Woman & Home Feel Good You

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Most of us want to feed ourselves the best quality food possible. At one time, that just meant fresh, nutritious and tasty. But these days, you might also think about its provenance. That refers to where a food has actually come from, and more of us

Good Organic Gardening

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Liquid-feed leafy winter crops already growing such as silver beet, spinach, coriander and rocket. Boost with liquid organic fertiliser every 7–10 days. Buy and plant asparagus, artichoke and rhubarb crowns now while deciduous stock is available. The

Garden Gate

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Ah summer, a time when you can sit back, watch your garden grow, and wait for the harvest to roll in. Right? Not quite. While a vegetable garden doesn’t have to be high maintenance, there are a few summer tasks you can do to encourage healthy growth

Good Organic Gardening

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• Reduce mozzie numbers by regularly emptying water in containers and saucers under potted plants, which removes their breeding grounds. Even pet water should be replenished daily to avoid it being used by mosquitoes to breed in. • Stay on top of pes

Good Organic Gardening

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• Where late winter is likely to be warm and frost free (warm temperate and coastal zones), it’s safe to plant out summer vegies. But where the weather remains unpredictable and nights are cold or frosty still (cold temperate southern regions), delay

Good Organic Gardening

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Summer is a time of bounty but there can be seasonal complications from heat, pests and lack of water. Tomatoes may stop flowering when temperatures rise. They also need to be well watered to avoid blossom end rot in the fruit, a calcium deficiency t

Good Organic Gardening

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By Jennifer Stackhouse Plant dormant asparagus, artichoke and rhubarb crowns into beds enriched with compost or aged manure. All are long-lived, producing reliably for years. If these crops are already in the vegie garden, cover with a mulch of manur

Good Organic Gardening

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This is one of the most bountiful times in the vegie garden! Keep picking beans, corn, cucumber, squash, tomato and zucchini. Share, swap, bottle and preserve excess harvest — you’ll be pleased you did when winter hits. As autumn progresses summer ve

Horticulture

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Plant. May is prime time for planting vegetable seeds and seedlings in most of North America. As you plant your family favorites, don’t be afraid to try a few new varieties or crops. I love experimenting in my vegetable plot, and I’m always on the lo

Good Organic Gardening

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The heat may have only just receded but in cool, elevated and inland areas, be on frost alert, especially on cold, clear nights. Frost brings an end to summer vine crops, especially pumpkins, sweet potatoes and chokos. Relegate frost-damaged annual v

Good Organic Gardening

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Maude is a small rural hamlet half an hour northwest of Geelong. There, Anita and Cable Belousoff have worked hard for three years to get their slice of Victoria into shape. The country is rugged and exposed to heavy winds. Summers are hot and dry an

Good Organic Gardening

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By Jennifer Stackhouse It’s important to know whether you’re gardening in a warm temperate or cold temperate part of the country as planting times vary considerably. Where late winter is warm and frostfree (warm temperate and coastal zones), it’s saf

Good Organic Gardening

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Pests and diseases take a break over winter but the cabbage white butterfly is about, as are snails and slugs. Handpick and squash any green caterpillars on brassicas then cover these crops with insect exclusion netting to prevent the adults laying m

Gardens Illustrated Magazine

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It may sound strange, but for me November – far from spelling the end of the season – marks the start of the gardening year. One of the wonderful things about growing vegetables in particular is the regular opportunity it offers to start afresh, to p

Farmer's Weekly

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The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdown regulations left huge numbers of South Africans unemployed, as businesses were forced to downscale or even shut down. Numerous families found themselves destitute, and food security and nutrition suddenly

The Makers

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Produce Swaps are local gatherings where people exchange excess homegrown produce and gardening extras. Items may include fruit, vegetables, herbs, eggs, seeds, seedlings, gardening tips, jars, pots, magazines and worm juice, just to name a few. It c

Healthy Food Guide

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Want to blow out 100 candles on your cake one day? Ditch or cut back on these five unhealthy habits: Experts agree smoking is one of the most prominent risk factors that contribute to premature ageing. Cut back on booze by consuming no more than

Good Organic Gardening

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• Dig up and divide perennial vegies if you haven’t already done so and plant some new ones. Try something different such as Jerusalem artichoke — great for creamy winter soups.• Continue planting brassicas and peas of all kinds to ensure constant cr

Good Organic Gardening

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These first weeks of summer accentuate how vast Australia is — and how varied its climate. In warm northern and coastal gardens, homegrown salads are already on the menu as are fresh fruit salads. In the colder south, salad crops are just beginning t

Good Organic Gardening

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By Jennifer Stackhouse Mozzies spoil time in the garden, especially in late summer. In addition to wearing long sleeves and repellents for protection, regularly empty water that’s collected in containers. This removes breeding grounds and reduces mos

Denver Life Magazine

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Remember when your mom told you not to eat that chocolate bar because you’d get pimples? “Urban myth,” says Healing Roots Natural Medicines Dr. Erika Enos. “Chocolate can actually be great for the hydration of the skin.” Enos, a Colorado-registered n

Good Organic Gardening

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Frances and Jeff Michaels are the heartbeat of the organic gardening supplies business Green Harvest. Their passionate common interest in sustainable food systems, organics and permaculture brought them together some 30 years ago at an international

Good Organic Gardening

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By Jennifer Stackhouse The number-one job is to protect soft vegies (such as tomatoes and capsicum) from fruit-fly attack in fruit-fly zones. These pests become more active and prevalent as summer progresses. Use organic fruit-fly baits or traps and,

Good Organic Gardening

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By Jennifer Stackhouse Late winter is a changeable time. Cold spells can rapidly give way to bursts of warm, spring-like weather. Where late winter is frost-free it’s safe to plant out summer vegies, but where the weather remains unpredictable, delay

Earth Garden

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IT SEEMS a bit bizarre that many of us are so disconnected from our food. We need to food simply to live, but for most of us, we’ve spent years never even knowing how to grow one single thing. Growing some of your own food is something that should be

Good Organic Gardening

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By Jennifer Stackhouse Check the vegie garden once or twice a day as the weather warms up. Look for pests and weeds and crops that are ready to harvest. Take the hose or watering can with you. If a hot day is forecast, water plants early in the morni

Good Organic Gardening

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Edible plants need daily watering while it’s hot, dry or windy. Leafy crops such as lettuce and parsley can bolt (begin to flower and seed) if they dry out while tomatoes often develop blossom end rot, a nutrient deficiency. Seedlings are particularl

Log Home Living

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If you just can’t wait for the delicious bounty of homegrown produce, here are four coldtemp-tolerant vegetables you can plant early in the season. Snow Peas. These sweet greens can be planted as early as you can work the soil. Sow the seeds directly

go: Platteland

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Igrew up in the Platteland, in Rustenburg in North West, and always kept myself occupied playing in the garden. My parents and grandparents were keen vegetable gardeners and I vividly remember pulling up bright, juicy, tasty orange carrots from my Ou

Good Organic Gardening

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Reduce mozzie numbers by regularly emptying water that’s collected in containers and the saucers under potted plants, which removes breeding grounds and so reduces numbers. Even pet water should be replenished daily to avoid it being used by mosquito