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Cooking Compost
The easiest way to think about composting is to pretend you’re cooking a meal for your garden. Let’s pretend you’re making a potjie. As with the real thing, you need to prepare your raw ingredients, put them in the correct container and then let it cook and stew. Before we look at the ingredients and...
What is an heirloom vegetable?
Some authorities say that heirloom vegetables are those introduced before 1951...
Heirloom Vegetables
Vegetables don’t taste like they used to! My Ouma used to grow giant tomatos, almost all flesh with an amazing flavour! What happened to watermelons that tasted like real watermelons and not like mildly flavoured water? You know, green beans never used to taste this bland! How often have you heard these statements? What happened...
Natural Pest and Disease Control in your Vegetable Garden
Controlling pests organically means much more than simply changing the types of sprays and dusts you use. Organic gardeners aim to create a balanced system where pests are regulated naturally and where there is seldom the need to use even the safest organic sprays and dusts.
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