Garden Larder ®

I have been thinking long and hard about the direction to take the business. I want to expand the business to include selling plants and flower bulbs. Of course, everything I do will depend on finding a partner for the business and get the use of more land, which has been a bit of a ….  Read More

I LOVE statice. It is, in my opinion, the best filler flower by far. It comes in so many colours as well as having a really long flowering season that I’m amazed that so many florists won’t use it. Anyway, I’m a little late planting but since statice is so tough they won’t really be ….  Read More

Brrr, another frost this morning. I went out to check on what I have to do out in the garden today and to count how many bulb and other flower beds to clear to prepare for spring. Frost on the capeweed driveway next to my flower block. The statice, which is the main flower I ….  Read More

With my freezer full of Winter luxury pie, now I have to find room for the Violina mash. If I didn’t really need the seed I’d just store them in the garage over winter, but customers will be wanting seed before spring. Violina is my favourite butternut type pumpkin, perhaps my favourite of all the ….  Read More

I understand that most of my customers prefer to read about vegetables but at this time of year there isn’t much to report on that front so I’m just updating on what is happening now. I always liked to plant statice in the early spring but the last couple of years I’ve been planting in ….  Read More

With only a month till lily planting, and my florist telling me that she wants gladiolis this coming season, I thought I’d warm up on this cold, showery day by digging the beds for them.Since my soil is very poor sand all the 6m beds are covered with 10cm of commercial compost (I buy a ….  Read More

As most of you know after losing my farm I am now stuck with only a couple of back yards to grow my vegetables in – and now I am growing more and more flowers for the local florist. I still keep getting more, and I don’t know where I’m going to plant everything. I’m ….  Read More

I’m going to be selling seed again as well as my potatoes though it will be on a much smaller scale now that I don’t have my farm. Please check in often to see what’s now. It’ll take a year or two to get a lot of variety of seeds as I need a few ….  Read More