Carl Pretorius

Hi Niel. Here is a picture. Looks like this company sells them. http://ikapatrading.co.za/Equipment/
We bought ours 12 years ago or so.

Hi Niel. Glad this has been of interest. The black plastic I used was bought at the local co-op. Black building plastic,  3m wide, 150 micron in 30m lengths. I simply placed this on the ground and put some rocks on to the edges and a few spots in the middle to hold it down in case of heavy wind. Also made sure edges overlapped by 15cm to ensure no gaps. Fortunately we do not have monkeys or baboons close by, so nuts work well. Good luck!

Thanks Rishi. It is exciting. I will keep posting as things progress. Hope some of it helps. Good luck with your project.

Friendly predators are starting to be attracted to the area by the buckwheat flowers. Very exciting to see diversity of plants doing their thing.

Managed to find this product that we have applied to the Acacias that we have planted on the Southern border of our test permaculture site. http://www.biocult.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=93&Itemid=58

Hi Hannes
Did you ever get some info on this? I have just planted some Acacia karroos on the northetn boarder of a conversion i am busy with.
Thanks
Carl

Thanks Burra. Take care.

Here is a Google Earth view of the whole olive orchard (bordered in black+/- 10Ha) with the test/trial area circled in green.

Thanks Tracy.

We started off with an existing orchard 1000m2 in area with 30 Kalamata olive and 11 pomegranate trees. 3 Kalamatas have died, so we have planted the Tarchonanthus in their position. We plan to dig out and bag about 15 of the olives and replace them with a few other trees. These include date palm, plum, nectarine, walnut, neem and lucern tree.

HI Paul

I have created a project. https://permies.com/t/60527/Conversion-existing-olive-orchard-food

Please let me know if I have created it in the correct section i.e. projects. Can it also be linked to permaculture and region?

Many thanks
Carl