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Strange tastes indeed
24 January 202027 January 2020 Janette Bennett

Strange tastes indeed

Eastern Cape, Food, Garden, Vegetable gardens

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 foraging? Are we yearning for it? “Kowa!” I yell and tip the mushroom to view

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This serious frenzy of making babies
10 September 201224 November 2019 Under the milkwood

This serious frenzy of making babies

Garden, Propagation, Vegetable gardens

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. V also, with his chilli obsession, tries to grow plants from seeds, but sadly, his

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Lemon tree very pretty
25 May 20126 December 2019 Under the milkwood

Lemon tree very pretty

Food, Garden, Vegetable gardens

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 buds, too. This lifestyle we’ve chosen means that I actually have to do something with

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Vegetable meanderings
20 April 201221 November 2019 Under the milkwood

Vegetable meanderings

Garden, Vegetable gardens

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 and I can’t bear a trip into town. The women behind the counter can probably

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On paper
13 April 201224 November 2019 Under the milkwood

On paper

Garden, Reinvention, Vegetable gardens

Usually, we buy three newspapers a week: the Mail & Guardian on Friday, the local Daily Dispatch on Saturday, and the Sunday Times on, well, Sunday. The rest of the time, we read the news online. V uses newspapers, as

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Hot and hotter
10 April 201224 November 2019 Under the milkwood

Hot and hotter

Food, Garden, Vegetable gardens

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 and turns them into sauces of varying heat. And he bakes bread. Chilli plants of

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Easter bounty
6 April 201222 November 2019 Under the milkwood

Easter bounty

Garden, Reinvention, Vegetable gardens

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 of the year. All that quaffing of wine under the trees and around the fire

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Things that slither
2 April 201222 November 2019 Under the milkwood

Things that slither

Garden, Vegetable gardens, Wild things

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 of the vegetable garden – a snake, a long, very thin, green thing with black markings.

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