Cool Season Crops_ South African Winter Vegetable Garden

In this video I share my favorite cool season crops that is perfect for a winter garden. Growing Brassicas like Broccoli, Cauliflower, Cabbage, kale and root crops like carrots and beet root are perfect crop to increase your harvest. Peas and broad beans are also crops that can handle cool weather conditions.

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Welcome to veggies and herbs my name is winter is coming and for the gardeners in the southern Africa region this is a perfect time to grow some cool season crops so in this video I will share with you my 10 favorite cool season crops so without further Ado let’s get to it now

Broccoli is a cool season crop that they produce a cluster of edible flowers some varieties produce a single head so you can start them off indoors and citrus and then later transplant it into your garden broccoli is actually easy to grow and the days to maturity is 60 to 70

Days it requires fertile soil and also it requires constant moisture so when you obviously you can just cut the head of of the broken I planted a broccoli in the late summer and I experienced some pest pressure but I actually get a beautiful broccoli head the next group will be cauliflower it is

Also a cool seasoning crop it requires also photography soil to cauliflower produce beautiful florets and in order to ensure that it does not discolor it is advisable at the later stage to Branch your cauliflower but last year I had quite a good cauliflower office so you can check out the video on

How to grow cauliflower but cauliflower is definitely one of the crops that you can grow during the winter season the next crop also belongs to the classical family and that is cabbage now cabbage it’s a lovely crop to grow it does very well in during the cool season it can

Even take Frost and that just improve the flavor of your cabbage so I start mine normally off in Citrus and then transplant it into my garden can get affected by pests like the efforts as well as the caterpillar but it is very easy crop to grow and it’s definitely

Something that I am planning to plant during the winter season now onions is stable in many households and it’s not only useful being in the kitchen but it can also be very useful in your garden because it can serve as a pest repellent so I’m planning to plant some of my

Spring onions with my some practicals to ensure that I deter some of the pests that can affect my thoracicas but spring onion is definitely something that you should consider growing during the winter season is that my office indoors them in classes and when you harvest

Them you can then our Harvest them as a bunch but onions are definitely some of the crops that I will be into planting with my practical plants now let’s look at some root crops that can be grown during the winter season carrots is definitely one of those crops

That you must grow during the winter season one of the complexities of difficulty World currencies that it can take so long to germinate but since we receive our rain during the winter season in Cape Town I find it much more easy for me to grow my carrots during the winter season

So it can take up to 60 to 80 days to be ready but you can actually harvest the baby carrots at a much earlier date it does not do well to be transplanted so it’s advisable that you show your carrot directly including soil and then enjoy dumpling sweet carrots

In different colors I also did a video where I showed you how I grow my beetroot but beetroot is a clustered crop so if you plant one seed multiple seeds well seedlings will emerge unlike the carrot beetroot can definitely be transplanted so I prefer to start mine

Off indoors and then transplant it if you want to see how I grow my beetroot check in the description the link of I grow my beetroot by beetroot is definitely a crop that it can also be grown during the winter season so let’s look at some leafy greens that you can grow so

Swiss chat is definitely one of my favorites it is very similar to Spanish so I started man of Windows and citrus and then transplant it into the garden there are quite a number of varieties with different colors and when you harvest your Society is important that

You just twist the outer leaves of the crop it’s a beautiful cut and Come Grow again or come again crop that you can grow throughout the winter and even late into the summer period another leafy green will then became now Kane is on the top chart of nutritional vegetables who come

With different shades of green it is a perfect crop to grow actually during the winter season as it can also be able to handle the frost conditions now peace is also an ideal crop for home Gardener the only drawback is that if you have a small space you will need to plant a

Number of plants to ensure that you get a proper Harvest but peas are easy to grow and you can since it’s a tender crop it’s important that you sew them directly into your soil for the climbing variety it’s important that you provide trailers or some structure so that you

Can clamp so I’m planning to after I’ve ever seen some of my beans is to use that structure to grow my piece but peace is definitely a cool season crop we that work that is very tasty and is it can be able to handle some Frost and

Finally last but not least it is broad beans so since there are runner beans enjoy warm temperatures uh broad beans with cooler temperatures so I start mine off in the newspaper parts to ensure that I reduce the transplant shock I’m planning to grow them throughout the

Winter they can get up to one and a half meter store and once the pots are ready to be harvested you can then Harvest your the proteins but these are some of the crops that I’m planning to grow during the cool season in the next video I’m hoping to share

With you things to consider when you are growing a Winter Garden so subscribe to the channel what if you want to see the notification another crop that I have not mentioned it is definitely great to be grown during the winter season is The Garlic so click on

The screen and check out a guide on growing great garlic in South Africa thank you so much for watching I’m looking forward to see you in the next one cheers