Organic Gardening

Arbor Week activities at Kirstenbosch Gardens 1 – 6 September 2013

From Sunday 1 September to Saturday 6 September the first 100 visitors to the Garden each day will receive a FREE Silver Tree sapling.

 
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Aloes in a Fish Hoek garden provide winter colour and entice birds

Aloes  throughout the scenic south peninsula are blooming  in all their red, orange and yellow glory, enticing sunbirds and other winged creatures into gardens.   These are a few of those flowering in my garden at the moment. Once the […]

 
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New Look at Veggies: Plant Tops and Sprouts.

An unexpected & fun outcome of the Soil for Life gardening course was discovering sprouts and that many vegetable tops are also edible. Windowsill gardening ...

 
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Blooming Aliens – threaten South Peninsula

Those  fuzzy yellow blossoms that  covered some of our mountains in early Spring look great from far – but are far from nice… …because they mark a whole new season of invasive plants that will worsen our fire risk, kill our fynbos […]

 
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