Growing heirloom tomatoes & volunteers
October 14, 2016
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 …
Food
Berry beautiful – spring 2016 update on blueberries & more
October 13, 2016
I've been quite busy tending to all sorts of berries this season. Pictured is a bee pollinating a blackberry bush at my in-laws. They gave me lots of cuttings - for the second time - …
Today’s harvest: Purple carrots, cape gooseberries & granadillas
October 12, 2016
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 …
My Zombie Avocado tree & New Zealand Avo-crime wave
July 5, 2016
In 2015/16 South Africa experienced what I like to call the Great Avocado Crisis. Prices went through the roof at the supermarkets and avos became like the caviar of the moment. There were some entreprenuerial …
Success growing sweet mini peppers from supermarket fruit
June 1, 2016
The mini sweet peppers I planted in December are doing great...some much better than others as you can see from the images below. I was inspired by a thread on Gardenweb's hot pepper forum to …
Cool season veggies I’m growing this year
May 28, 2016
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 …
Looking for some hot stuff: Chilli salsa recipe
January 16, 2016
I love hot, spicy food and of course growing lots of different types of chillies. Once of the easiest ways to use & store my hot pepper crops is with a simple salsa. This is …
Success with rooting amaranthus
December 5, 2015
I recently posted about wildcrafting and begining to propagate amaranthus cuttings. I'm very happy to report that this has been a success. In just about two or so weeks the cuttings from the red & …
Ticket give-away: ArtMode 4 – Eat Paint Love festival
December 3, 2015
Hey Cape Town readers. I'm giving away 2 sets of double tickets to ArtMode 4th Edition: EAT PAINT LOVE Festival. You have to be in Caoe Town during the festival which starts on 12 December, …
Planting out my double jalapeño peppers
November 24, 2015
Nurseries often plant chillies two to a pot. Better to leave them together when they're this developed, or risk losing one or both. I experienced this last year when I bought a rather large Uyababa …