Hi all, new to prepping. Help?!?

[johno1987]

Hi all. New to prepping and was wondering if someone could help. I have always been worried that society as we know it could brake down for a number of reasons...race relations take a nosedive and as a result there is rioting, an economic collapse resulting in super inflation and civil unrest or even an oil crisis. I have started by preparing veg plots in the garden in order to start growing my own veg on a large scale. Lucky to have a large garden with the room to do it. I was hoping to start storing food and preserving it. Can anyone give any tips for these two? Totally new to this so you'll have to excuse me if I sound somewhat thick...with the seeds for the veg do I pot them indoors then transfer when ready into the veg patch? The veg patch was dug about a foot deep and then I mixed existing soil with compost from the compost heap and then put normal soil over the top. Any tips/advice for a total novice? Cheers for your help, Jono

[Djorn]

Bring them up indoors or a greenhouse at this time of year then plant them out after risk of frost has past....saying that, this is England....grow them in hydroponics...winter is never ending

I am growing my seedlings on the window seal in the Kitchen...

Dj

[Djorn]

Jono, you could google Shelf stable cooking....Amazon have a good book available...preppers cookbook...order mine the other day...teaches you how to can food and make it Shelf Stable..

[johno1987]

Thank you both, much appreciated. I will order the book and probably start with pots on the window seal. I know food can be preserved using lemon, salt and lime so will look into that as well. I was in Poundland the other day and they had tinned corned beef that expired in late 2017. This is about the longest lasting tinned food I had found, I have a room allocted for storing tin food and water.

[johno1987]

thank you both, much appreciated. I will purchase the book tonight. will probably start for the moment keeping the pots on window seal until i find my feet. jono

[tigs]

hi jono welcome to the forum , why not take a look at the link on my sig its a really useful site

[johno1987]

thanks tigs, much appreciated. jono

[tacticalprepper]

Welcome to the forum! Check out the Food, Nutrition and Agriculture section, there might be some useful info in there. I'm useless at growing myself, but there's a lot of knowledgeable people here. Hope you enjoy your stay
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[Technik]

Hi johno and welcome to the forum. There's lots of good info on here so just look around, use the search button and ask people - we are all a friendly bunch...most of the time

Tigs, I had a look at your website, it's great. Haven't seen it before so bookmarked now. Thanks

[tigs]

its a good little site covers quite a bit too