Permaculture programmes and courses at the Durban Botanic Gardens

The Durban Botanic Gardens Permaculture Centre offers a wide range of food garden programmes for young and old. Permaculture offers an accessible and affordable way to grow safe organic food at minimal cost to both one’s pocket and the environment. Find out more about this ‘cultivated ecosystem’ way of designing and growing that is becoming a major part of green design and eco-friendly living. Courses and programmes at the Durban Botanic Gardens will be of interest to the home owner, children, teacher, student, land care practitioner, and community gardener.

Please see below our range of courses and programmes on offer at the Gardens this year - of interest to the home owner, children, teacher, student, land care practitioner, and community gardener.

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Permaculture! Food Garden 2.0

As a follow on from Niall’s post, here is a simple guide to building your own permaculture vegetable garden. It is supereasy and rewarding – here is an update on the food garden 2.0 just 11 days after Niall’s pic:

Food Garden 2.0

Anyhoo, now to the steps…

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Food Garden 2.0

This is our second permaculture bed, raised off the ground and constructed with sheet mulching. Mol-d will be posting a step-by-step guide to setting one up so I won’t go into any details, but allow me to introduce the plants.

Food Garden 2.0

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Seed saving

This year, from our very small and very new permaculture garden, we have managed to save seeds from beans, lettuce and spinach.  There is a great post on Fennel and Fern, with some beautiful photographs, about saving seed to sow the following season.  Click here to read …

Green tea

I got this recipe for a liquid fertilizer from the permaculture course we did at the Durban Botanic Gardens.  Take a bucket of water and soak green leaves (I used comfrey) in it for a couple of days.  The resulting mixture is supposedly rich in nutrients that plants can easily absorbed.  I’ve added it to my sad looking fever tree and will report back as to its health in a week or two.

A bucket of goodness.

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