Canned Tomatoes
In our household, we eat quite a lot of canned tomatoes. I add it to stews, it is added to Tuscan Chicken, it’s used in pasta sauces, and it is the base of our pizzas. Every month, I would add about 4 cans of
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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 plants. They also taste a
Growing Marigolds
Marigolds were the very first flowers I ever grew from seed, so I suppose I have a never ending love affair with them. I bought a packet on a whim and I’ve had so much luck with them, that I will always grow these blooms.
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 else on the plate. That
Tangy Red Onion and Tomato Chutney
I first stumbled upon this recipe, which I have adapted from FabFood4All , when I was looking for a way to preserve a bunch of Roma tomatoes I had left over from a week’s harvest, and I have got to say, it’s pretty fab. This
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 in abundance in cool and
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 I grew butternut, I grew
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 good old lazy house wife.
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 alien like center, and when
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. My first experience with growing