Growing their own vegetables was a dream for the Barlows. “I had this romantic vision of a basket over one arm, filling it with the freshest of produce with the other, all to be eaten within the hour,” says a smiling Rozanne, matriarch of the Rustenberg Wine Estate. However, establishing a successful vegetable garden requires a fair bit of effort and more often than not, overcoming a few challenges, particularly if the chosen site for the veg patch was a derelict tennis court.
There was a bit of a false start to begin with. A sunny patch was identified and the gardeners got busy with pulling
