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| dannyboy73 |  | ... | 02-05-2022 @ 16:04 |
Mask it or Casket !! Member 4600, 8166 posts SQ 240, BP 162.5, DL 255657.5 kgs @ 90.5kgs UnEq | Post Edited: 02.05.2022 @ 16:05 PM by dannyboy73 found a large old fashioned sink whilst clearing part of the colvert...Have placed between the veg and fruit gardens near the composter...will use to attract frogs and hence these will eat the slugs. Oh, and most pumpkin seeds have sprouted last night, ready for the pumpkin patch  and our rocket has gone bitter hence 3 week sow cycle...another lesson learned  | ||
| Funky_monkey | | ... | 03-05-2022 @ 13:13 |
 403 forbidden message Member 160, 5121 posts SQ 190, BP 137.5, DL 225552.5 kgs @ 86kgs UnEq | dannyboy73 said: Been eating letuace, red letuace, radish and rocket. Next year we will be sure to plant kale, carrots and spinich to harvest for this time next year. A Lesson learned. Pretty sure you can sow them now, Danny. I put pak choi in the ground yesterday from seedlings that were started off indoors. Got about 30 kale plants in all sorts of colours germinated a few days ago, plus superschmelz giant kohlrabi, cucamelons, daikon radish, spanish black radish, cucumbers. Planted some tomato seedlings (dunno if 1ft high is considered a seedling any more) deep into the ground yesterday - mixed a little native soil with compost and bonemeal. Forgot to add egg shells to the bottom of the hole. | ||
| dannyboy73 | | ... | 06-05-2022 @ 20:04 |
Mask it or Casket !! Member 4600, 8166 posts SQ 240, BP 162.5, DL 255657.5 kgs @ 90.5kgs UnEq | Noted Thanks mate Funky_monkey said: Pretty sure you can sow them now, Danny. I put pak choi in the ground yesterday from seedlings that were started off indoors. Got about 30 kale plants in all sorts of colours germinated a few days ago, plus superschmelz giant kohlrabi, cucamelons, daikon radish, spanish black radish, cucumbers. Planted some tomato seedlings (dunno if 1ft high is considered a seedling any more) deep into the ground yesterday - mixed a little native soil with compost and bonemeal. Forgot to add egg shells to the bottom of the hole. | ||
| dannyboy73 | | ... | 08-05-2022 @ 08:54 |
Mask it or Casket !! Member 4600, 8166 posts SQ 240, BP 162.5, DL 255657.5 kgs @ 90.5kgs UnEq | Post Edited: 08.05.2022 @ 08:59 AM by dannyboy73 This is what hyperinflation looks like. But not here because we are, what? special? still tending your perfect lawn??? Dig it up. | ||
| luki |  | ... | 08-05-2022 @ 13:20 |
Avatar Member 5517, 1538 posts SQ 160, BP 165, DL 201526.0 kgs @ 110kgs UnEq | At least keeping the interest low keeps personal mortgage payments low. ECB is talking about increasing interest to 4%. They're going to cause mortgage defaults for anyone who's already stretched. | ||
| dannyboy73 | | ... | 08-05-2022 @ 15:41 |
Mask it or Casket !! Member 4600, 8166 posts SQ 240, BP 162.5, DL 255657.5 kgs @ 90.5kgs UnEq | Post Edited: 08.05.2022 @ 15:47 PM by dannyboy73 I know, this would be a total disaster for many thousands/ millions? of people with mortgages.This really is the time for people to take a good long hard look at their standing orders and separate the 'needs' from the 'wants'. Do you really 'need' to upgrade your car, phone, contracts ad infinitum? Sorry to be all doom and gloom but my position is full warned full armed. Rough times ahead. The future, my path, used to seem so clear cut to me. But since these past 2 years, the futures is now hidden from me. Its like living in a parallel dimension. Looks the same, sounds, smells tastes the same but man alive, it couldnt feel more different. luki said:At least keeping the interest low keeps personal mortgage payments low. ECB is talking about increasing interest to 4%. They're going to cause mortgage defaults for anyone who's already stretched. | ||
| dannyboy73 | | ... | 08-05-2022 @ 15:45 |
Mask it or Casket !! Member 4600, 8166 posts SQ 240, BP 162.5, DL 255657.5 kgs @ 90.5kgs UnEq | Oh, and we added a few more beds 'no dig'. All composted and ready. Bought in 3 yards of woodchip which we filled around them and added a wooden border to keep the woodchip contained. Thats what Ive been up to this weekend...and getting a bit burnt | ||
| Funky_monkey | | ... | 12-05-2022 @ 12:09 |
403 forbidden message Member 160, 5121 posts SQ 190, BP 137.5, DL 225552.5 kgs @ 86kgs UnEq | dannyboy73 said:I know, this would be a total disaster for many thousands/ millions? of people with mortgages. This really is the time for people to take a good long hard look at their standing orders and separate the 'needs' from the 'wants'. Do you really 'need' to upgrade your car, phone, contracts ad infinitum? Sorry to be all doom and gloom but my position is full warned full armed. Rough times ahead. The future, my path, used to seem so clear cut to me. But since these past 2 years, the futures is now hidden from me. Its like living in a parallel dimension. Looks the same, sounds, smells tastes the same but man alive, it couldnt feel more different. 100% agree with you - a lot of people are spending frivolously and are fked if they miss one paycheck - car, mortgage, latest apple phone etc. I think we are the lucky ones who get enjoyment out of stuff like growing tomatoes, being outdoors in nature - so much free stuff that brings pleasure as opposed to spend spend spend to try and keep up with everyone else who's doing the same. | ||
| dannyboy73 | | ... | 13-05-2022 @ 17:50 |
