To Tame Me

Since our potatoes in a bag are growing so well, I decided to try grow sweet potatoes too. I cut the bigger ones in half and put them in wat...

Just something I knocked together (pun intended...hehe) the other day with a hammer and a few nails.... It went from this...... ...

Hi all! Sorry I've been away for a while. The Captain and I have been busy again with the kitchen (which I will share with you as soon a...

Another recent purchase from Lee Valley is a  Pot-maker  for making paper pots to start seeds. Once your seedlings are big enough to be tra...

Wanting to grow my own veg at home for as long as I can remember, the day has finally arrived. The Captain ordered a book by Mel Bartholomew...

Aspidistra Garden Centre is one of my absolute favourites in my area. I often go there in search of unusual plants that one will have diffi...

Towards the end of winter I was very excited to get some spring and summer flowering annual seeds in the ground; and that is just what I di...

One of my favourite Spring flowers here in the Western Cape is the Vygie variety .  The Namaqualand region is  rather quite famous for it...

We are SO loving Spring at the moment!! Happy day!

pic from here   I saw these very cute signs on Pinterest here  and since I've decided that we'll be  having a playful and fun ...

I've been wanting to make these for a very long time and the bag of ready-mix concrete was sitting there waiting for me to do something...

A few pictures from one of my favourite sites  Du Côté de chez Vous  , although the pictures are from their Facebook page, here . I lov...

Spring is here, finally!! After a very stormy, cold and wet day yesterday we woke up to a bit of sun this morning.  Happy da...