Okay, so maybe a small exaggeration but we do literally grow our own basic salad ingredients which see us through the entire summer with very little fuss. In summer our climate is extremely hot so salads form a large part of our diet.
A small hot house for growing seedlings and maintaining salad ingredients and herbs
Swiss Chard
From the garden we have rocket and tomato's
These ended up in our salad last night
Rocket aka Aragula
We grow a couple of beetroot plants for their leaves in salad. If picked while quite small the leaves are quite sweet and one beet can provide for the entire summer if you only take a few leaves at a time.
Beetroot plants
An exotic lettuce which I do not know the name of .... I would appreciate feedback if you recognise the plant
Unrelated to this post, but I could not help thinking about fellow Steemian @haphazard-homestead whilst doing this post. A forager of note and a quality blogger...sadly he no longer graces these pages with his presence !!!
Thanks for stopping by, as always..
Namaste
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Sorry to hear your friend no longer blogs here. I'm saddened too. Many of my favorites I followed have also left steem over the years. I think the reason is due to the hardforks. I've witnessed a lot of people who rage-quit because their honest content had been downvoted as spam, even though it was 100% original creative contributions. I disagree with people who downvote any crap they dislike, because it is ruining public interest from casual web surfers who feel threatened for participating on the blockchain. Nobody blames facebook for people posting crap on their own feed.
I quietly quit facebook because of the horrible ads, junk notifications, their forced ownership of my original content, and mostly because of the censorship police. Now people want to bring that garbage here to "improve" the blockchain, and the nightmare is back.
... end of my selfish rant.
Besides all that...
I can't believe you got all those healthy veggies to skyrocket and grow inside that cheap little greenhouse. I've been wanting something like that for a few years. Are you pretty happy with it? Anything you've learned to make it more effective?
Thank you for sharing an awesome gardening featured post. One of my favorite tags on here to curate.
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Thanks for stopping by and the kind words. I also stopped blogging for a few months as the interaction had all but dried up and there was nothing but bots charging around voting and down voting. But I missed the blogging and started doing it again for my own state of mind. I love doing music and cooking and nature so I just muddle along.
Yes, the hot house works a treat, but being in Africa the sun is devilish hot and so we open it during the day. We made the mistake of using many small pots initially and the plants became stressed and dry in the intense heat ... so we transplanted to larger pots and this works a lot better.
I also need to devise some sort of drip irrigation for when we go away for weekends as these plants need water DAILY during summer.
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What sort of time investment do you make to plant, tend and harvest your bits and pieces. I'd imagine it's not an inordinate amount of time so seems like a pretty good return.
P.s. Why has that user left steem? Just curious.
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The time investment is probably around 20 minutes a day, and then now and again an hour when putting seeds into soil and / or transplanting seedlings to bigger containers. It is not really a cost saving but the taste is better when you know that everything has been grown organically... and of course as fresh as you can get. I am not sure why @haphzrd-homestead stopped blogging but when I checked just now I see he last posted 2 years ago
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Yes, food one has put effort into growing always seems to taste better.
Oh, I thought that user had only just disappeared...Haven't been around for while though. Many come and go I guess.
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I don't care what the people that do the nutrition profiles say, I reckon the stuff from the backyard tastes best XD
Your setup looks tiny and adorable :)
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Thank you..... as always
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