Grow to Eat

Grow to Eat is the definitive seasonal guide to edible gardening in South Africa, brought to you by your favourite gardening magazine, The Gardener. A practical, non-nonsense guide, Grow to Eat is filled with growing, harvesting and cooking tips for seasonal fruit, vegetable and herbs.

Welcome Spring!

When the going gets HOT! • We can all learn a few lessons from those who manage to grow veggies in the desert.

What to do in September

A diverse diet is a healthy diet

Pasta primavera

Paul’s tips for growing peas • Paul Vonk is the Commercial Manager at MayFord Seeds and the current President of the South African Nursery Association.

Spears of green • It may take time, but growing your own luxurious spears of asparagus is very doable.

Growing Potatoes

Pockets of sweet goodness

Unfussy Okra

Johan’s tips on growing okra • Panda from Starke Ayres has a passion for growing and cooking food. Check out his tips for growing okra:

Don’t overlook groundcover herbs for plant health and fragrance

Vietnamese coriander • If you are a lover of all things hot and spicy, here is a herb that, surprisingly, can be added to your arsenal of heat-generating flavours.

The science behind Fertilising

Good buddies tomatoes, basil and sunflowers

Sizzling horseradish

Rhubarb basics

Kathy Varney’s tips for growing rhubarb • Kathy Varney, Marketing and Product Manager for Ball Straathof, knows a thing or two about plants and growing your own. Here are some of her ideas on rhubarb to help you get started.

Fruit trees and cross-pollination • Fruit trees are a fabulous addition to any garden: not only do they add a home-grown element to your table, but they also promote a healthy ecosystem.

5 Fruits for Containers • Growing fruit doesn’t need a huge garden. Here are five fruits that you can grow in containers!

Grow to please • Adding flowering perennials to a food garden is not the frivolous whim of someone who is not taking spinach or tomatoes seriously. Rather, it is elevating the food garden to a higher level of pleasure and land management…

Termites • These pale, soft-bodied winged insects are considered to be the most destructive in the insect world.

Nature’s own repellents • We can reduce our dependency on insecticides by using natural plants to control pests.

Food footsteps replace food miles

Strandveld Foods of the Southern Cape

Rack 'em up • Store your garden tools neatly and efficiently with this mighty simple tool rack.

TIDBITS

Horticultural blunders • Taking recycling to the extreme, a shotgun-toting farmer, growing plants pigheadedly where they don’t want to be, and saving a wildlife family did teach me some life lessons in my rookie years…