"............Through stormy weather and bottles of wine........”
In our aim to become more self sufficient this year, we have decided it would be a good idea to grow some of our own veg . So Keith and our friend Bob (in the guise of Ralph and Ted from the “FastShow”); Have been mostly...... working in the lower field!
Last year, over a glass or two of Ouzo, with our friends Bob ‘n’ Bev, we talked about using the large expanse of wilderness behind their house in Aviolotes. It was an old olive grove, long since deserted and sold off to them to build their house, we concluded that if it could be ploughed and rotivated we could grow some veg for our communal use. And what seemed like a good drunken idea turned into reality when Bob arranged for “Spiro”and his tractor to pull out some old tree stumps and clear his land. We were committed to the ‘goodlife’ !
In our aim to become more self sufficient this year, we have decided it would be a good idea to grow some of our own veg . So Keith and our friend Bob (in the guise of Ralph and Ted from the “FastShow”); Have been mostly...... working in the lower field!
Last year, over a glass or two of Ouzo, with our friends Bob ‘n’ Bev, we talked about using the large expanse of wilderness behind their house in Aviolotes. It was an old olive grove, long since deserted and sold off to them to build their house, we concluded that if it could be ploughed and rotivated we could grow some veg for our communal use. And what seemed like a good drunken idea turned into reality when Bob arranged for “Spiro”and his tractor to pull out some old tree stumps and clear his land. We were committed to the ‘goodlife’ ! We all arrived back here in Corfu in May having acquired various gardening tools and packets of seeds, bulbs and plants to stock our veggie experience. Bob proudly showed off his latest purchases; an electric rotivator and having watched a programme of the “hairy bikers” showing off some speciality potatoes (red & blue coloured) they’d brought some of those as well! We were mightily impressed.
A couple of days after arriving we got to work on the lower field, Keith & Bob doing most of the donkey work
although Liz and Bev were allowed to drive the rotivator a couple of times when the boys had finished playing ,
and Liz planted all the peas, (which is nice)....... then had a well earned cigarette or two!! 
We have planted seed potatoes, onions, carrots, beetroot, peppers, garden peas, various salad seeds, some tomatoes, peppers, aubergines, courgettes, and melons.
It is amazing how fast everything grows here, within days things started sprouting up, we have now been here 2 weeks and already things are coming up, tomato plants are flowering, all the seeds we planted are coming through, this weekend we had a 12 hour downpour followed by hot sunshine and as a consequence our little plantation looks like a school experiment; you know, the one, when you leave cress on blotting paper on a window ledge...... 
Today we have been mostly ........putting netting up for our peas, and banking up the beds around the potato plants, and sitting watching it all grow!!It is going to be so nice eating our own produce, although Liz is still unsure about eating anything that is grown in soil, as all her veg normally arrives clean from the supermarket! There is still a bit of educating to be done there I think!
“......Me and the farmer like brother like sister
Get on like hand and blister,
Me and the farmer.......”
“......Me and the farmer like brother like sister
Get on like hand and blister,
Me and the farmer.......”
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