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    Cold Water

    As I don't have a fridge (!) on my allotment, keeping food and drink cold in summer is always a problem, I've found that you can freeze bottles of water, I fill up Evian bottles etc with tap water and put them in the freezer till solid. Then if you put them in a coolbag they keep everything else cold and the water gradually unfreezes during the day giving you lots of lovely cold water when it's boiling hot.
    Sue
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    Do you have no standpipes on your allotments Sue? I just stick my milk in a bucket of cold water which I can change if necessary!

    PS For food I try to eat whatever's growing on lottie at the time!
    Last edited by Snadger; 05-05-2007, 08:57 PM.
    My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
    to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

    Diversify & prosper


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    • #3
      Good idea Sue - also good if you are going on a picnic!
      Bernie aka DDL

      Appreciate the little things in life because one day you will realise they are the big things

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      • #4
        Snadger
        Yes we have one, when it's not being commandeered by the hose-pipe brigade.
        And do eat things on the allotment for lunch and if up there long enough for supper too but like mayonnaise with salad and yoghurt with the fruit, plus when it's really hot the water is very welcome.
        Sue

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        • #5
          A very ancient solution which my Mum used long before Fridges, were in every house, was to sink a large biscuit tin in the ground in a shady place and keep perishables in there, well wrapped, and they kept cool for a long time.
          Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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          • #6
            Roitelet
            That's a good idea, when I can dig the ground again (hopefully the rain today has softened things up) I will dig a biscuit tin sized hole for my cooler.
            best wishes
            Sue

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            • #7
              Make friends with the chook men as well...nowt like a few fresh boiled eggs with your salad!
              My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
              to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

              Diversify & prosper


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              • #8
                Instead of burying the food container, drape it with a wet towel, as the towel dries, re wet it. It's amazing how cold everything stays underneath the towel. There is a technical name for it which I can't remember but it's to do with evaporation
                I you'st to have a handle on the world .. but it BROKE!!

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                • #9
                  we put our beers on strings in the duck pond, works wonders, when i lived in a bed sit i never had the fridge on in winter, just kept a bag out the window, saved me a fortune in bills.
                  Yo an' Bob
                  Walk lightly on the earth
                  take only what you need
                  give all you can
                  and your produce will be bountifull

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