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When you are on your camping trip, make sure you have your braai equipment with you. Stainless steel braai tools are the best.

Patio. Vegetables You Can Grow in the Shade. Every gardener would like their crops to receive 10 hours of sun every day.

Vegetables You Can Grow in the Shade

And while you can greatly minimize the amount of shade plants will sit in with a little planning, shade is often an unavoidable factor. There's always certain corners of the garden that deal with a fair amount of light limitations: trees, houses, sheds, fences, other crops. But plants need light, right? So what plants are you supposed to stick in these certain corners? Well fret not! As a general rule, crops grown for leaves (e.g., lettuce, chard, spinach) or crops grown for roots (e.g., carrots, turnips, parsnips) will manage in a shady environment.

Needs 2 hours of sun a day Bok Choy - Bok Choy will do great with only short bursts of strong light. Needs 3-4 hours of sun Arugula - Definitely a vegetable to put in shade, because warm weather and full sun makes Arugula want to bolt. Chard - Chard grown in shade tend to be smaller than chard grown in full light, but the leaves will be more tender.

How to Grow a Wire and Moss Lettuce Hanging Basket. Not only is this lettuce and moss basket attractive covered in foliage, texture, and color, it looks good enough to eat.

How to Grow a Wire and Moss Lettuce Hanging Basket

Moreover, it is! This edible container is so lovely it can hang in the front entryway; and, it's fantastic to eat and healthy for you. That's why I love to make these baskets. You can grow them anywhere outdoors as long as it gets full sun to partial shade. This is a great way to grow edibles, even if you live in an apartment or condominium with only a balcony space to grow your food. One of the benefits of lettuce growing in a hanging basket is slugs can't get to them! The down side to wire hanging baskets is they dry out easily. If you don't want to make this stunning basket of lettuce (see directions below), you can always plant your lettuce in beautiful hanging pots and containers. Directions Lettuce Seedlings Most times, I start my own lettuce seedlings, but a good garden center will carry many good varieties in six-pack or four-pack containers. First row.

Recycle Plastic Bottles for the Garden Don't Throw them Away! All those empty plastic water and soft drink bottles that you throw into the dustbin each week - whether separated from other rubbish or not - are best held back for a recycling in the garden for a variety of purposes many of which can save your money.

Recycle Plastic Bottles for the Garden Don't Throw them Away!

Some of our ways of using them are as follows Clodagh & Dick Hanscombe Gardening authors and broadcasters living in Spain. You can visit them and buy their gardening books from Gardening in Spain Growing plants from cuttings Cut the top of all sizes and make a small hole in the bottom and you have a usefully deep flower pot for planting up cuttings from the winter cutback. Moreover if you cut off the top a third of the way down you have a lid that can be taped back on to create a mini green house that will keep cuttings in a constantly moist atmosphere and protected from sold draughts. Heads for scare crows. Telling dogs to move on . Telling white and green fly they are not wanted . Keeping garden twine tidy. Growing vegetables on a mini scale . Vegetables to grow in winter: a how-to guide. With the help of a bit of cover, and carefully selected varieties of seeds, it is possible to grow vegetables and herbs all year round in the United Kingdom, and presumably therefore in other temperate countries that have frosty winters.In my corner of Scotland, away from the sea and up in the hills, there is only one month of the year that can be guaranteed to be frost free and that is July.

Vegetables to grow in winter: a how-to guide

Most years we cannot grow courgettes or runner beans outside without cover. Oca (Oxalis Tuberosa), a vegetable tuber crop from the Andes (known as Yam in New Zealand) South Africa. Best Cooking Spices in South Africa - On The Patio. Fontana Italian Margherita Outdoor Pizza Oven in South Africa - On The Patio. Wood fires change the way you entertain, the way you cook for your family and friends.

Fontana Italian Margherita Outdoor Pizza Oven in South Africa - On The Patio

They remind us of a simpler time when life was a little more laidback, phones were something you had at home instead of in your pocket and filling up with petrol didn’t feel like daylight robbery. The Margherita wood oven’s beauty lies in its simplicity, both in design and functionality, so much more than a pizza oven, it perfectly roasts peppers and veg in minutes and is also ideal for roast meats & breads. It can be used as a conventional oven and reaches optimum temperature in a matter of minutes (10-15 max). It comes pre-assembled, light, highly portable and easy to use. The oven’s inner stainless steel vault, insulated with natural rock wool, makes it highly efficient and ensures that the core temperature is maintained without having to constantly add more wood.

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