Winning letter
78 and gardening up a storm!
Both my wife and I are 78 years old. Two years ago we moved from Pretoria to Cape Town and took occupation of a newly built home on a “raw” erf. The photos show what it looks like now.
We did all of the work ourselves, without any hired help. We are already harvesting guavas, grapes, granadillas, strawberries, onions, carrots, beetroot, lettuce, spinach, peas, beans, tomatoes and lemons. The papayas and blackberries are on their way.
The home came with a grey-water system – I laid pipes to the trees and shrubs. Recently I also installed two 1 000 ℓ water tanks, which contain 1 100 ℓ of rainwater by now.
We are writing to you to prove that anybody can garden – even two old-timers in the city. Perhaps this is water to your mill.
Thank you for a lekker magazine.
Johan and Julia Venter
SUNNINGDALE, BLOUBERG
Thanks for a distilled platteland
Thank you for the Spring 2021 issue of Platteland; and for time and again distilling so much joy and positive developments from the platteland and bringing it to us in the magazine. Once again an exercise in excellence.
Sunita Keyser
BLOEMFONTEIN
For their winning letter, from Sunningdale will receive an Ina Paarman’s gift pack to the value of more than R1 200. It contains a selection of products, a durable denim apron, a stainless-steel rack with 14 spice mixes, and a complete set of Ina Paarman’s for more information and a wide variety of recipes – and do try Ina’s recipe for stuffing roll wrapped in bacon on page 135.
