Food

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…

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…

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 –…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…