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Why granny’s tomatoes are great!

By on January 17, 2012 in food

A tomato should  be round and red – right?  Actually, wrong.  Some tomatoes are red and round, others are yellow and oval, while others are lumpy and black.  Tomatoes have been especially bred over the past 50 years to conform to the red and round stereotype (I blame the Americans), at the cost of diversity [...]

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Fair Food | Fresh Produce Grower’s Market

By on January 13, 2012 in food, garden

Fair Food | Fresh Produce Grower’s Market is a direct outlet managed by Newlands Mashu Community Development Foundation (NGO) on behalf of growing numbers of Partner Farmers at the Umbumbulu AgriHUB. Fresh, local, ethical food every Saturday and Sunday @ Tropical Nursery, Durban 9am-4pm. Please support!! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fair-Food-Fresh-Produce-Growers-Market/214335568635822?sk=info

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Veggie Trader

By on December 22, 2011 in food, garden

Hi Sprig Looks like we could have loads of fun with Veggie Trader. I think i am the first to join in eastern cape. Enjoy the holidays! Yours in good growing, Jeannine 

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Cape Garden 2.0

By on December 7, 2011 in food, garden

Howzit again Spriggers, here’s the next instalment in my Cape Garden series. Thanks, Travis Lyle Observatory, Cape Town =========================================================== Ladies and gents, meet my second garden in the Cape. Cape Garden 2.0, in the tradition of my last Sprig garden post. The Wife and I bought a lovely little semi-detached Victorian in Observatory, which came [...]

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Companion Planting Competition

By on November 16, 2011 in food, garden, permaculture

Together with Earthworm Productions, we would like to introduce you to the South African Planting and Companion Planting Guide and give four lucky gardeners a signed copy! Just in time for Christmas…  mol-d Companion Planting is the art and science of growing groups of vegetables, herbs and flowers, to create a diverse, flourishing vegetable garden [...]

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