Basil and Tomatoes go great together in the garden and in a sauce or on a pizza. What is less know and still works great is Basil and Strawberries, tried it this year for the first time and am very happy with the results, great companions, and have had no issues with pests on my Strawberries.
Get on the raw spinach train, supplement it for lettuce, it is tastier and has a satisfying crunch as well, I use the white parts to fill out stews and curries, that way, nothing goes to waste.
Durban gets too hot for beetroot, peas, coriander and such coming into summer. I only grow those in winter - busy harvesting all that right now although coriander has already gone to seed. Our summer crops are usually ones that can take the heat. Enjoy!!
Thank you and keep on gardening and making videos. Regarding the baby marrows.... check out this way of growing them vertically on Epic Gardening: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-drzr7ZJ0B14.html I am going to do this this year and grow more plants.
I love the idea of symbiosis and creating an ecosystem! Can you please also share some suggestions for keeping moles out of the garden?!! Also, I've started composting and would love to see a video on how to get that going and maintain it. Thank you!!
Thank you!! Yeah will definitely do a video on moles! A lot of people have a problem with that pest. I’ve made a few videos on composting, and creating your own too
Brother greetings from Namibia. I started gardening last year and filled lots of beds over 10 with that compost. It cost a bit of a fortune compared to home made compost. Hope you could find some manure, mulch and grass clippings/sunflower plants in river beds to make own compost. I just add pee mixed with weed to fertilize. Otherwise I use redirected water from the shower and basin to water plants, could be quite cheap.
Good time now to start tomatoes, peppers. chillis. brinjals, pumpkins and more. Always find it better to get the little ones a bit bigger before planting in the garden.
@odettemarillier1297 I appreciate you saying that! It feels good that the channel is becoming a community where people share their advice and stories, not only from me but the audience
Always better to start your onions in August so they get a bit of cold and then they bulb up in Spring. For the skinny ones, for now just feed them a bit and leave them, they will bulb up eventually. Onions can take a long time.
I use weeds as fertilizer. A bucket of water, add a bit of bone meal then place these weeds in a sack of onions. Tie the sack and throw into the bucket.close bucket with lidKeep for 2weeks.After 2 weeks remove weeds sack then dilute 1part with 10 parts water. Fertilizer for free 😊
Tomatoes come in all sorts of colours - I'm growing red, "blue" which are sort of purple-black, brown, orange, yellow, white and green! I love Barry's crazy cherry, rodade, oxheart and various others. I always grow way too much tomatoes and don't have place to plant them all out. For your baby marrows - you may want to thin those out - the plants get large and need some space so they don't get powdery mildew sooner than they should. :)
What is this Sir? This randomly grew from veggie scraps i put in the garden. Om starting out amd havent planted anything yet. There was an event and we had alot of veggie scrap and i have a small container for my compost. So the rest i just dug and prepared soil and i put alot of kitchen scrap and covered it.
'Dilly dilly do what it gotta do' 🤣 That got me lol! All really tasty herbs. Do you have any tips on where we can get good seeds & gardening implements?
