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.

Next generation foods

Grow to Eat

Barrington’s Cultivating joy, sustainability and culinary delights • Nestled in the picturesque landscape of Plettenberg Bay’s Piesang Valley, lies Barrington’s with its magnificent kitchen garden, restaurant, boutique hotel, craft brewery, bakery and grocer. Connall went to explore.

Raised Veggie Gardens • Part of the beauty of a vegetable garden is its structure. Formal or informal, symmetrical or flowing, it affects our experience of the space. Carefully chosen raised beds can really lift the feeling of a veg garden, as well as making it more practical and user-friendly. Like most projects, they can be as simple or elaborate as you like. They work equally well for small and large spaces alike; it’s just a matter of choosing your size and style and making it work for you.

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April

Exotic fruit • Often associated with tropical lands far from our shores, exotic fruit is often treasured for its distinctive taste. These fruits can also be grown in the right temperatures and humidity with the right soil and care. If your area is limited, they also make excellent potted fruit for greenhouses where conditions can be replicated. These are some of our favourites.

Versatile butternut

Adventurous Gardening

Jane’s DeliciousApril Calendar

Use autumn leaves to make compost • Don’t let your autumn leaves go to waste. Leaf compost is a very manageable and rewarding way to recycle nutrients in your garden and requires less time and preparation than regular composting.

How to make kombucha

Pruning fruit trees

Container care for winter

PEST PATROL Cutworms

Help bees overwinter in the garden

RECIPE

Using trellis panels in the food garden • Two challenges facing gardeners who grow their own food are: how to keep heavy fruiting crops off the soil to prevent them from rotting, and how to provide a suitable climbing structure for vining and climbing crops that require support.

Tree saws

May

Make your soil better • With soil, you don’t have to play with the hand you’re dealt. Here are some ways to stack the deck in your favour.

Golden tansy • Pretty yellow button flowers in summer mark Tanacetum vulgare, an aromatic perennial herb with many uses in the herb garden.

Red onions • Red onions are bright and cheerful, milder than white or brown onions, and a great addition to the winter veg garden once you know how they grow.

Adventurous Gardening

Jane’s Delicious May Calendar

Become intense

Pickled red onions

4 ways to preserve herbs • Herbs are far better when used fresh. However, in the garden, some herbs may be overabundant, and some may be at the end of their cycles. It would be a pity to send these to the compost when they can also be used in the kitchen. Here are our top tips for preserving herbs:

The rules for watering in winter

Sharpening pruning tools

June

Feeding off a wall • Growing food on a wall is not a farfetched idea; it is just vertical versus horizontal gardening when space is at a premium.

Soapwort • Saponaria officinalis is a clump-forming perennial with many uses for health, and is a great companion plant for effective control of certain pests.

Beetroot for colour

Adventurous Gardening

Jane’s Delicious June Calendar

Feed the birds

Codling moth

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