NATURE'S bounty
South African Garden and Home|June 2019

Filled with edibles and herbs, this tiny vegetable garden is proof that good things come in small packages.

NATURE'S bounty

In 2004, when Angelika and Iain Edwards built their house north of Jo’burg, the garden was just veld. “But I was determined to grow my own food,” says Iain who has been a keen vegetable gardener since he was a child.

He set about turning a 100m² space into a formal kitchen garden with pathways and rectangular beds. “In those days our friends and neighbours thought us strange. You could see them thinking ‘Can’t you afford to buy your own vegetables?’” he recalls.

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