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| A good cup of tea before we start ANYthing |
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Harvesting wood from pruning of coral trees. Useful stuff! Coral trees (erythrina lysistemon/caffra) are indigenous fast-growing and hardy leguminous (and therefore nitrogen fixing) trees. Plant the stumps as a fence and they will start to root - a brilliant natural fence that you can easily maintain.
The smaller branches we cut up to line our first pathways. They break down pretty fast - see below
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| Using branches of coral tree to start terracing bottom of garden to ‘catch’ the soil |
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| Pathways took a while to find. Lots of looking and measuring to find gradient, and then slowly moving over the ground until gradually the beds showed their future selves |
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| Walking-in of paths. A good pair of Wellies after 2 day’s rain will do the trick |
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| Using coral tree branches for pathways |
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| Our muscle man Tim beginning with the first of the beds… |
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| …using raw materials found on site - coral tree branches, rocks and stones dug up, cuttings and prunings as well as leaves raked up from main gardens above site |
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| Taking shape! |
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