Thanks for the shearing 👍💐

Great video, love your tips.

What do you plant with the sweet potatoes?

Thanks Reuben. I'm sure everyone can relate that with the current rise in food prices that we are all trying to find ways to save money and strech our grocery budget. Knowing the time, resources and effort that a home gardener put into growing vegetables, we as growers tend to make the most of every crop. My favorite cut and come again crops would most probably be herbs. One of my rosemary bushes was grown from cuttings that I took from a plant on the roadside. Its one of the easiest plants to propagate. I don't know if you are familiar with chimichurri a staple condiment in Argentina. It's main ingredient for this recipe is carrot tops.( Woolworths sometimes sells it) Interestingly carrot tops can also be used as a replacement for parsley. Sometimes I just snip a few leaves off and use them as a parsley substitute and again when I harvest carrots, I chop the leaves of, discarding the stalks and use the remaining leaves to dry.. Later in the winter I add them to rice and stews. Fresh carrot tops contains 6 times more the amount of vitamin C than the root. I also occasionally buy carrots and place some of the carrots that I like back into the soil. The leaves sprout and in time the plant bolt, flower and produce seeds. This ensure that I have an arsenal of seed diversity. Another vegetable that I can think of is leeks. I cut them just above the ground, place some mulch around the plant and like clockwork the plant grows back into its full size again. You just need to keep the roots intact when you harvest them. I do the same with fennel except that I pull the plant out. Place the bottom in a glass of water in the windowsill until the bulb form.roots and then plant it back into the soil. Once I forgot about one at the bottom of my garden and the plant grew into a giant bulb. Thanks you for the great content. Wishing you a prosperous growing season

Hi, Rueben!!! What do you use for your soil?

Another great video Rueben, do you have any suggestions for leafy greens that can handle our hot dry summers here in the Western Cape - or is expecting to harvest during the hot months too far fetched. Thx!

Hi reuben my name is Rebecca I recently came across your videos how do you control pest in your garden?

Let us support Reuben's channel by watching videos guys so that he can bemonetized. I'm so inspired 😊😮❤

Your garden is amazing 'fresh produce harvest ❤❤❤keep them coming i really enjoyed watching

What do you do with the beets leaves Reuben? Your gardening experience is amazing 😊 Funny my Swiss Chard doesn't have colours.

Wawooo, thank you so much. Am your new subscriber. I love what you do

Good evening Ntate Reuben,you veg garden is beautiful,I'm inspired :-)

Good afternoon Mr Ruben. Im so facinated about your content and your garden specific. Im also here in Cape Town. What seedling mixture do you use. I would like to start my own seedlings because then I dont have to buy seedlings, this can become costly.

Where do you buy your manure?

Thanks

Good show sir, did you find any issues with the extreme weather/rainfall we had this winter in the Cape? I noted an increase in certain pests....

And again thank you so much for the video coz I didn't know which one is best for spring

Am thinking tomato n butter nut and sweet potatoes

agreed agreed Reuben, thanks for the tips

7:57 first time seeing this thankyou

Well done, thanks for the inspiration. Baie dankie.

Thanks Reuben. Learning as we go. Love your channel

Thank you for sharing nice video my friend I have small garden I will make some compost

Hello my new friend your garden very nice and beautiful I am one hwo love to eat vegetables 👍👌

Good video Reuben

Tried planting a variety of store onion bulbs the bottom 5th cut.. and making a diary entry of the date.. hoping they would make up for a few weeks of growing compared to seed.. might be a few weeks late but well see. Roodepoort.

Wow what is in your soil? Totally love your content

I love how health your veggies are. Which part of Mzansi are you garden from. Here in Gauteng only starting now👌🙏

Besides harvest, gardening brings many spiritual gifts to your home.

Ur garden is making me jealous Sir 🫣 i hav a very small space dt i dnt have a clue how to structure it for raised beds..jst yesteday i tried to make 1 bed bt im not sure i did a great job

Wow ❤️

Ohh the joy of pulling up a good-sized beetroot - makes me feel like a super woman😁

I envy how well your brassicas grow, you always get massive harvests🤩. I can't grow brassicas in peace because of aphids, I only have one surviving cabbage & broccoli plant but they also don't look good. My strategy is that what I sow in one bed, I will sow it again in other beds after a month. It has worked well on everything except for brassicas. Beans don't seem to like my soil, corn as well doesn't germinate. I'm learning how to start seeds indoors for succession planting because I always direct sow. But I'm happy that everything else that I enjoy grows well, I won't give up on those that don't. We soldier on🥲

I tried planting in pots last summer. I carried on with winter crops. Having no succes yet but will try again this season. Kept my 2 eggplants alive through our winter in Bloemfontein.

