It has been some time since I made a post and I apologize for this. I just have not been able to write since our family received the news that my son in the U.K. was rushed into hospital - code blue. He

Some time ago I made a post about harvesting my garlic. Well, It has been curing for the past four weeks and yesterday it was time to inspect the bulbs. I am happy to say the bulbs look lovely and so look

In a previous post I mentioned the planting of my "Chrystal Apple" cucumber - a different variety that produces round, creamy yellow cucumbers. This is a variety that I have never grown before.

Yesterday did not end on a happy note for me. I was sitting reading my book when I heard a woman screaming from across the road "fire fire!!" Then I jumped up to look and saw her running out

This morning I awoke to an overcast day and temperatures a great deal cooler than the last few days. As I sat and had my morning coffee, I looked outside to see a rainbow over Table Mountain - what a beautiful

Eskom our power utility is in a mess and has been for the past decade causing consumers to cope with no electricity for hours at a time. They tell us it is because the coal is wet, or generators have packed

It is always great to be able to go away and have a holiday break, but there is nothing worse to come back to see the plants in the garden either dead or dying due to the lack of water. If you are lucky

Well, summer has arrived - no doubt about it and Cape Town is boasting beautiful blue skies and really hot days. Yesterday was extremely hot and there was no wind at all. This lovely for the holiday makers

Most veggies do very well in containers and this is ideal if you do not have a great deal of space. However, there are some that must be planted alone in a container and not with other plants. The first

I am not sure how many people like a hot chilli - I do enjoy them, although I do not eat too many at one time. However, the other day I picked one to have with my meal, - and well, it was one of the hottest

This is a cucumber that is quite different in shape and size compared with the regular cucumber that we see in the shops. I thought that I would try and grow it - it is called "Crystal Apple"

The wonderful thing about growing your own herbs is that you can pick them fresh whenever needed - not like some that are sold in little plastic sachets in the grocery stores which look rather sad and

I have not done a post for a couple of days - mainly because I lost a very dear friend on monday and so could not get into writing anything at all. I am still trying to process it all but I know these

Perfection - how I would just love my lap top to be working to perfection. Unfortunately, this is not the case, infact it is driving me to distraction -it has become so slow that it pushes up my stress

Tomatoes are probably the favourite vegetable that gardeners love to grow - actually, the tomato is actually a fruit - but that is another story. We love to grow them because they are easy to grow and

At the end of the day, I often walk around the garden to take some photos because the light is softer at that time of day. Taking some close up photos always gives me pleasure and then I can study them

Although I am always glad to see the back of winter and enjoy the transition into spring, I always seem to forget that at the end of spring as we venture into summer, along comes the south easter wind!

Many years ago, while I was staying with my late sister in the Eastern cape, I was introduced to using bay leaves in cooking. In many of her dishes, there was a flavour that I could not identify and which

I have mentioned this in previous posts, but thought that I would just bring it out again. Calcium is important when it comes to growing vegetables and especially for those of you that grow tomatoes and

Today was the day to harvest some of my garlic - there is still more, but I shall wait another couple of weeks for those as they were planted later. The garlic was planted in containers so the bulbs do