Subsistence Farming - on a very small scale

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