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Central Karoo District Veld Seed Available We supply indigenous seeds and plants suitable for restoration and improvement of natural veld in the Central Karoo district. We also consult on veld restoration. Seed list Seed success stories Please click on the links for more information about each seed |
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Can’t find what you want? We will grow Central Karoo plants from your seed. Click here to download Guidelines for veld restoration |
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Success Stories and Comments Entomologist and Dung Beetle specialist Prof. Clarke Scholtz has been restoring vegetation during vacations on a degraded farm near Calvinia. He wrote “We had a fantastic start to the season with between 8-18 mm of rain, weekly for 6 weeks (until early July), then nothing since. We have worked out a planting strategy that works well for us – I walk with a hoe and dig cup-size holes and Jenny follows, drops in some seed then kicks the soil back in. When the soil is soft we cover big areas quickly – open areas get grass seed (Ehrharta calycina and Chaetobromus involucratus), and we sow Tetragonia (klappiesbrak) and Tripterus sinuata (karoo bietou) around bushes. The grass and Tripterus germinated well but we’re not sure whether there are any signs of Tetragonia yet.” “The one spectacular success we have had
was to stop sheet erosion at the foot of a koppie – we laid Prosopis
branches [before the summer rains] at 10m intervals across the
flow on one side of a donga. The braches not only stopped the
erosion but slowed the water flow which dispersed seed across
the whole area and collected masses of seed - the layers of
branches are now hedges! The area across the donga that we
haven’t got to yet has remained barren, so we have a perfect
“treatment” and “control”!! “ See The African Dung Beetle Genera” by A.L.V.Davis, A.V.Frolov and C.H.Scholtz http://www.dungbeetlesforafrica.org/new_book.html |
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| The Rufford Small Grants Foundation | The Table Mountain Fund | Plant Conservation Unit (UCT) | WESSA (the Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa) |
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