Last week we introduced the idea of planting just enough for your needs, rather than filling your vegetable patch simply because you can. Some Common […]
Tag: HORTICULTURE
Planning Your Vegetable Garden: Table To Farm
Planning your vegetable garden is key to ensuring a constant and steady supply, hopefully year round, of the fresh vegetables the family enjoys, without facing […]
Aphids – the Bane of the Vegetable Gardener
Anyone who has tried to grow vegetables will know that sooner or later the plants are going to receive some unwelcome attention from aphids. Aphids […]
Impenetrable Hedges
Smallholders are always on the lookout for ways to improve their security and one option is to plant an impenetrable hedge, using shrubs that have […]
Replacing Exotic Trees
The Gauteng Smallholder has written extensively over the years about the challenges we face in dealing with invasive alien plants (IAPs). When it comes […]
The African Potato
The “African wild potato” (Hypoxis hemerocallidea) first rose to fame ~ or was it infamy ~ in 1997 when our erstwhile minister of health recommended […]