Growing Cabbage This Autumn

Some of the harvest from 2013 summer crop

Cabbage one of the most loved vegetable in my family.

Sadly,  the weather has not been kind to my cabbage and I have really struggled to get even a small crop.

Part of the problem is that it is a cool season vegetable and the sun is too hot in my region.

No matter how much  I water the cabbages, they don't seem to get enough water and their growth is just stunted. Then there are the bugs....

Monthly Planting Plan: What To Grow In The North West Province This January

I found a vegetable and her planting plan online, developed by Organic Seeds and I like it. The plan is appropriate for Summer Rainfall areas, of which the North West province is one of them.

Most of the are vegetables that we like and I want to grow, so I'm going to follow it very closely this January. Here are some of the vegetables I'm going to grow: