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.

Happy days this summer!

Something New

A roof-top dream come true… • What do you do if you have no space in your garden to grow vegetables? You grow them on your roof of course!

THE WHITE HOUSE Kitchen Garden

5 Gifts and decor from the food garden • There is so much a food garden can give you besides just something to eat. Here are some ideas for this festive season to make gifts, decorate the tree or add to a festive table.

Garden Helpers • Make gardening simple

Why sow seeds?

Gardens for Growth

VEGETABLES

Pattypans Squash with a Twist

Lemon pattypan bread

Vegetables for hanging baskets

DIY CUCUMBER A-FRAME • Grow your own cucumbers up a trellis with this really easy DIY for the food garden.

Variety is the spice of life

15 reasons why your tomatoes are dying… … and how to fix it

HERBS

Evening primrose

Herbes de Provence • In yonder years, the grandmothers took to the hills in the Provence region of South Eastern France to collect wild herbs to enhance their cooking. Their taste buds and experimentation led to a combination of robust herbal flavours.

Herb infused soaps • Wash away the dust of the day with your homemade herbal soaps.

Wooden herb stripper • If you love cooking but the tedious task of stripping the leaves off your home-grown herbs is a frustration, this DIY is just for you!

FRUIT

Growing Granadillas

COCONUT GRANADILLA CHEESECAKE • Some of the freshest tropical flavours are packed in one with this coconut-flavoured tart granadilla cheesecake. Easy to make and delicious to eat!

5-minute fruit picker • This really easy DIY will have you picking ripe fruit from the higher reaches of the trees in no time.

Sumptuous summer smoothie • Drink your fruit and veg for breakfast this summer.

Be there for bees • Honeybees add so much more to our lives than honey…

Forgotten crops of the “water people” the Ammaqua

3 WAYS with asparagus • Sheet pan dinners are quick and easy to prepare and the combinations of flavours makes individual ingredients blend together for the perfect meal.

How To Start A Straw Bale Garden

What to do in December

So, what’s THE BUZZ?

What to do in January

What to do in February

Urban Gardening with RAW

Gifts for gardeners