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• 11 Mar 2010
  Garlic 1 Garlic and Grace garden
  Starting to sprout
  21°C / 70°F
• 06 Mar 2010
  Sunday veg attempt garden
  Ok, so yesterday I finally got myself organised and planted a few of my new organic onion of florence seeds. Can NOT believe that my veg attempt would start with onions, not my favourite! but apparently now is the time to sow them, and therefore…. I spent this morning sweeping the paving, ...
  Sunny 33°C / 91°F
• 11 Mar 2010
  Spinach Spinach Sprouting and Grace garden
  Starting to harvest young leaves
  Cloudy 13°C / 55°F
• 25 Feb 2010
  Garden pea Garden pea and Grace garden
  Germating. Healthy, problem with birds.
  22°C / 72°F
• 09 Mar 2010
  Carrot Carrot and Grace garden
  Germating Not doing to whell due to heat wave
  22°C / 72°F
• 26 Feb 2010
  Cabage Suger loaf 1 Cabage,Sugar loaf and Grace garden
  Transplanted Strong and healthy
  22°C / 72°F
• 26 Feb 2010
  Heat & humidity 1 2
  Wow, we have just had about 2 weeks of the most unrlenting heat and humidity – being an english rose at heart I have wilted and my poor garden has suffered – the only decent time to garden is at about 6am – by eight its is just to hot – The vegies, salalds and herbs in th...
• 03 Feb 2010
  Sprouts Green peas Sprouting, Green beans Sprouting, Lazy Housewives Sprouting, and Scarlet beans Sprouting
  Backdated….
• 17 Feb 2010
  Flowering 1 Thai Basil Flowering and Potted Veggies garden
  Allowing to go to seed for next season
• 17 Feb 2010
  Basil flowering 1 Basil Red Reuben Flowering
  Both basil types I bought from the nursery are flowering. I’m going to let them seed for next season.
  Sunny 20°C / 68°F
• 17 Feb 2010
  Tomatoes dying off 3 Happy Potted Veggies garden , Bite Size Tomatos Dying Down, Yellow Pear Tomato Dying Down, Tigerella Tomato Dying...
  I’ve been very scarce here! Sorry about that! Seems other things manage to eat up time! My tomatoes in their 20L buckets are dying off. They have a few fruits which I am waiting to ripen before ripping the plants out for this year. Frankly I am amazed that we got anything off them at all! ...
  Sunny 20°C / 68°F
• 10 Feb 2010
  Spreading the Love 4 Very Happy
  A few months ago I wrote to the local garden magazine that I subscribe to, SA Garden, telling them about this wonderful site I had discovered called Folia. Anyway, a few months passed and I forgot all about it, until the other day when my latest issue arrived in the post. I was THRILLED to discov...
• 06 Feb 2010
  Monkey 7 2
  We often have visiting monkeys coming to our garden, the dogs do a good job of keeping them out of the house but I had a visitor to my bathroom a short while ago – he helped himself to my toothpaste and toothbrush and left a trail of dental floss out over the roof – he came back a wee...
• 06 Feb 2010
  The heat Kitchen garden
  Summer has come very late to our part of the world – but the last couple of days it has come with vengance – 38 degrees. The new seedlings are taking strain but hopfuuly they will recover with a bit of TLC and some gentle watering. This growing in pots is a bit new to me, so it is all...
• 01 Feb 2010
  Mad dogs 1
  Along with the normal creepy crawlies who seem to be attracted to the plants in pots – I have these crazy dogs – Maxi will nibble on the strawberries and of course the lemon grass, Finley is hugely attracted to the organic fertilizer and sticks her nose among the greens hunting out th...