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.

Welcome

Do you have any tips for saving water in the veggie garden?

Summer 2023

Rebel Gardening

Mediterranean gardens

Spring BASKET

Raising GIANTS • Inspired by its beautiful surrounds, this unique vegetable garden is brimming with health and creativity.

Try your hand at micro-farming! • No matter how small your space is, you can grow fresh produce for your kitchen.

AI The home cooks’ new sous chef

SPINACH BRIGHT LIGHTS

Best of the beets

In the kitchen

Easy BEANS

Bean cuisine

Not your average edible flowers

Nasturtium

Chive blossoms

Calendula

Lavender

Reuse, reduce, recycle • Love the environment and have lots of fun with containers this year.

BECOME A WATER WARRIOR this spring

HERBS

The Biggest and Brightest flower in the garden • Sunflowers, with their heliotropic tendency to follow the sun from morning to night and from east to west by turning their colourful faces, are absolutely fascinating.

Chamomile will make you smile

What the Ashwagandha? • What does lion hunting, Tutankhamun and a smelly horse have in common? Ashwagandha!

APPLES

Blueberry notes from the farm • Thanks to excellent marketing, we all know that blueberries are classified a ‘super food’, with loads of excellent properties for our health. But in their simplest form, they are also incredibly tasty and the hot new crop of South Africa’s export market.

Growing your health, one seed at a time

Grow a loofah • This multi-purpose vegetable is easy to grow and fun to use as natural sponges for the bath.

Subscribe and win! • Stand a chance to win a Cast Iron Potjie No3 from Camp Master.

DIY • How to convert lawn into a productive no-dig vegetable bed

SPRING in a basket • Phindile planted a basket filled with freshness in a few easy steps. This is a great idea for tiny gardens, giving you access to an abundance of spicy leaves and bright edible flowers throughout the season.

SIEVE YOUR COMPOST • We’re always telling you to use more compost in your garden. Here’s a handy sieve that makes it easier.

Contain yourself: Spring is here!

What to do in September

What to do in October

What to do in November

What is Washoku? • Take the Japanese art of culinary excellence in presenting food to its best and the use of fresh seasonal produce at the peak of its taste and health and you have Washoku.