The ploughed field is ours, with the vegetable patch at the left-hand side, and I took this picture this morning on the way back from walking Jasper. It's nice sometimes to have an over-all view of my work!I've got mixed feelings about the veg area though. On the one hand I enjoy doing the work, and would do even if nothing at all grew. Some veg seem to do well - peas, beans, tomatoes, courgettes and the swiss chard. I don't know yet about the peppers and chillis as they're not very big at the moment and still inside their pop bottles. The radishes, beetroot and carrots did well last year but don't seem to be doing quite so well this year, goodness knows why, and as for the onions... I haven't a clue what's going on there as they seem to have completely stopped doing anything, although they're not fully grown! The spring onions though, seem to be ok.
The other thing is that it's a bit of a trek, down five terraces, to get to the veggies and, if I forget to take something that I need down with me... well it's ten times worse coming back up! Ideally it would be absolutely great to have the veg patch near to the house, but that's just not possible so I'll just have to keep on remembering that going up and down is helping me to keep fit!
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You've got a lovely view from your hillside. I don't have 5 terraces to trek, but there are 40 steps from the garage up to the front door. I keep any number of things in the garage and seem to be climbing up and down those stairs all the time. It is good exercise I suppose!
What a lovely view! Yes, it's difficult in some ways having a garden far from the house - ours is on the hill about 10minutes walk away so we keep tools in a shed there, but the sheds are broken into from time to time. I think it takes a few years to find out what grows well and what doesn't grow at all in a new climate - we're still trying to work that out, with a lot of help and advice from people who've been gardening here for decades. Keep at it, it's worth it for the crops that do grow!
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