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

Permaculture food gardening guide for schools

The Imagine Durban project has recently published a permaculture guide for schools, freely available through the Municipality.  Written by Bev Ainslie, the book covers all aspects of permaculture gardening with information on soil, water and seeds.  There are also chapters on garden design, composting and natural pest control.

Hopefully it’ll soon be available in electronic format!

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Durbanville Garden Expo

The forthcoming garden expo and open gardens event will be held in Durbanville on 30-31 October this year. Here is a press release to download.