Growing Carrots
Autumn is carrot seeding season. While in the Lowveld, carrots can easily be grown all year round, from autumn to spring they are just easier to keep an eye on and they are not as likely to disappear under other
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Growing Cucumbers
Although I am one of the most English people I know, I am not a huge fan of cucumbers, at least not fresh ones. I find their taste lingers a bit too long after eating, and that it dominates everything
Growing Snapdragons
Leeubekkies, or Snapdragons (Antirrhinum) as the rest of the world knows them, are the flowers I didn’t know I needed in my garden. They come in the most vibrant of colours, some of which blend into each other, they grow
Growing Butternut
It is without a doubt one of the easiest things to grow, and that feeling of harvesting your first butternut is one of great accomplishment, especially if you have not yet grown anything bigger than a tomato. The first time
Growing Beans
One of the easiest things I have ever grown is beans. I grew them in my first year with a patch, and since then although I have experimented with a few varieties, but my heart is quite content with the
Growing Nigella
Nigella, also known as Love in a Mist, is one of the most unusual and breathtakingly beautiful plants I have ever grown. Everything about this plant is stunning. It has the finest, softest leaves, the most incredible flowers with an
Growing Tomatoes
Whether this is your very first foray into growing some food, or your one hundredth time out of the gate, tomatoes are a garden staple and one of the most ridiculously easy things you will ever put in the ground.
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