5 Ways to Scratch the Vegetable Gardening Itch in Fall & Winter

 Gibby's Garden For those of you that have vegetable gardening in your blood, how do you scratch that itch for wanting to g…

Tips for Making Winter Composting Easier

 Image: Diego Grez /Public Domain  Just because the snow is flying and temperatures are dropping doesn’t mean you can’t conti…

Choosing the Best Location to Start a Fall Compost Pile

 Image: Sten / CC-BY-SA If you’re wondering whether or not you can compost in the winter, the answer is yes and fall is a grea…

Grow Radishes and Carrots Indoors this Winter

Image: MartinKozák via Wikimedia Commons Don’t let winter thwart your love of gardening, especially if you live in a cold climat…

For the love of Mexican food!

There are a few things that really get my tastebuds all fired up. I love love love coriander and I love love mild chillies - Supe…

Seasons come and seasons go

Despite my plans for today, I woke up with a very sore back from my rock climbing this week. Because "Why I Went Rock Climbi…

What's to eat?

I love looking to see what we can eat in the evenings. Last year round this time I had not prepared in advance so most of my vegg…

Hide 'n Seek

I can't believe it has been over a week since my last post. This is primarily due to the fact that my PC was in hospital but …

Small practicalities

There are so many things that can stop me getting into my garden like not being able to find the weeding tool, or a tangled hosep…

Artisan Bread

A few weeks ago I decided to give artisan bread a try. The basic idea is that using their specific recipe you can have no knead b…

We got hail!

Normally this would mean a rush to get bowls out to collect the hailstones, but this time it was a rush to get out asparagus seed…

Carboard box redemption...and seedlings!

I know that my planting ticker on the right column tells the countdown to planting season, but I like to force early germination …

Attracting wildlife

Last summer we had a problem with our squashes not developing. When we starting hand pollinating them we started to get a better …

Yuck -yuck -yuck

Well hardly and inspiring title for this post, especially as it is the first post for August! However I need to shout out my feel…

Winter jobs in the garden

With the warm sun today, even though it is mid winter we all had a hundred things to do in the garden. My husband (being the grea…

Time to plan...

The last two days have been spent travelling to and from Sutherland...the coldest place in South Africa (this morning the temp wa…

Cinnamon scrolls

Today I made bread by hand instead of using my machine. This meant I had to heat the oven and I don't like to heat it up for …

Winter Lemon Pudding

I used 4 lemons tonight for this yummy winter pudding... Mix together 125g butter and 125ml sugar (I used Xylitol) until creamed.…

A simple blessing

I often marvel at God's wisdom in His creation. During winter when colds and flu are more prevalent, He arranged to have the …

Maggot and beetle soup....anyone?

I have shared before about my wasteful ways that I have been addressing over the last year. I have made it a habit to use up left…