A Walk Through My Garden

In the near future I will be taking you through some of the current projects that I am working on here on the farm, but the thing with life on the farm is that in-between all the things you take on, you still need to focus on the sustainability factors such as producing food for the table, so today I wanted to take you through one of my three household gardens and show you some of the progress that we have made as well as the established winter growth.

As you can see in the video, the granadilla (passion-fruit) and shushu plants are starting to creep nicely over their new canopy, which is simply planted poles stabilized by overhead beams and wire woven across vertically and horizontally, giving the creeping plants a nice stable platform to grow on, and just to give you an idea, this is what those growing frames initially looked like:

As you can see that the plants are really starting to fill out and hopefully I will have a lush (and fruitful) shading canopy over some of my vegetable beds soon.

The entire garden is grown organically - and although some people might think that it means that these plants just grow without any aid, but that is certainly not the case, in fact soft leaved vegetables needs quite a lot of help, and for this I produce all my compost, insecticides and fertilizers on the farm, as they say - all in a days work!