Sowing in the mini-greenhouses
posted in: France, Seedlings, Traversine garden - Paris-Bercy
Sowing day at the Traversine … We enrich the soil to prepare the spring sowing
A nursery for Macambeni garden needs
posted in: Macambeni – Piggs Peak, Seedlings, Swaziland
In order to quickly produce vegetables in the garden, a nursery has been set up in the office of Fundzisa Live Association, located near Macambeni. The plants can be grown with better control of the watering needs, and with better … Read More
Agroforestry – Ladysmih
posted in: Agroforestry, Rubric South Africa, Seedlings
On the occasion of the agroforestry training given by APAF in May 2017, a visit was organized to Ladysmith. The children of the Halfway House of Roosboom have set up a nursery and sowed the seeds of fertilizer trees given … Read More
Planting Chaya – Ladysmith
posted in: Activity session, Fertilizer tree, Rubric South Africa, Seedlings
Chaya is a plant of Central America similar to spinach. Chaya is easy to grow in temperate climate. It is tolerant to heavy rain and drought. Propagation can be done easily by cutting 20cm of the stems and planting them … Read More
Lesotho – Preparation of planting fertilizer trees
posted in: Agroforestry, Lesotho, Seedlings
The seeds of fertilizer trees are covered with a natural coat which protects them but which also slows down the germination process. Some seeds require a scarification, which breaks this protective envelope. The seeds of moringa or gliricidia require only … Read More
Sowing in Roosboom
posted in: Rubric South Africa, Seedlings
Preparation of winter seedlings in plastic buckets. The seedlings will then be placed on the garden beds.
Nursery in Swaziland
posted in: Macambeni – Piggs Peak, Seedlings
Fundzisa Live’s garden now hosts the nursery that supplies the various gardens around Piggs Peak Macambeni Garden, Piggs Peak Hospital Garden, and the school gardens, in addition to the local nurseries allready in place in each school. The seedlings are … Read More
Seed harvesting in Roosboom
posted in: Rubric South Africa, Seed harvesting & cuttings, Seedlings
The children harvested the seeds of chard ribs which they let grow seeds in the garden. These non-hybrid biological seeds can be reproduced.
Seeds harvest in Piggs Peak, Swaziland
posted in: Seed harvesting & cuttings, Seedlings, Swaziland
In Piggs Peak, at Fundzisa Live’s garden, the women in charge of Designing Hope’s Garden Project harvest seeds after each season. They keep the best lettuces for instance, let them grow and then move them out of the garden bed … Read More