Vegetable gardening, recycled building materials and water-wisdom
I planned and built a 3 meter by 1 meter vegetable garden in Vredehoek (heavy clay soil), using soil ecology principles. I grew rocket, lettuce, chard, tomatoes and a variety of herbs for my own table and gave away to others. Natural snail repellents were used, picked up here and there, and I watered every three days only, using two watering cans of stood water. I have since been involved with two food security gardens in the inner city of Cape Town. Currently I am once again working on two sandy gardens. One strives for a more local feel, with three types of African fruit trees, including olives, a collection of forty different succulents, a very large raised vegetable bed with dry stone walls (Robben Island slate quarried in the 19th Century, that I saved from being dumped) and lots of painting with the colours of purple, green and grey vegetation and the colours of stone, brick and aged lime cement, which herbs like rosemary, thyme and oregano just love
Here you can see pictures of my partner's square foot garden in Goodwood
http://www.worm-composting-help.com/square-foot-gardening.html
and here the one I made in Oranjezicht
http://www.worm-composting-help.com/carolines-square-foot-garden.html
two food security projects I learned about and worked a few days on in the very early stages of development due to my sister's involvement firstly in Oranjezicht for another group who had been campaigning for years
www.ozcf.co.za
and then the garden she was in from the beginning, which is driven forward by a group of young gardeners
//www.facebook.com/tyisanabanye
I planned and built a 3 meter by 1 meter vegetable garden in Vredehoek (heavy clay soil), using soil ecology principles. I grew rocket, lettuce, chard, tomatoes and a variety of herbs for my own table and gave away to others. Natural snail repellents were used, picked up here and there, and I watered every three days only, using two watering cans of stood water. I have since been involved with two food security gardens in the inner city of Cape Town. Currently I am once again working on two sandy gardens. One strives for a more local feel, with three types of African fruit trees, including olives, a collection of forty different succulents, a very large raised vegetable bed with dry stone walls (Robben Island slate quarried in the 19th Century, that I saved from being dumped) and lots of painting with the colours of purple, green and grey vegetation and the colours of stone, brick and aged lime cement, which herbs like rosemary, thyme and oregano just love
Here you can see pictures of my partner's square foot garden in Goodwood
http://www.worm-composting-help.com/square-foot-gardening.html
and here the one I made in Oranjezicht
http://www.worm-composting-help.com/carolines-square-foot-garden.html
two food security projects I learned about and worked a few days on in the very early stages of development due to my sister's involvement firstly in Oranjezicht for another group who had been campaigning for years
www.ozcf.co.za
and then the garden she was in from the beginning, which is driven forward by a group of young gardeners
//www.facebook.com/tyisanabanye