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Each season offers something new in the veggie patch. In spring, big juicy peas, fresh tarragon, parsley, dill, onions, and garlic are ready to be dug up and stored. When we hit the heat of summer, some perfectly ripe tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers

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Aim for a diverse mix of plants in your vegetable garden. Avoid monoculture (planting large areas with the same crop) as it can attract specific pests and deplete soil nutrients. Foster biodiversity; a diverse ecosystem is more resilient and can draw

How it works: Onions, garlic, and other alliums help deter common cabbage pests – including aphids and cabbage worms. Interplanting these alliums with cabbage family crops (such as cabbage, broccoli, or cauliflower) can reduce the risk of pest infest

Homemade Hot Sauce: Blend fresh chillies with vinegar, garlic, and salt. Allow to ferment for added depth of flavour. Sambals: A spicy condiment made from crushed chillies, garlic, and lime juice, popular in many South African dishes. Cape Malay curr

For whatever growing space you have (garden space, balcony, patio, sunny windowsill, or a spot of sun by your door), plan your garden and keep the plan so that in the following seasons, you can institute crop rotation to give you the best production

The combination of smokey bacon, sweet pineapple, and tender ostrich meat creates a flavour explosion! Here’s what you do: Cut the ostrich meat into cubes and marinate it in a Jimmy’s Sauces Steakhouse Sauce for at least one hour or overnight in the

Spring onions can be sown throughout the year. Sow them directly and thin them out as required. Repeat-sow at threeweek intervals. Harvest them about 8 to 12 weeks after planting the seeds. To fast-track your crop, plant commercially grown seedlings

• Plant more seed potatoes and fertilise those you have growing already. Remember to earth them up as they grow taller.• Stake beans with tepees.• Sow sweetcorn, cucumbers and melons.• Plant the seedlings of tomatoes, eggplant and peppers.• Sow sweet

Planting seeds or seedlings in triangles rather than rows or squares will yield a bigger harvest because more plants can fit in the same space. Crops that do not mind touching each other as they grow include salad greens, rocket, spinach, Swiss chard

Borage is a summer annual that grows easily from seed and self-seeds, too! Its small, bright-blue, star-shaped flowers are edible and attract bees. The mineral-rich leaves have healing properties and also benefit the garden as a compost activator. If

Artichokes are short-lived perennials, being productive for only four to five years. If you have established plants, check around their bases for suckers (side shoots) which can be removed to replant elsewhere. Pinching back the shoots of strong grow

If you have your seedling trays at the ready and sparkling clean, fresh seedling mix nearby and feel a tinkle in your fingertips, start sowing brassicas like broccoli, cabbages, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts to have a long and steady supply over w

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