Hey everyone, what beats been totally self sufficient off-grid, healthy, happy and totally free of the bondage of and depending on corrupt evil government and their sponsored cohorts for 'services'.
Are you off grid, do you plan to get off grid? Why not embark on this journey with me? The first and best way to begin (in my humble opinion) is a large and comprehensive vegetable garden.
My landlord and partner just delegated a nice piece of land on this magnificent property to a lovely vegetable garden for all of us. He sponsors the land compost water etc and I do all the work, sounds like a great deal to me.
I have ordered a nice few packs of heirloom seed from www.livingseeds.co.za do check them out. They do everything from multi-coloured carrot's to multi-coloured corn, can you believe that these are all heirloom? True story they really are!
I recently cut some branches off the local perennial basil plant and they took to root like a duck to water. Bees love these, this herb will make a fantastic winter feed for bees too, so I am planting tons of these at the moment!
I plan to put around 10 of these in a row, it should make a magnificent hedge and food source for the bees as well as make a fantastic feature in this vast garden too!
Can you spot the orchards in the background? These Tree's comprise of everything from Sharon Fruit (persimmon) Date's, Peach Tree's, Kiwi's, Mango's, Guava' Grape-Vines and more. This place really is the garden of eden and about to get so much better too with our new vegetable garden!
Digging the holes and filling up with compost. This soil is nice and loose with very few rocks too. We have had an abundant rainfall this season so very nice and easy to work this soil.
Here we have my favourite companion on the property a gorgeous 12 year old Dachund that follows me all over the place she is literally my shadow. I have only lived here 8 months but she has adopted me which is rather rare and strange as Dachund's are generally considered a '1 man dog'.
I am rather lucky as this soil is pretty loose and easy to dig. The rows to the left I have already fertilized and planted carrot and garlic seed.
Last night my landlord who is the owner of this magnificent land and Nursery took me to the bottom of the garden and said Craig here plant these. He gave me green and red peppers already growing nicely as well as peppadews. I just love all capsicum (nightshade) plants, which include peppers, peppadews, chilli's and more.
As per wikipedia : Capsicum (/ˈkæpsɪkəm/[3]), the pepper, is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Its species are native to the Americas, where they have been cultivated for thousands of years. Following the Columbian Exchange, it has become cultivated worldwide, and it has also become a key element in many cuisines. In addition to use as spices and food vegetables, Capsicum species have also been used as medicines and lachrymatory agents.
Check out more about that here as per wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum
Peppadews and Bell Peppers all planted in compost, well hydrated and happy. Now is not the best time to be planting these as we are approaching winter and the frost may kill them off, but lets take a chance and worst case scenario we don't get too much fruit from this this season, but they will come up again in spring!
Two hours later all done and dusted. I filled up some seedling trays with compost for use to plant my freshly germinated Kale and Spinach to be planted in a few weeks.
I am busy germinating seeds for this garden at my house. Kale, Spinach, Carrot's, Chilli's and more, I will take pics and blog this most interesting journey.
Bees and Vegetables, sticking it to the evil establishment one bee, vegetable and day at a time.
Cheer$;)