Mask it or Casket !! Member 4600, 8166 posts SQ 240, BP 162.5, DL 255657.5 kgs @ 90.5kgs UnEq | Post Edited: 13.05.2022 @ 18:01 PM by dannyboy73 pumpkin seeds did not takeHave ordered some more will split 50/50 to ground - greenhouse potted. Apart from that, its looking very good. we are unsure what next to harvest, maybe its the beetroot? We also had a proud day yesterday as my eldest (7) now black stripe brown belt, was invited to start weapons training... He did some basic staff turns but his little hands just cant do the overlap required... I think I will buy him some weapons for his birthday so we can practice together. | ||
| Funky_monkey | | ... | 18-05-2022 @ 13:52 |
403 forbidden message Member 160, 5121 posts SQ 190, BP 137.5, DL 225552.5 kgs @ 86kgs UnEq | Got about 35 daikon radishes in the ground yesterday, and maybe 25 rainbow chard. Got 10 lettuce seedlings that need to be planted, and 5 or 6 superschmelz giant kohlrabi. Snowball turnips looking like the turnip part itself is now growing, about the size of a golf ball now, up from marble last week. 2 more weeks? | ||
| dannyboy73 | | ... | 18-05-2022 @ 19:38 |
Mask it or Casket !! Member 4600, 8166 posts SQ 240, BP 162.5, DL 255657.5 kgs @ 90.5kgs UnEq | Post Edited: 18.05.2022 @ 21:08 PM by dannyboy73 Nice. we are at the end of our lettuce. Still havent got the timings correct will have a gap between the next lot. Im excited to see that within my foraging book, my hawthorn bushes produce early season berries. we have about 200 foot of hawthorn. Working out how to fill the food gaps, that's the key to making this work - some autonomy from the system. We have ordered in a vast amount of peat potting compost. As we agreed, the prices of things are only going to go in one direction, so if we can, we are ordering anything that we forsee we will need down the line. This includes building materials, clothing for us and the kids and all sorts of stockpiling... This is now our general approach to the economic collapse. | ||
| Funky_monkey | | ... | 23-05-2022 @ 13:55 |
403 forbidden message Member 160, 5121 posts SQ 190, BP 137.5, DL 225552.5 kgs @ 86kgs UnEq | I think you have your own compost bin - right? I refuse to pay for dirt. | ||
| dannyboy73 | | ... | 23-05-2022 @ 17:41 |
Mask it or Casket !! Member 4600, 8166 posts SQ 240, BP 162.5, DL 255657.5 kgs @ 90.5kgs UnEq | 3 bays all built from pallets and held together with screws and some 2 by 2 with scaffold boards cut down at the front to release the compost when ready. We have filled one up already which is approx 1m cubed. Moved it across to the middle bay...by the time it ends up at the end bay it should be compost ready. The whole process is approx 9 months start to finish. Funky_monkey said:I think you have your own compost bin - right? I refuse to pay for dirt. | ||
| Funky_monkey | | ... | 01-06-2022 @ 06:24 |
403 forbidden message Member 160, 5121 posts SQ 190, BP 137.5, DL 225552.5 kgs @ 86kgs UnEq | Post Edited: 01.06.2022 @ 06:37 AM by Funky_monkey dannyboy73 said:This is what hyperinflation looks like. But not here because we are, what? special? still tending your perfect lawn??? Dig it up. I honestly see ZERO point in having a patch of grass that people maintain for no point whatsoever. Hopefully it's like pubes - a thing of the past that very people have. It's just one of those things that you don't know why, but now tastes have changed. I look at the lawn thinking "how many potatoes could we have had here!?" Post Script I only just saw the video, I replied to the text only. I lived in north Cyprus, so it's not Turkey but directly affected by its economy due to them both using the same currency. If only inflation were 70%. I am in London now, earning £. The price of diesel has gone up by about 130% since December. The pound was about 20. Then it plummeted to 15, then back up to 20 as it stands now. Diesel was 10, then went to 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23. Prices are set by the govt in Cyprus, so petrol stations all have to charge the same amount. Eggs are now 2 lira each, when my gran was complaining they went up to 1 lira each in December. Milk has seen similar price rises, and is owned by the state. 25% increase in the price of chicken the other day, and it's seen about 125% price rise in the last year. 70% inflation is a big fat lie, I reckon they adjusted it to their "higher minimum wage". You get 25% more money, things cost 105% more, they say it's "only" a 70% inflation rate. If they mean 70% inflation in April alone, I can believe that. When she says Erdogan is doing the opposite of what finance experts say, this is exactly why the country is up 5h1t creek without a paddle. He is the only reason why the country is so bad. His autobiography states that he studied finance at some university, but they have no record of him even applying to said university. "His official biography says he received a degree in 1981 from the Department of Economic and Commercial Sciences at Marmara University. The problem was, no such department ever existed at the university." | ||
| dannyboy73 | | ... | 03-06-2022 @ 16:16 |
Mask it or Casket !! Member 4600, 8166 posts SQ 240, BP 162.5, DL 255657.5 kgs @ 90.5kgs UnEq | Post Edited: 04.06.2022 @ 08:54 AM by dannyboy73 Interesting account of that economy sir.I would say that the way inflation as measured has been skewed. My wife has kept a scientific eye on the cost of food here in the UK. She notes that milk has increase from 1.50 to 1.80 within a month and shopping as a whole has increased over 10% within the past 2 years. She also points to the downsizeing of products... Its the boiling frog thing again. By the time they call the recession most people will be on their knees. The fear is, a form of the social credit system will not be far behind. This is why I've stocked up, planted and am well prepared. | ||