We have cleared a space in fynbos to start a big veggie garden. The earth here is made up of clay and rock so we have decided to use raised beds and luckily there is a place we can get old wooden boxes from just down the road. And since we run a vegetarian market stall we have lots of compost to fill up the boxes.

What the land looked like before clearing

Our workaways, Duart and Walter clearing space for the garden

It’s the season to plant peas and beans so we made some trellises for their little tendrils to cling to and grow up to create shade for the veg growing underneath as it still gets up to 35 degrees celcius in Autumn. In the first bed we planted greenfeast peas, sweet peas and orange, purple and yellow carrots.