What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10

[Kiwififer]

I started organising my new shed.

I’ve never had a new shed, I feel after getting it sorted that I need to go wrestle a bear or something.

[Yorkshire Andy]

I started organising my new shed.

I’ve never had a new shed, I feel after getting it sorted that I need to go wrestle a bear or something.

Nice now show us a picture in 4 months time of it overflowing with crap


Once summer gets hot douse it with this:

https://www.diy.com/departments/ronseal ... lsrc=aw.ds

Will need 3 costs ideally after a hot spell

If you can get some guttering on it on both sides to take water away rather than having it run down each side ... Meaning a drier shed and it'll last a lot longer and if you put a little rain barrel there you've got some grey water to water the garden / flush the loo if you loose water


Couple of soffit vents at high level (in the apex) and a couple lower down at the opposite side will allow some air movement reducing the risk of mould / damp ... Hot air rises pulling in air from low down

[Kiwififer]

The fun prevention officer has ‘suggested’ I get some of my golf stuff out of the kitchen cupboard.

I’m actually happy to do it provided I can bring my home made wine demijohns down from the attic…

[Yorkshire Andy]

The fun prevention officer has ‘suggested’ I get some of my golf stuff out of the kitchen cupboard.

I’m actually happy to do it provided I can bring my home made wine demijohns down from the attic…

Going back when I was a kid my dad made sure the kitchen fitters left enough space on top of the top cupboards so he could fit demijohns+ airlocks on top

[Kiwififer]

Sensible man Andy.

[Medusa]

Spent most of today tidying up the garden, prepping the raised beds and planting some peppers and tomatoes, I am late getting started this year. The rhubarb is doing amazingly well and the raspberries and fruit bushes are all sprouting as are the apple and plum trees. It has been a lovely day here with spring sunshine but now I have lit the log burner as it's a tad chilly. Also bought a fire blanket from Aldi for £6.99, kitemarked.

[ForgeCorvus]

Been ill and then the computer caught it
Just trying to read everything you lot have been posting..... This thread was on page 32 last time I was here.

Glad to know you're all still troshing on

[jansman]

Been ill and then the computer caught it
Just trying to read everything you lot have been posting..... This thread was on page 32 last time I was here.

Glad to know you're all still troshing on

Hope you are feeling better.

[jansman]

This week I have some wiring to do in home. Nice gentle work,but necessary.One of my mates has dropped firewood into the front garden.I’ll saw it by hand because it’s fair exercise for me right now. Got the greenhouse to attend. Tomatoes and peppers are doing well! Back in the old(er) days,my dad always sowed beans in the greenhouse on St.George Day. I do that anytime in April now. I’ll bung Squash in about then too.
Another prep recently has been financial issues. Most important under my circumstances. This week I shall check through my precious metals. Since I started being ill about a year ago,I have lost track of what I have acquired. I checked my silver 1 Troy ounce coins,and they are now worth 25% more. That will do!

[jennyjj01]

This has been a bad week with focus on hospital visits and time in A&E. Mr JJ has been particularly diverted, so I've given him a break from pallet carpentry duty and in a spare few hours, I wielded a hammer and screwdriver myself. Comical. I'm not a natural
After a few false starts and swear words, I've bodged 3 big* pallets together to make our 3 sided compost heap enclosure. It's a bit wonky, but I discovered that by removing just a few strips of wood, the corners made themselves by slotting them together and banging in some screws and nails. I haven't decided whether to fill in the fourth side.
I've been bringing home all the green waste from a cafe for a few weeks, and tonight, I Christened the new composter by emptying 20 big carrier bags of cafe waste into it: A deep and colourful layer of kitchen waste and coffee grounds. Lots of egg shells and peelings. Some of the full bags showed signs of visits by critters (rats?). I do hope my new heap doesn't upset the locals with pong and rat infestation.

*It's pretty big. About a 4 foot cube. I'm blagging cafe waste at a great rate of about 10 carrier bags per week. I reckon I can already fill it to about 6 inches deep. I'm also blagging lots of cardboard, wood chippings, manure and grass cuttings, too. This will be the best heap on the site. I wonder if there are prizes

I wouldn’t worry about ‘pallet composting bins’. ...No pratting about,work had to be cut as far as possible. . .
But cut the work. . .you have to be ruthless with energy expenditure.Your energy.

Noted Jansman. My pratting about with the pallets was a stress relief exercise and I don't consider that wasted effort. I took on board the energy expenditure angle. No leaf shredding and I will JUST DUMP sh**-loads of stuff in without any concerns about shredding leaves or card or smashing eggshells etc. I'll let time, the worms and whatever, do there stuff. I'm layering a bit but not being pedantic.
Objective. To fill it this year and get it HOT HOT HOT.