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Cape Limes?

By via Email on July 18, 2011 in food, garden, tree

Hello, I was hoping you could assist me please. I am looking at growing lime trees for produce in Cape Town. Do you have any idea if: a) It is feasible to grow them in Cape Town? b) What sort of conditions are

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Cape composting

By Shaggy on July 12, 2011 in environment, sustainability

I just found out some interesting info. Did you know that all of the green municipal waste in Cape Town is composted. This is about 800 tons per day. Normally it would have been dumped in a landfill resulting in huge emissions of green house gases, but a company called Soil and More, based here [...]

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Cape Garden 1.0

By Hedmekanik on December 28, 2010 in food, garden

Ladies and gents, meet my first garden in the Cape. Cape Garden 1.0, if you will. We’re in Observatory, so plots are small, but we got lucky with a great courtyard and garden space. Three months after moving in, and having pulled up the masses of weeds which grew during winter’s wet season, my wife [...]

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Recycling old paint & chemicals. Help!

By via Email on October 26, 2010 in environment, recycling, sustainability

Does anyone know how / where to recycle / safely dispose of old paint & chemicals, sealants etc. in Cape Town? I use abundance recycling but they don’t take such things….. I’m thinking if I take it with my charity box to Nazareth House they might just chuck in the trash, which is not the [...]

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I wonder if Table Mountain…

By mol-d on September 22, 2010 in environment, indigenous

will get chosen? Are you having withdrawals after voting in the SA Blog Awards? Here is something else you might vote for… Tourism Minister, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, has urged South Africans to vote in the final round of the New 7 Wonders of Nature contest to ensure that Table Mountain makes it onto the final [...]

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Cape Beauty

By mol-d on August 12, 2010 in flowers, succulent

I have noticed this flower fairly often in the Cape. With its tight buds and sturdy stem, it seems quite different from what one might encounter in Durban. I’m new to the Cape. Does anyone know this plant? Is it indigenous?

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