Back. Oh Yes I Am….

So Vivh was right  – I have been hiding under a duvet for the last few weeks. And then I was working on a really big project, and then I was struck down with a horrible cold and sore throat, and am only emerging now from a fug of tissues, Vitamin C supplements, chicken soup [...]

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Garden Bloggers’ Blooms for the New Year

So it’s been a while since I got in on the Garden Bloggers’ Blooms action, and mainly that’s just becuase I’ve been lazy. But, as we’re in the height of summer here in South Africa, and the rains have been quite fantastic, I thought I’d be a proud mom and show off what my garden [...]

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Onions

As a rule, I like letting things go to seed. I like the idea of wild gardens, benignly neglected, where you harvest what you can, but on the whole it’s less about control and more about letting plants do what it is that plants do best. This is why my garden is full of rampant [...]

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Old Shoes and Picture Postcards

Well, unlike lucky-fish Vivh, up here in Joburg we haven’t had a sniff of even the possibility of rain, let alone snow. It’s been cold, windy and dry – truly disgusting Joburg weather at it’s worst. The garden looks like crap – everything is covered in a layer of red dust, and watering in the [...]

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Happy Days!

I’m beaming. Really. The spring is finally, unequivocally here. We’ve had cold snaps (and we may well have another before the end of September – people always mutter about September Frosts) and horrible blustery days, but I think it’s fair to say that the flowers that are in my garden aren’t anomalies. Not for me [...]

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10 days and counting…

Until I leave for Japan! Not forever, mind you, just for a little bit. 10 days, to be precise. Beacause when I’m not blogging about dead lettuces, I do actually work (sometimes) and I’m going for a conference. I’ll be on Hokkaido, the north island, which is apparently very beautiful. The conference is in Sapporo, [...]

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R.I.P. the Salad Bowl

I’m very glad that vivh’s basil is flourishing. I may have to go round to hers and beg some greenery soon, becuase up here in Brixton, there’s nothing but death and destruction, at least in the edible leaf department.
The lettuces I so confidently planted out round about the middle April haven’t just failed to thrive [...]

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May Blooms! Yeah!

I swore last month that I’d be more organised, and manage to get some pics of the garden ready for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. So this morning, as I was drinking my tea, eating my toast and casting my eye over the paper, I realised that it was, in fact the 15th of the month, [...]

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Not Blooming Likely

So today is Garden Bloggers Bloom Day over at May Dreams Garden – a really rad monthly event where garden bloggers post photos and comments about what’s blooming in their gardens on the 15th of every month. Nice idea, especially since you get to see what happening in gardens all over the world, where seasons [...]

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