How remote is your plot

[oldherbaceous]

Peter, did you manage to get your fence completed.

[jane E]

My plot adjoins my house. Half a mile up the road one way is my nearest neighbour. The road is single track and my neighbour passes on his loadall or landrover or tractor from time to time. Very occasionally other vehicles pass. Other than that there are miles and miles of countryside and I can't hear any traffic noise. Do I feel safe? Yes. Why? Because nothing would happen in the countryside without someone knowing about it!

[cevenol jardin]

my location is pretty remote.
Its about 4km to the nearest road the last 2 of which is a dirt track climbinhg up our mountain which we share with our lovely neighbours (a couple). Other than that only birds, creatures, plant life and bugs

most of our friends leave their car at the bottom of the track as it has been known to take chunks out of anything low slung


our post box is at the bottom of the track

[Malk]

Ok are you trying to make us all jealous? Is that a picture of your plot?

[peter]

Peter, did you manage to get your fence completed.

Herbie, any time you feel like helping, just drop me a line, just another twentyfive posts on the north, then I start on the east......

[oldherbaceous]

Gosh Peter, i didn't realize you were fencing in the whole of Stansted.

[cevenol jardin]

Yep Malk - the veg patches are on the side i am standing. The side you can see is where they used to grow potatoes (the first of the season in this region aparently) but i haven't got a donkey and that is pretty tough ground some of those stone terraces are 13ft high.

We are thinking of putting wild cherries or olives on them. Have started to grow a few trees from stones to get started.

Any ideas as to what i could grow there much appreciated - its too far from the water source so veg are out.

[Malk]

Ohh now I am jealous. Wild cherries and olives sound wonderful but won't you need lots of water to get them started.

I have no advice, but it looks like you're living my dream. No fair. Only I want a place like that in Italy.

Is it like an allotment or is it your land? If it's an allotment ask the locals what to grow, I'm sure they'll know best.

[cevenol jardin]

Its our land, well we are the caretakers of it,it did have olives on it at one time apparently they all died in a severe frost in the sixties. Yep will need to get water to them but big bursts once every 2 weeks which is doable for the olives and the wild cherries manage here by themselves that's why i was thinking to propogate from the wild ones.

We have a friend of a friend coming up soon to have a look and see what he thinks we can grow on the terraces, he's an olive man so keeping my fingers crossed.

I would choose Italy over France to be honest - better food and culture in my opinion - but my other half wanted to live in France - so we drive over to Italy about twice a year to buy seeds, see friends and i always learn a load about veg growing from the old timers in the village we usually go to in Liguria.

[Monika]

Spoke to dry stone waller Tracy Blackwell last night, she told me how lovely your spot is!

[Allan]

My plot is nearly 20 miles from the house.

[cevenol jardin]

Hello Monika
what a surprise - how's T - hope she's good.

If you see Tracy again - tell her we're missing her. spring is not the same without yorkshire wallers round the place. R and I have really got the walling bug and Tracy is to blame infectous and brilliant, hopefully we'll see her sometime this year, and hopefully she'll be proud of us, her students - walls going up all over the place.

kind regards Laura