Dear Gardening Lover,

Do you want to grow delicious fresh vegetables but not quite sure where to start; or have you tried your hand at growing vegetables in the past and come unstuck?

Growing Vegetables in South Africa is like no other vegetable growing book because it is written in a way that is easy to understand and complete with all the facts you need to know about growing vegetables, without getting too technical and boring. 

If you think that vegetable patches are so ugly that they must be relegated to some corner in the backyard, think again!

When you practice organic gardening together with companion planting; not only will your vegetable patch be pretty, with flowering annuals and herbs growing between the rows of vegetables, but your crops will also be healthy and more immune to pests and diseases. Growing Vegetables in South Africa includes many tips to get you started.

Growing your own vegetables can be lots of fun and is a hobby that the whole family can get involved in; so I have included some interesting trivia just for the fun of it!

Are you concerned that the vegetables you buy may be fed with artificial fertilisers and sprayed with harmful chemical sprays?

By growing your own vegetables you will know that your family is eating organic vegetables that are fresh and packed with vitamins and minerals. Growing vegetables in South Africa includes nutritional information and health-giving tips for common ailments.


Whether you want to grow vegetables in the conventional manner or are keen to practice companion planting and organic methods, this book offers all the information you need to get started and includes recipes for many sprays that you can make at home. Not only are these methods lighter on your pocket, they are definitely healthier.

Do you want to grow vegetables, but space is limited?

A small vegetable patch can produce an amazing quantity of food and every garden, no matter how small, can produce a bounty of vegetables and herbs.  Most vegetables grow easily in pots, so even a tiny balcony garden can produce your family’s favourites. 

In this e-book I have covered all the options available to you in the most simple and easy to read way.  My motto for this book is to “keep it simple!”

If you follow the growing instructions in my book you will soon be harvesting your very first crops and nothing is more rewarding than that first meal, using your own home grown produce.

This book is written for South African gardeners, but the same basic growing principles will apply wherever you live. Only the vegetable varieties and the sowing times will vary.

I hope you will have as much fun reading my book as I had writing it.


A chapter by chapter preview:-
Cool season, warm season and intermediate crops
Perennial vegetables
Root seed and leaf crops
Granular fertilisers
Liquid Fertilisers
Foliar feeding
Crop Rotation
Leaf & stem crops, root crops, fruit & seed crops
Vegetable families
Heavy feeders, Medium & Light feeders
Preparing and planning your vegetable garden
Preparing the beds
Trenched beds
Raised beds
Organic growing
Mulching
Watering
Growing vegetables from seed
Successive sowing
Growing vegetables in containers
Companion planting
Bait plants
Green Manure
Natural Sprays
Sowing Guide

Vegetable Varieties

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