This is the fourth instalment in a five-part series called Fluid Waste Management & Septic Tanks. To read the rest, click here. On a water […]
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How to size, and build, a septic tank
As often as not, septic tank problems arise not because of abuse and misuse but simply because the system is too small for the household. […]
Long Weekend Vegetable Processing
So you know about baby marrows…. This is what they should look like. Get busy and don’t get […]
Channel that Water ~ Create a Mini Wetland or Wild Pond
If your smallholding is anything like ours, given the amazing rainfall we’ve had over the last couple of weeks, there will be areas of standing […]
Tick Bites On Humans
Different ticks carry various bacteria which can cause diseases in human. Tick bites on humans transmit a bacterium from the tick’s saliva. Amblyomma hebraeum (pictured […]
Different Forms of Cultivation
If you can control every aspect of a crop’s existence, how much more efficiently will it grow? That’s the premise behind controlled environment horticulture which […]
Pompom Patrol
Have you done your annual pompom patrol on your smallholding? Now is the best time for it. Pompom weed (Campuloclinium macrocephalum), is a flowering perennial […]
Keeping Emus
For the smallholder who has everything ~ consider getting a couple of emus. Although they can run fast, they don’t need a great deal of […]
Agave Americana ~ Alien, but Useful
Driving round smallholding areas, one notices that Agave Americana is quite a popular succulent. It is not a cactus. According to PlantZAfrica, “Agave americana is […]
Buy Local ~ and Here’s Why
We at the Gauteng Smallholder have for years being despairing over the fact that so little of what we use in our daily lives is […]