square foot gardening

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…

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…

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…

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…

Yay! I’ve successfully grown a store bought Japanese watermelon from seed. If you recall I planted a red “personal” watermelon that is small enough for one person to hold in…

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…

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…

When we visited Japan in June, our Kyoto host mom Haruna made us a simple but very delicious snack of soybeans boiled in salted water in their pods. She showed…