Spring is a season of fresh beginnings, and few things are more rewarding than watching the first vegetables, herbs, and fruits from your garden make their way ...
Imagine stepping into your kitchen, snipping a few colourful petals and adding them straight to a salad, dessert or refreshing drink. Growing edible flowers at ...
Root vegetables are some of the most rewarding crops to grow at home. This is because the edible part of these plants develops underground; a little preparation...
South Africa’s Cape fynbos is best known for its extraordinary biodiversity, but beyond the colourful landscapes and fragrant vegetation, some plants have tradi...
Parsnips are among the most underutilised root vegetables in South African home gardens. They are slow to mature, long in the ground and entirely invisible as t...
Mushrooms are unlike any other food crop you can grow at home. They are not plants, which means the knowledge that makes a good vegetable garden does not transf...
Every gardener has faced the frustration of pests damaging healthy plants. While chemical pesticides may offer a quick solution, trap cropping is a natural and ...
The pip inside a ripe apple contains everything genetically necessary to grow into a tree. The question is not whether it will grow, but what it will grow into....
An organic kitchen garden is a rewarding way to grow fresh, healthy produce while reducing your environmental impact. Whether you have a few containers on a bal...
Growing vegetables is rewarding. Growing them from what would otherwise end up in a landfill? Even better. That's exactly what's happening in Bredasdorp, where ...
