Visitors to our garden

Wednesday the sun was shining, we had no water since the night before and at 3pm the garden club members were to visit our garden. Just before they arrived the water came back on - what a relief.

  The numbers are growing there must have been 20+ who came. I had planned to create an awareness of the medicinal plants we have in our garden. I had counted at least 30 and there might have been more. The list was too long to show them all, so we walked around the garden, and selected a few to identify, and gave a brief out line of their use. Later we had tea and cake. For the tea I served cold lemongrass tea and mint with green tea served hot.

A few tips - citrus trees favour lavender grown beneath them. Nasturtium's keep the aphids away, garlic is also beneficial planted beneath fruit trees. A few plants of borage planted between strawberries is beneficial to their growth. Coriander seed, sown with anise seed helps the latter to germinate. Tansy repels flies and ants. Cauliflower is known to grow better if there is celery in the neighbourhood. Companion planting is amazing.