KZN Midlands Properties with Delene

09/04/2026

09/04/2026

With Wakefields Midlands – I'm on a streak! I've been a top fan for 3 months in a row. 🎉

31/03/2026

30/03/2026

With Nottingham Road Hotel – I'm on a streak! I've been a top fan for 22 months in a row. 🎉

23/03/2026

If you want stunning iris blooms every year, then you need to do these six things... (in comments)

20/03/2026

🌙 Eid Mubarak! 🌙

As Ramadan comes to a close , we wish our Muslim clients, colleagues, and community a joyous and blessed Eid al-Fitr. May this special day bring you peace, happiness, and prosperity, surrounded by loved ones and filled with gratitude. ✨💙

Eid Mubarak from all of us at Wakefields! 🏡🌸

20/03/2026

Nasturtiums are a stunning plant that should grow in every backyard. Here's why... (and how to eat every part of this plant)

20/03/2026

Most gardeners use their raised bed for four months and stare at bare soil the other eight. That bed can produce food nearly every month if you rotate crops by season instead of letting it sit empty.

The principle is simple. Different crops want different temperatures. When one group finishes, the next group is ready to go in. The bed never sits bare.

🌱 Rotation 1 — early spring, February through May:

Plant as soon as the soil thaws. Peas, lettuce, spinach, radishes, and carrots all prefer cool weather and will bolt once summer heat arrives. Clear everything by late May, add a couple of inches of compost, and plant the next rotation the same day.

🌱 Rotation 2 — summer, May through September:

The main event. Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, bush beans, and basil go in after last frost. Bush beans can be sown again in July for a second harvest. Pull spent vines in September, add compost again, and immediately plant rotation three.

🌱 Rotation 3 — fall, August through November:

Start seeds indoors in July and transplant in August while summer crops are still finishing. Broccoli, kale, beets, Swiss chard, and green onions all thrive in cooling weather. Kale actually improves after frost.

🌱 Rotation 4 — winter, November through February:

The rotation most gardeners skip entirely. Plant garlic cloves in October — they overwinter and harvest next July. Set out overwintering onions in November. Sow a cover crop like crimson clover on any empty section to add nitrogen and prevent erosion. Add a simple cold frame and you can grow spinach and cold-hardy greens through January.

By the time winter greens and garlic finish, the soil is thawed and rotation one starts again. The cycle closes.

Zones three through five need a cold frame to stretch both ends. Zones six and seven follow this schedule closely. Zones eight through ten can treat winter as a second cool season and grow spring crops from December through February.

One bed. Four rotations. Fifteen or more distinct harvests per year instead of four or five 🌿

05/05/2025