While visiting my family in the North West province, I was introduced to a delicious vegetable known as Covo (Brassica oleracea var acephala). Covo was introduced to the area by the Zimbabwean families who moved to the area in recent […]
I hope everyone is having a pleasant and safe December. We’ve been busy visiting family, collecting new plants and of course working in the garden. I’ve managed to squeeze in lots of video filming & editing which I’ll be sharing […]
We’ve had a good week weather-wise. Pleasant days of cool mornings, hot around midday and the typical Highveld afternoon thunderstorms. The Vaal dam is still desperately under capacity and our water restrictions are still ongoing. Luckily our rainwater tank is […]
This is the start of our tomato crop for this year. I’ve planted 16 tomato seedlings in the square foot garden out in the front. I’ve got some Roma and Floridade tomatoes, as well as a green and yellow striped, […]
Today I picked some long awaited produce for lunch. I’m happy with how the rainbow carrots are doing. I got a nice purple one. They look very interesting in cross section. This was my second attempt at growing these. The […]
Exciting news! A couple of weeks ago a TV crew came to visit me and interview me about my garden. I spoke about how we try to live an eco-friendly and sustainable life at home. I showed them around the […]
I had great success growing different varieties of leafy greens like Asian cabbages / brassicas & mustards. I went months without buying any salad greens from Woollies. I had so much that was also able to make my own kimchi […]
2016 Weigh-In Day – Saturday the 5th of March. It’s here, TOMORROW is the 2016 Giant Pumpkin Weigh-in day. This article is brought to you by our friends from Living Seeds, where I bought the seeds for my 2014 Giant Pumpkin […]
There goes the summer. The morning sun rises a little later, afternoons are golden and many of the fruiting plants have started to wind down. I can’t say I’m too heartbroken to see the end of this summer, dear friends. […]
This afternoon was a very fruitful one in the front garden. Yesterday my father-in-law and our groundsman finished a small project to fence off a large strip of the front garden to keep the dogs out. This area includes the […]