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.

Growing sense

Grow to Eat

A potager with purpose • In a region renowned for exceptional food and wine, Farm Lorraine’s flourishing potager offers something equally memorable: a garden that feeds both body and soul.

September

Potted Orchard • You don’t need a massive garden to grow fruit. A balcony, a patio, or even a courtyard is enough.

Adventurous Gardening

Jane’s Delicious September Calendar

Moon Guide for September

Pickled Spring Onions with Japanese Seven Spice • Asian pickling brine is very similar to ordinary brine, but it’s got the added Asian flavours and a mix of seven spices called Shichimi Togarashi – Japanese Seven Spice. These crisp and flavourful spring onions are a great addition to a cheese or charcuterie board.

Tea tree

Some vegetables are pollinated by bats

Ask Anna Anything

Marula magic

Offsets or plantlets

Veggie Sowing Guide

Choosing a tunnel for your garden

October

Growing nuts • Nuts are full of essential nutrients and have a long shelf life. Growing your own just makes sense.

Adventurous Gardening

Triticale

Chia seed to superfood

GROW TO EAT FESTIVAL • at Heckers Garden Centre

Jane’s Delicious October Calendar

Moon Guide for October

Veggie Sowing Guide

Trendy trellises

How to make fermented salsa

Garden party

Ask Anna Anything

November

5 Foolproof vegetable garden pairings • There are certain tried-and-tested planting combinations that just make vegetable gardening that much easier.

Dill • Anethum graveolens is a herb that is not used daily in the kitchen, but is almost essential for many things like ranch dressing, potato salads and salmon dishes.

Pomegranate • Punica granatum is a highly decorative fruit that is as pleasing in the garden as it is in your fruit salad.

Adventurous Gardening

Jane’s Delicious November Calendar

Moon Guide for November

Veggie Sowing Guide

Blossom-end rot

Ask Anna Anything

Dill, olive and feta baked salmon • The combination of dill, olives and feta makes a delicious pesto and goes well with mild-flavoured salmon. This is a quick air-fryer recipe.

December

Grow gem squash • Gem squash gives you the fun of growing squashes without the challenges of the larger members of the squash family. They mature and produce fruit more quickly (10 to 12 weeks) and aren’t as cumbersome as pumpkins or butternuts on the vine.

Adventurous Gardening

Jane’s Delicious December Calendar

Moon Guide for December

COMPANION QUICKIES

Veggie Sowing Guide

Gardening gifts • It’s that time of the year when we have to come up with good ideas for gifts. We have taken the guesswork out of it and present some wonderful gifts for gardeners you can buy online.

Wors Tray Bake

January

Decorative veggies

Sage • Treat them with neglect, and sage will give you seasons of pleasure in the garden and in the kitchen.

Dwarf beans

Adventurous Gardening

Jane’s Delicious January Calendar

Moon Guide for January

TRENDS

Veggie Sowing Guide

Common mistakes to avoid when propagating

SOIL HEALTH

Strawberry salad • It’s not a usual ingredient in a salad, but the sweetness of strawberries adds more depth, and it’s...