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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497

    I have ordered live mealworms for the birds, 
    I'm in negotiations at the moment for keeping live mealworms in the fridge. I have to maintain a stock of live food for my lizard in case supplies run out and the mealworms are the only long-term live food I can keep but they have to be kept very cold to prevent them pupating. I bought the smallest ones I could find but they're growing too fast now the weather is warming up.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • CheyngelCheyngel Posts: 4,193
    I've just filled in the form for the most vulnerable to receive help with medication and food - was really easy, only took a couple of minutes! 
  • CheyngelCheyngel Posts: 4,193
    I’ve ordered seeds rather than plants ... they can put them in the post. 👍 
    Same here - and it's more fun to grow them!
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    I have a box full of old seed. It's a good time to have a clear out and sow some to see if they are still viable.  Next year might have a garden full of foxglove. 😁
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I don’t know much about lizards, but can you dig up worms or trap a few mice for them if it come to it? 
    I think my kitten is going to have to get used to having a pee in the garden, I don’t know what everyone’s doing with cat litter but there’s none to be had. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053
    Got my fortnightly order from T*sco today. Bagged and left on the doorstep as Tesco had classed me as in the high risk group. Driver from the road apologised profusely for missing items. Got chicken but no chocolate or biscuits. Wondering if the stores are prioritising shelf deliveries to essential items rather than comfort food. If so, kudos to them.
    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    @lyn He'll cope if you still have a bit of litter you can spread in a corner outside so he gets the idea.  He must be quite a big boy by now.   Photo??

    Lots of seeds here, recent and older but a shortage of trays in which to sow them.  Might have to get inventive.  
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Lyn said:
    I don’t know much about lizards, but can you dig up worms or trap a few mice for them if it come to it?
    She'll eat moths and crane flies but wild food has too much of a parasite risk. She used to eat a lot of wildlife when I was a kid though and it never seemed to do her any harm. It was harder to buy live food in those days.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Any sawmills or carpenters workshops around ?.... back in the day ours were happy using woodshavings and sawdust (ex was a carpenter ). 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Any sawmills or carpenters workshops around ?.... back in the day ours were happy using woodshavings and sawdust (ex was a carpenter ). 
    That’s a thought, actually I have a bag of shavings left over from our grave digging days, somewhere in the shed. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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