My name is Sean Spender. I'm a permaculture designer and organic gardener. This blog will keep you up to date as I design and implement a series of gardens for sustainable food production and education at Mdumbi Backpackers in the Transkei, South Africa in association with Transcape NPO and funded in part by Voices for Africa choir. The newest posts can be found up here at the top, and the oldest way down at the bottom. (p.s. if you click on the photos you can see them a bit larger)
Sunday, December 26, 2010
How things are looking...
Tomatoes are getting big and ripening...
...but we're getting some cracks in them.
...and a leaf spot that's looking problematic.
A small wire compost bin.
Cabbage and lettuce living in harmony.
The melon pear (Solanum muricatum).
Lazy Housewife climbing bean.
Marigolds around the tomato bed.
Cherry or Strawberry guava (Psidium cattleianum)...
...small but starting to produce.
Bamboo shooting.
The Carob tree seed (Ceratonia siliqua) I collected in Cape Town germinated!
We're harvesting...
...butternut!
And the "wall of waste" is almost filled in.
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