by Eva van Strijp | Dec 4, 2023 | Gardening
Unpopular opinion: “Lazy gardening” often yields the best harvests. Actually it’s more like a time-proven strategy than an opinion… Let some of your plants go to seed. Let them die and fall from the plant and rot into the earth. Plant your winter crops, harvest and...
by Eva van Strijp | Aug 23, 2022 | Gardening, Simple Living
I saw some click-bait this morning about the most “terrifying” aisle at the supermarket. The article was referring to the price of veggies and fruit which went up 7.3% and 3.7% respectively between March and June 2022. I get that it’s fear-driven journalism tactics to...
by Eva van Strijp | Jan 22, 2022 | Gardening
When people see my veggie patch, I’m usually met with comments about how much weeding must be involved. Actually, weeding takes a very small portion of time. I tend to pick a few weeds out each time I walk past so it never feels like an onerous task. What is onerous...
by Eva van Strijp | Nov 13, 2021 | Gardening, Simple Living
Companion planting is a centuries old practice of growing various plants together with the understanding that they will assist each other in some way. Here are some ideas for companion planting around the veggie patch: 🌱 Planting salad greens inside a row of...
by Eva van Strijp | Nov 6, 2021 | Gardening, Simple Living
I was grocery shopping recently and noticed that the price of sage is currently $300 a kilo. Granted, a little goes a long way with sage, but still… $300 a kg! Sage farming sounds like a pretty good business to be in! I’ve got at least a kilo in the garden on a...
by Eva van Strijp | Oct 2, 2021 | Gardening, Simple Living
Recently, I planted some corn seeds in a small box that we put in behind the car port last year. We have a large patch, but I’m always looking for more areas to grow food and I felt this was wasted space and we wanted to put it to use. Here are some before and after...
