There is a golf range near our home, its on Main Road and facing the N1. Its been open for about 2 months and there are always people hitting balls. I should have taken a picture of the golf range side. Anyway these pictures are of the area where they will be planting a huge vegetable garden, there will be 3 mandalas (circles) and a kind of a slice of pie at the end (which will be planted with berries). The owners are a husband and wife team, he will run the golf range side and she is a chef and will get the bulk of the produce from her own garden that we will build and plant.
This thursday we went to stake out the mandala's. The biggest circle will be 20m in diameter and the other two, which resemble mickey mouse ears will be about 10m in diameter. Between the ears, olive trees will be planted. I may actually get to learn how to preserve olives!
While doing a walk thru, we passed all these lovely, wild plants. As the digging will be done by hand and not machine, the bulk of these will be saved and planted to another area. As we did the walk thru there was also a nest of some type of ant, it could be a termite? but there were no huge mounds. They were red tho and had big heads. Each ant was about a cm long. Funnily the ants inspired me to start a gardening sketch - scrap book.
Over the pass 20 months I have cut all sorts of gardening articles and this weekly gardening has been one of the best joys and pleasures here that I will try to document the places I have been (compost heaps, nurseries, seed places), the sites built and the people met, hopefully also before and after pictures of the veges! I think I have seen more of Joburg thru gardening in the last 3 months than the first 18 months of being here.
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