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I found a seed left over from last year, and stuck it in a pot in late March. It started making flowers a week or so back, so I assume it´s an automatic (though I don´t remember finding seeds in autos). The thing is, it´s just over 6 feet high now and looks like yielding a great harvest. Took...

I made a frame 6ft X 4ft and used string to form a grid of 4inch squares. I suspended it over four plants, and everything that grew through was sent sideways, over and under the string. I ended up with a level sea of little pine trees rather than four Christmas trees. Total height was about...

That´s good news, my autos vary a lot this time. I´ll be smoking them until harvest, when I hope to make oil for the first time.

I´ve got beer, can you play banjo ?

It´s a very fibrous mix, not sure exactly of what, called Sustrata in Spain, recommended by my local Garden Centre. Seems to work well either on it´s own or mixed with a bit of gravelly soil and wood ash from the compost heap. Same plant weeks later. Looking up into the Sierra Nevada, there´s...

When they start to get dry, the branches lose their rigidity and slowly bend downwards. They soon recover when watered, but then I move them out of the sun for the rest of the day. Overwatering can mean they are sitting in water and not getting oxygen, which will also make them droop. I´ve had...

I agree. Even when growing in a cupboard, the need for water varied. Now growing in the sunshine, that can vary a bit as well, I´ve been watering large pots every two days, and still one will start to droop occasionally and I have to shade it. I spend time with them every day, some seem to need...

Grew in a tiny cupboard for 13 years, now growing under the great blue arc of the Mediterranean sky. Happy solstice to you and all other indoor gardeners. Four Magnum Autos, started late March, ready any day now.

Gardener Wanted, 8 € per hour and all the avocados you can eat. Bring your own climbing gear. People ask how long it takes to walk down to the village. I tell them if they shut their eyes and walk around a bit, ---- about seven seconds.

Roll over Beethoven,

It might be a case of how much change you are prepared for -- I´m near Lanjarón, which has many YouTube videos and it´s a lovely town. However, apartments are generally very close together with little privacy, so many would not meet your requirements. Partly because it huddles against a steep...

It´s been said " A man chases a woman until she catches him." Catch ´em young, treat ´em rough, tell ´em nowt. That´s my better half´s motto anyway ...

It´s around 3,500, most of whom seem to know each other.

September 2016, I´d spent most of that year in Spain, in a rented casita on the outskirts of Orgiva, before moving to a rented house high up the valley of the rio Chico. Casa Regadera (Watering-Can House) stood in the trees, and proved an idyllic spot from which to observe the world from a safe...

Regret application denied. Mustn´t scare the horses.

Here at the Slipsen Falls Home for Runaway Heiresses and Recidivist Nuns we always have extra room, please supply photos and a recent bank statement.

Thanks, yes indeed the coast is where the action is, it´s twenty miles and two hundred years distant !

I only know my town and the one next to it, and it´s a huge country, so speaking personally I don´t feel a need to lock my door at night, or my car or motorbike when in town. Losing my credit card in the street it was handed into the bank, who rang and told me before I knew it had gone. This...

Not weird, I do It too, I also talk to them, that´s not weird either. If they talk back, that´s weird.