestarting and stacked into the first of the stores. :D
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My Wife just got in, and I have had a right telling off. She reminded me I am getting over pneumonia!
I get bored. :lol:
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I tried out an oil hurricane lamp that I bought cheap on Amazon. Glad I tried it out - stupid thing leaks and is useless. In fact its more dangerous than useless. Good prep is to try out stuff before you really need it. Good lesson to remember that one!
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PreppingPingu wrote:I tried out an oil hurricane lamp that I bought cheap on Amazon. Glad I tried it out - stupid thing leaks and is useless. In fact its more dangerous than useless. Good prep is to try out stuff before you really need it. Good lesson to remember that one!

add a 9L AFFF foam extinguisher to your preps :twisted:


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Oh and managed to scrounge a 2kw blow heater today brand new never been used no silly ceramic element/ occilator or tip over switch just a basic 1 or 2 KW and a thermostat lightweight too at 1.1 kg all plastic body ready for camping season and a back up to the gas boiler at home :D
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