Compost Heap
Make your own soil conditioner
Compost is organic matter that has been decomposed in a process called...
Create a garden in a small space
Done in | 2 hours |
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Skill level | easy |
Even if you do not have a lot of space, if your soil is very hard or if all you have is a concrete stoep, you can still grow your own food. Planting in old tyres, buckets or boxes is called Container Gardening. The advantage is that you can move your garden around. It is also less likely that it will be damaged by animals or people walking over it. It furthermore helps to contain the soil, nutrients and water, which allows for better vegetable harvesting.
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Abalimi BezekhayaUse all the things you find around your house and grow vegetables in tyres, bathtubs, broken buckets, wooden boxes and the like.
This can be a plastic bucket, old bath, drum, wooden boxes or even two old tyres stacked on top of each other.
Otherwise your soil will mold.
Make sure that the pieces of green waste are small.
Use more compost if you want to plant heavy feeders, like cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, kale, eggplant, green pepper, tomatoes, rhubarb and onions.
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