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For sure once it goes full time that will have to increase significantly.
The land is essentially a plot which in its day would have been an olive grove along the top half and vineyard along the bottom where there is a stream,
Must have been similar here coz our garage is down on the deeds as an Olive drying hut.........
(but only cold water for now).
Hubbys Idea for solar hot water......?...run 200m of garden hose across the south facing roof side....... ...he says they would be as efficient as some of the solar water heaters which are basically copper pipe in a panel on the roof.......and it wouldnt cost 2 Grand.......
The Toilet has a hole of about 10 meters deep (I will fit a real porcelain one at some point, currently it is a wooden structure.
Here on the rural properties they say look for the Biggest Cactus......they used to stick them next to the cess tank to purify the waste.....
Put a vegetable patch in which got mashed up by the wild boar,
Lucky we don't have them...they say they can do massive damage............................but they Taste Nice..............
so far, more mistakes and restarts than successes but in the words of the late great Magnus Magnusson...I have started so I will finish.
Still ongoing here...........instead of looking at plants and adapting the conditions...I am onto finding plants that Thrive in the conditions.....
It's a hell of a lot easier adapting to It than having to adapt it to you......
Stayed there a fair bit this year, but mid summer was crazy hot and the stream dried up so had to go to a hotel a fair trek away for daily showers which wore thin incredibly fast...so flew back in the end.
Can you not get Tanked water......?.....they are well set up for it here...