What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12

[jennyjj01]

Just finishing putting my potatoes in the soil is lovely and dry and not donkey work to earth up

Rank gardening amateur that I am, I'm reassured by your post. I popped my spuds in last week and soil was very dry. I was dreading the spuds dying of thirst and did not fancy having to water them. Looking at the forcecast, we should get enough rain this week to get them off to a flying start.

Anyoops. did a bit of hoeing at the lotment. I'm concerned that I won't have enough differentiation between my seedlings and weed seedlings. Bindweed has suddenly appeared en-masse in my berry patch, so started to (re)tackle that. It's flourished almost overnight.

Only ONE marestail spore shoot has appeared this week on the allotment, while I'm seeing a forest of them on and surrounding Mum-in-Laws grave. That gives me hope that I'm getting on top of that marestail 'mare, at least at the allotment..

[Yorkshire Andy]

Just finishing putting my potatoes in the soil is lovely and dry and not donkey work to earth up

Rank gardening amateur that I am, I'm reassured by your post. I popped my spuds in last week and soil was very dry. I was dreading the spuds dying of thirst and did not fancy having to water them. Looking at the forcecast, we should get enough rain this week to get them off to a flying start.

Anyoops. did a bit of hoeing at the lotment. I'm concerned that I won't have enough differentiation between my seedlings and weed seedlings. Bindweed has suddenly appeared en-masse in my berry patch, so started to (re)tackle that. It's flourished almost overnight.

Only ONE marestail spore shoot has appeared this week on the allotment, while I'm seeing a forest of them on and surrounding Mum-in-Laws grave. That gives me hope that I'm getting on top of that marestail 'mare, at least at the allotment..

I've been watching the farmers locally they've just started planting spuds ..

Not many weeds on mine but I've turned it over with the rotorvator 3x in about a month dreading the rain no doubt the weeds will pop up like mad then

[pseudonym]

Just withdrawn the last of the tax free interest off my ISAs and purchasing more Gold CGT free (4 x 1/2 Sovereigns)

Double stiffed the tax man

[Yorkshire Andy]

Ordered another 18x freeze dried meals to with the 18 I got last month

So 33 meals (I sampled one of each spagbol, chillie and chicken tikka ) can't complain they are past bbe but we all know how long freeze dried stuff lasts if stored right all in thick mylar packets and all was passable as food

£1.67 a portion you can't complain

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Some more puritabs too

[pseudonym]

Look Good Andy, might order some myself after the Easter break.

[pseudonym]

Look Good Andy, might order some myself after the Easter break.

FOMO got me ordering two lots this morning...

awaiting 30 wet pouch MREs as well

[Frnc]

Had a delivery of plants yesterday. Hope they don't get nicked. They are all in pots in the front garden. Most will probably stay in pots. Some might get put in the ground eventually. My tree is doing great.

Built a flat pack shoe cupboard and it is useless. Supposed to hold 12 pairs. Holds 4-5 pairs of trainers.

Just done three Time Machine backups. Only takes about 5 minutes for each one. This updates a backup of my whole computer. Of course important stuff is also in iCloud.

Told my gardener I no longer need gardening. Not only did he chop down all the bottom half of my honeysuckle, he mixed plastic and metal with the green waste, so I had to sort five large bags. Got two in the green bin. Got the rest collected with some other junk. Had a load of rubbish collected. Fully licensed. Only charged me £20.

[ForgeCorvus]

Had a delivery of plants yesterday. Hope they don't get nicked. They are all in pots in the front garden. Most will probably stay in pots. Some might get put in the ground eventually. My tree is doing great.

Built a flat pack shoe cupboard and it is useless. Supposed to hold 12 pairs. Holds 4-5 pairs of trainers.

Just done three Time Machine backups. Only takes about 5 minutes for each one. This updates a backup of my whole computer. Of course important stuff is also in iCloud.

Told my gardener I no longer need gardening. Not only did he chop down all the bottom half of my honeysuckle, he mixed plastic and metal with the green waste, so I had to sort five large bags. Got two in the green bin. Got the rest collected with some other junk. Had a load of rubbish collected. Fully licensed. Only charged me £20.

Junkman good, Gardener useless, shoe cupboard meh.... That about right?

We recently got a double decker shoe cupboard from wayfare..... It holds Herselfs shoes

[Yorkshire Andy]

Look Good Andy, might order some myself after the Easter break.

FOMO got me ordering two lots this morning...

awaiting 30 wet pouch MREs as well

In my case with potentially 5 of us at home that's 6 to 7 days worth of main meals ... which is a good increase to the stocks to be fair one was a bit too much for me so I dare say coupled with one 14 year old who doesn't eat much bordering clinical anorexic an 8 year old I dare say 4 pouches would feed 5 of us wouldn't be full to burst but it'd keep body and soul together

[pseudonym]

Snip> days worth of main meals ...

I've mentioned elsewhere I can't stand breakfast oats/porridge/museli whilst camping and my go to meal for brekkie was Shepherds/Cottage pie. Used to get weird looks but boy was I happy.

Snip> In my case with potentially 5 of us at home that's 6 to 7 days worth of main meals ...

Good for Hotel bags as well, just require a spoon and use the kettle provided.

Snip> one was a bit too much for me

I've found that to be the case in other brands too. Must mean I'm working smarter not harder these days

Snip> I dare say 4 pouches would feed 5 of us wouldn't be full to burst but it'd keep body and soul together

And a morale boost If Dad pulled these out of his bag too.