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…
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This week in the garden – Blossoms, new beds & a beauty
by Lalaby LalaWe’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…
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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…
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The two lovely ladies in the featured picture are our two Brahma hens, Lindsay and Paris. They are living happily in the Chicken McMansion in the back garden. We have…
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I don’t do New Year’s resolutions, but I am very excited about several projects we’ve got on the go and that we plan to start this year. Something I’m really…
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The giant pumpkin project started at the end of September 2014. After reading up on hugelkultur we set up a raised bed using some of its concepts. The bed didn’t…