On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 08:43:07 +0000, Pam Moore
wrote:

On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:24:49 +0100, Timothy Murphy
wrote:

I have a small waste area, 1.5 x 7 metres, by the side of my house,
and want to plant something to stop the weeds growing there.
I was thinking of potatoes or sweet peas.
Any other (or better) suggestions?

I'd like to plant as soon as possible.

Periwinkle would be evergreen, nasrurtiums annual.
Shrubs, I'd plant sarcococca.

Pam in Bristol

I did not see that the OP is in Italy, but I remember seeing in
Madeira in February a huge pile of rubble completely covered in
nasturtiums, with nothing else growing through.
Obvisously high ground in Italy does not compare with Madeira, but I
recalled it being good for waste land.

Pam in Bristol