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    This week in the garden – Blossoms, new beds & a beauty

    by Lala November 11, 2016

    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…

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  • GardeningVegetable garden

    Growing heirloom tomatoes & volunteers

    by Lala 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…

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  • BlueberriesGardeningHome Orchard

    Berry beautiful – spring 2016 update on blueberries & more

    by Lala 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 –…

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  • GardeningPermacultureVegetable garden

    Today’s harvest: Purple carrots, cape gooseberries & granadillas

    by Lala 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…

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  • GardeningHome OrchardSuperfoods

    My Zombie Avocado tree & New Zealand Avo-crime wave

    by Lala 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…

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  • ChilliesGardening

    Success growing sweet mini peppers from supermarket fruit

    by Lala 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…

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  • GardeningSuperfoodsVegetable garden

    Cool season veggies I’m growing this year

    by Lala 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…

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  • ChilliesGardeningRecipes

    Looking for some hot stuff: Chilli salsa recipe

    by Lala 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…

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    Success with rooting amaranthus

    by Lala 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…

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  • EventsGive aways

    Ticket give-away: ArtMode 4 – Eat Paint Love festival

    by Lala 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…

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Hi, I'm Lavinia.

I'm a South African environmentalist & former journalist, living in China. I am passionate about nature, gardening, writing, & photography. I enjoy connecting with people from different cultures through travel, food & music. We have only one planet - we should all do what we can to take care of it.

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