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26/01/2024

Eat seasonal fruit for the best taste and goodness

Follow this seasonal fruit and vegetable chart for South Africa to eat with the seasons. Save money and eat better quality food. It's simple.

26/01/2024

Eat according to the seasons to benefit from the vitamins in fruit

Follow this seasonal fruit and vegetable chart for South Africa to eat with the seasons. Save money and eat better quality food. It's simple.

22/09/2023

Know how to plant the correct vegetables and herbs together
to protect against pests

08/06/2023

These potatoes are easy to grow from sprouts, So do not throwaway potatoes with eyes or shoots

Sweet potato slips are tiny sweet potato sprouts that are planted to grow more sweet potatoes.  Unlike regular potatoes, where the whole tuber is planted, sweet potatoes are grown from slips without planting the actual

08/06/2023

These little fellas are good for the soil, found under pots and in my worm farm they protect the soil.Read further.

Oniscidae; You may have found them under a brick or a damp object. You may have felt disgusted and wondered why they exist in nature.
Well, let me tell you, these animals oniscidae, better known as cochineal, are a subgroup of isopod crustaceans whose function is to remove harmful heavy metals to the earth such as mercury, cadmium and lead. they contribute to the cleansing of the soil and groundwater and reaffirm the wisdom of nature.
Do not damage them or spray pesticides!

10/08/2022

I hope this will change and we will learn this at school

Read ad-free environmental news: https://gasanature.org/

18/08/2021

Essential to have borage in the garden to attract bees for pollination.

The first area that we started with was one that is very close to our hearts and our ethos here at Grow to Eat – the pollinator garden.

23/07/2021

I don't consider garden work a chore as it gives back so much joy.

Are ju-lying about the state of your winter garden or what’s going on? ✂️🌹
https://www.lifeisagarden.co.za/july-maintenance-checklist/