Why do we consider eating snails from our garden and get excited about finding wild mushrooms? Are we remembering a time when we survived by
Category: Vegetable gardens
This serious frenzy of making babies
My method for rooting cuttings seems to be fairly successful, even with “difficult” plants, but my attempts to get seeds to grow is another story.
Lemon tree very pretty
My lemon tree, slap bang in the middle of the vegetable garden, is a beautiful sight right now. It’s heavy with fruit and full of
Vegetable meanderings
The sign at the side of the dirt road should be warning enough: seedlings are sold here “wholesale to farmers”. But I want seedlings badly
On paper
Usually, we buy three newspapers a week: the Mail & Guardian on Friday, the local Daily Dispatch on Saturday, and the Sunday Times on, well,
Hot and hotter
On weekends, V likes to get busy in the kitchen. It’s his “down-time”, he says. He picks whatever chillis he can find in the garden
Easter bounty
Easter eggs, Swiss chocolate and a house (and garden) oozing with family from all over the place are not the only joys at this time
Things that slither
It’s as I am reaching for the chives that I detect, out of the corner of my eye, a slight movement on the fence