Cape Town in bloom

I’m down in Cape Town this week, visiting family and having a break from Durban and work.  And I think I’ve timed it perfectly!  I took a stroll along the Pipe Trail on Table Mountain and the fynbos is in bloom.  Such beautiful, interesting flowers.  I didn’t have my camera with me, but snapped a shot of this fascinating plant with my phone.

Cape Town flora

Another use for sardines

The sardine run has recently hit Durban and people have been pulling sardines out of the sea in bucket loads.  If you’ve ended up with a fridge full of the little fish, and can’t face another sardine meal, then you can use them ‘as fertiliser like them Pilgrim fathers’, according to regular commenter and occasional blogger Khalid.  Anyone tried this?

Permaculture in a pot

After visiting the recent Sustainable City’s exhibition, and seeing the Giba Organics display, I was inspired to set up a permaculture vege patch in a series of containers, with a helping hand from Mr Wooden Spoon.  It doesn’t look like it from the pics, but it was a hella windy day and topsoil, kraal manure and leaves were flying everywhere!

Check out our step by step photo-guide at our Flickr group.

‘misunderstood little gardeners’

Here is a pic, as requested by Pi, of one of the ‘over-enthusiastic and misunderstood little gardeners’ , looking cute and innocent (see evidence of her active side here).

Scout

SA Blog Awards 2010

You may have notice a new button on the right of our blog.  We’ve decided to enter this year’s blog awards and need your help to nominate us.  Click on the button, then fill in your email address and wait for the confirmation email to come through.  Please let us know if the confirmation email doesn’t reach you – Pi is still waiting for it to arrive!