That was a great video on succession planting Rueben. Except for some bush beans and radishes, I am yet to master succession planting. You do have a lot going on in your garden and everything looking so good. Thanks for sharing.

Great content. Many vegetables have early, mid and late maturing varieties from the same type. Sadly we don't have such a huge range of seed varieties available like countries such as the UK and the USA. I try to make the most of the different vegetable varieties that I can find. I intentionally choose varieties that produce all at once and others sporadic. A great example is tomatoes. My Roma tomatoes is a determined variety and with the narrow harvesting window period I pick most of my tomatoes within a few days, spending a entire day to make Napoletana pasta sauce for the winter months. This ensures that space opens up allowing me to plant another crop as soon as I am finished harvesting. Since my cherry tomatoes ( indeterminate) keeps on producing over time I pick them daily for snacking and if I have extra, I love to make tomato jam with it. ( I put a bit of ginger pieces in my tomato jam and it tastes amazing.) Planting different varieties ensure that I have a steady supply. If you buy glass jars and waterbath can your pasta sauce and jam you will have a steady supply of tomatoes throughout the winter months. There are a myriad of recipes in metric available on the internet with instructions. I buy my jars direct from Consol since they deliver and it is much cheaper. On another note, I see that on Wednesday 16 of October Mayford's Paul Vonk will be at Centurion Builders from 10 to 12am to talk about growing your own flowers, grass or vegetables from seed. Entrance is free and apparently they will be giving away free seed. He is an expert on growing vegetables successfully. I hope that I can find the time to attend, I would love to have more comprehensive knowledge on the diffrent characteristics of Mayford's vegetables varieties, their history and which ones are more productive. I love Mayford's seeds since their germination rate is very high even my old seed that carries over to the next years. As always I love the information and having a peak at your beautiful productive garden.

Hi Rueben . Thank you for the videos , I've been learning a lot about gardening and keep up the good work!❤

Empty bottles and used containers, paint cans very handy for small places

Wow Rueben ... succession planting.. THANK you.!! Space is such a challenge. Your videos have educated me. Teething pains there and there but hey, not complaining. So fulfilling to just go to the garden and pull out kale, mint etc for a meal... I bought non-gmo seeds for my plants... How do I know it's authentically non GMO ? Pls teach us how to prepare the soil... That would be a value add... I throw peels in the garden. Much gratitude for this education. Need to spread this awareness. God bless

Thank you for the video

I finally found the time to watch your content. I love watching your video's and its the highlight of my day. Succession planting to me is the most important part of being a homegrown gardener and you definitely excel at that. I love the crop varieties in between, since this ensure a healthy soil ecosystem. Drawing pests to vegetables is a typical problem with monocropping. Healthy soil also protect crops from heat stroke and nutrient deficiencies. Plants start growing depending on night temperature. This means that you need to look at minimum night temperature when you transplant your seedlings or direct sow. When you transplant your tomatoes plant them as deep as you can just above their first leaves, or you can even snip some of the bottom leaves off and plant your seedlings even deeper. If you look closely you will see tomatoes have small hairs on their stems. If you plant the stem in the soil these hairs change into roots. Only tomato plants can do that. Deep planting ensure a healthy steady root system that will carry the tomato fruits better. What you can also do is buy bathroom hooks with double sided tape and when the prefab walls in your garden is dry, stick them high onto the wall and wait about a day to set. Attach strings to the hooks. Your beans, peas, tomatoes etc can be tied to the string keeping them up if you do not have or can't afford trellises. Oriental or Asian stores usually sell them on the cheap. Just stick to one plant per hook and keep your plants well pruned. This will maximize space to grow more crops.

Hi Rueben, I use the square foot (32 by 32cm)gardening method a lot, my carrots are a continuous crop as well as swiss chard, baby spinach and lettuce spread out in my micro climates. Still expanding my veggie plots.

Thanks for the tips 👍 Succession planting is the way to go ❤

Much love from Lilongwe, Malawi. Reuben you are a hero, thank you very much I have been following your videos which have contributed greater to my green and healthy plants in raised beds, pots, sacks and in more growing spaces.... Summer is here leafy greens are sprouting very good.. Any more growing suggestions please? Its windy, dusty and very hot here in Lilongwe

Informative thank you

Thank you for inspiring us i just planted seedlings which i prefer than seeds of onion spinach,green peppers broccoli cauliflower

I honestly believe small spaces are good for leafy and shrubbs greens then bulbs, waste of space

Loved this episode, thank you for sharing. I intend to get those fabric bags for my garden where did you buy yours from? Thank you in advance

Thank you for sharing. ❤

I am in the US - I want to make sure I understand, but you all are going into your spring/summer season, correct?