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Blog Pages:
Home – displays series of articles. This focuses on how to grow vegetables, fruits and herbs. The topics include;
- Vegetables
- Fruits
- Herbs
- Insects and other creepy crawlies
- Diseases, disorders & pests
- How to raise chickens: The C Files
- Economic Vegetable Gardening
- Solar Power & Off-grid Living
Here is the score chart I use for the ‘How to Grow’ profiles;
About – A quick summary of where I am, what I do and what this blog is about.
I am migrating content from my old blog @ Blogger – Links to the posts below will be up as soon as the content has been moved to Whisker Flowers. So this section can be seen as a “Coming Soon to Whisker Flowers!”
Article Series: Profiles & articles
Important Gardening Information for Beginners and Master Gardeners
- Pest Control – Photos of prominent pests or diseases of the vegetable garden and environmentally friendly recipes for the control of these pests and diseases
- Edibles – Botanical definitions of fruits and vegetables
- Composting – Nutrition values for certain composting food additions and kitchen food as compost
- Garden Guidelines – Guidelines that apply to all vegetable and fruits all year round
- Garden Helpers – Overview of the animal kingdom and where each of the animals found in the garden fit and how they help to maintain your vegetable garden
- Soil – Information on soil profiles around the world and which are preferable for agriculture and vegetable gardens
- Watering – Hints and Tips on water collection and storage
- Wormery – The low down on keeping earthworms for compost production
1) Vegetables
2) Fruits
- Kumquat
- Apricot
- Tamarillo (Tree tomato)
- Fig
- Raspberry
- Cucumber
- Squash & Pumpkin
- Peppers
- Eggplant
- Tomato
3) Herbs
4) Garden Critters (Biological Control)
- Butterflies
- Lacewings
- Spiders
- Ladybeetles
- Flies
- Wasps
- Praying Mantis
- Amphibians
5) Pests
- Aphids
- Fruit Fly
- Scale Insects
- Caterpillars
- Eggplant Rust
- Pesticide Resistance: Mechanisms & Prevention
- Leafhoppers
6) The C Files: How to raise chickens
- Egg production
- Layers & Nesting
- Housing and Coops
- Reasons for Keeping Chickens
- Feed & Water
- South African Native Chicken Breeds: SISTAS IN DA COOP
7) Solar Power in South Africa
- Part 1: How to go off grid permanently (The System Set-up)
- Part 2: Living with Solar in Gauteng, South Africa (Batteries)
- Part 3: Solar Power in South Africa – Solar & Seasonality (Solar in winter)
- Part 4: Solar Power in South Africa – Capacity, Design & Back-up (System management)
Other articles: Quick infomative titbits (In Order New-Older)
Sustainable, Productive & Economical Vegetable Gardening
- Part 1: Vegetables Worth Growing
- Part 2: Conservation Agriculture
- Part 3: Integrated Organic Gardening
- Part 4: Vegetable Garden Planting Guide & Management
Bees
Insects
- Belenois aurota: The Little White Butterfly
- Insectary: Beneficial Insects and the Garden Security Force
- House Wasp: Beneficial Insect Homes
Animals & WildLife
- Friends of Free Wildlife: The New FreeMe
- Something Special: Sunbirds & Spiderwebs
- Bird deterrent: DIY Bird Deterrent
- Dangers of Snail Bait: Please don’t use Snail Bait
- Wild & Lawn Mushrooms
Vegetable Gardening
- Propagation Alternatives: Honey as Rooting Hormone
- Revisited: Lunar Gardening & Biodynamics
- Penny Royal: The Living Mulch
- Lunar Gardening: Planting by the Phases of the Moon
Compost & Bio-fertilisation
- Kitchen scraps: How to use around in house & garden
- Biofertilisers: Living Mulches & Edible Legumes
- Soil Care : Instant Compost
- Green Manures: Cover Crops & Chicken Green Forage
Weather & Seasons