Saturday, May 10, 2008

winter vegetables



We have planted many winter vegetables 2 months ago they are growing beautiful, here is a big bed with Chinese cabbage, a very healthy vegetable and easy to grow, we also have a few beds with Kale and Spinach, together with these we planted lots of Turnip and Beetroot.
At the moment the garden looks really great, the ladies have now all there own beds and love looking after them, they work so hard.

Next week there will arrive truckloads of topsoil and compost, It can only be delivered out side the school gates, so all the soil has to be carried in side to the vegetable garden by the ladies, that is next weeks job.
The following week we will start the next terrace all this soil and compost is for this terrace, we will try a new way of making beds, The No Till Way.
Shirley and I went to a workshop of Bill Kerr a few weeks ago, he is awell known vegetable breeder here in SA, he teached us this new way he has been using for the last years and what gives fantastic results.
It will suit us very well because the digging of the beds takes a long time and is very hard work.
Basically you dont till the soil at all, every thing what grows in the soil stays in, we put manure on top top soil and compost and some lime and we put the seeds in, when the veggies are up and finished the roots can stay in the leaves and anything else stay on the soil and we start all over again.
It sounds almost too good to be true , but we will try it out with terrace no six.