3 Heirloom Vegetable Gardens...

Hey everyone, my quest to live 100% off grid is gaining some nice momentum. I started a vegetable garden just over a month ago. All my seeds I have procured from www.livingseeds.co.za do check them out they have some amazing products. All and only heirloom, from yellow brinjals to multicoloured heirloom carrots, incredible

Here we have green peppers. These were supposed to be peppadews that my landlord gave me to plant but turned out they are green peppers just as healthy and nice, just not as hot.

Kale, anyone know this? Not as popular as spinach but 1000 times more healthy for you and very high in vitamin K, Kale is actually classified as a super food and extremely good to eat cooked or raw, nice in salads and excellent to juice, I plan to do both!

Naturally when you start off with seeds it takes a little longer but it is well worth the wait. These are all rather small, but have really started to develope and grow well.

Here we have Spinach and Kale planted in one row. I recently purchased heirloom seeds from a Nursery, they did not do too well or sprout prolifically at all, so I got onto livingseeds.co.za purchased a whole bunch more and they are now germinating and growing with 'gusto'!!

Multicoloured carrots, heirloom would you believe, red, purple, yellow, orange and purple even. I can't wait for them to mature I plan to use these in salads as well as juice with Kale and Spinach!

This horrid critter I found in the compost heap, normally folks would just kill this and move on. I did not, I planted him back in another compost heap far from my garden, he looks destructive and I am sure he is as is traditional gardening/farming is tough with all the bugs and critters that eat it all.

He looks alien doesn't he?

Of which I speak right here, probably that 'fat boys' cousins sorting out this Kale, sigh and it was doing so well. The strategy in organic traditional gardening for me is just to plant as much as you can, that way you get to 'share' with the critters, not kill anything and have enough for yourself. That is the plan anyways lets see how that pans out.

When I used to farm with Aquaponics ( I have done many posts here) problems like these really do not exist, Oh I miss it so much. I have noticed with traditional gardening too, plants do just not grow as fast as they do in an aquaponics environment. I do plan to make another system too as I would love to be able to grow some nice Tilapia in an aquaponics system again! Stunning technology and a MUST in your goal to get 100% off grid, that and bee-keeping, solar and a reliable sustainable water source I feel are the most important!

Here we have some loose leaf gourmet lettuce, not growing as fast as I would like and critters love them too.

Another row of Kale and Spinach planted together!

Anyone know what these are? Onions of course, these are great to have in a garden but you need to plant in Winter and plant a few weeks in a row so come harvest time you get a nice progressive constant supply, I plan to use this strategy with carrots too as I would like to juice regularly!

Lots of work to be done here still, these are all planted, they don't currently look like much from a distance as the plants are small but I will keep posting as we develope and grow.

That basic string structure is to keep the dogs out, flimsy as it is but works rather well.

My old faithful 'wheelbarrow' but better, Electric Scooter helping out transporting compost, water plants etc and is fun to ride too.

Garlic, this is an interesting one, I have purchased about 5 different varieties of these from a 'Giant' Garlic to red, purple and snow whites. I love garlic and is one of the worlds greatest natural anti biotics always brilliant in meals, salads and extremely healthy, a MUST in Winter, just be prepared to wait at least 3 months to harvest!

Nature the incredible, I trust you have an amazing weekend.

Cheer$;)