Over winter we can grow potatoes.There is nothing to compare with the humble potato when it is home grown .The skin is gossamer thin and must not be peeled off as many of the nutrients are contained in the skin of the potato.Please click the pics)
In the cool season broccoli grows very well.
Through winter we grow strawberries. they grow and ripen through spring and early summer. 
Left Spanish onions and leeks are grown through winter into spring and early summer.
Beetroot are growing very well in winter and are ready now to start harvesting. They are very tender and sweet. Summer crops does not so well they are quickly getting bitter in the heat.
A very big bush of Basil, small leaves, it is a great attraction for bees. Grows and flowers all year round and it is not attacked by grasshoppers like the large leaved Basil.
We grow three types of tomatoes nearly all year round. Roma, Ox-heart and a small version which is very prolific and tasty. 
Most of the surplus is roasted and used later.
Near the vegetable garden grows this white Azalea with these unusual dark pink stripes and blotches. I find it rather attractive.Believe it or not:
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill
except for learning how to grow in rows.
except for learning how to grow in rows.
