Dear Readers After more than a decade (10 years wow!) of free food gardening posts for South Africa I have come to the end of this blog's journey. I have successfully saved my old blogger blog Roots and Shoots by migrating to Whisker Flowers on WordPress after Google started culling its traffic. Now I am… Continue reading New Adventures Elsewhere: Retiring Whisker Flowers
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Blog Update & Plans 2019
Whisker Flowers (WF) is my reinvigorated blog inherited from Google Blogger, a move I made because Mr G was stomping the predecessor out of existence due to its search algorithm changes. Considering this continuation, WF is actually going into its 8th year online! Hence, all the thoroughly reviewed content. However, for these 8 years I… Continue reading Blog Update & Plans 2019
Sustainable, Productive and Economical Vegetable Gardening (Part 4): Vegetable Garden Planting Guide & Management
When you consider an ideal vegetable garden I imagine that many of you (as well as myself at one point too) had the following image in mind: Vegetables arranged in neat regimented lines or blocks containing one type of vegetable, perfectly bordered by some type of hedging and clear weed free paths between the planted… Continue reading Sustainable, Productive and Economical Vegetable Gardening (Part 4): Vegetable Garden Planting Guide & Management
South Africa Climate & Hardiness Zones
My research is in Agriculture and as a result I am always on the lookout for climate & agricultural maps of South Africa. The government doesn’t do a good job at updating this information and the weather bureau wants you to pay them a lot of money for such info – on a shoe-string budget,… Continue reading South Africa Climate & Hardiness Zones
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