Hello Kostas and all others,
I'm really inspired by his topic and I can't believe that I didn't think of it........ We are Dutch and moved from Holland to "the Altiplano the Granada" in Andalusia Spain. We start to adapt to the culture and climate and we recently "got" into permaculture and trying to transform our olive orchard (with some other fruit trees like: almonds, apples, pears, figs, walnuts) into a food forest and kitchen garden with lots of culinary and medicinal herbs; a real chalenge. Although the computer said we are in zone 9......the altitude is 850M. So we have dry and very hot summers and winters with freezing temperatures during the night and sometimes +20C during daytime. This year it rains more than last year (YES, we are so grateful
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Our soil is about the same as you described Kostas.....so not easy and our budget is limited right now, but almond seed planting is great, as we have lots from our neighbors......
On the local farmers market we can get plum seeds and probably apricots and nectarines.
So thank you for the inspiration; we start tomorrow!!!
We also would like to know if the hard shell of the almond must be removed before planting, so they can sprout more easy?
Best wishes, Jacqueline and Heine
