What am I growing today?

South Africa is currently creeping into winter, but living in Limpopo means that growing is possible all year round.

The great thing is that winter here is a good time to grow all your tender leaf vegetables, without having to worry about excessive heat ruining your crop, and as you can see my green-beans, sweetcorn an spinach are loving the weather.

During winter months we also start harvesting fruit in abundance, and as you can see here my guavas,

as well as my granadillas (better known as passion-fruit) are flourishing!

More Veggies for the House:

Well seeing that winter is a lovely time for stews and soups I figure that there is no such thing as "too much veggies", so I also planted some onions, carrots potato's and kale.

And yes - I am growing my potatoes in old tires:

For those of you that might not be familiar with this method, you plant the potatoes in the ground then as the plant gets stronger you place a tire around it, you carry on filling the tire up with soil until it is full then you place another tire on top of that repeating the process.

This forces the potato plant to grow upward and the potatoes are formed withing the tire structure, so by the time that your stack is about five tires high your potatoes will be close to harvesting, then you simply topple the structure and pick out the potatoes , so much easier than digging with the risk of damaging the potatoes.

Oh and of course, what is a home garden without some tomatoes - aren't they gorgeous?

All of the plants that I grow on the farm is grown organically (with the exception of this years corn crop), none the less I am looking forward to some hearty stews and soups prepared from my winter garden this year!

Happy Growing!