Up-skill, your garden needs on it
LANSERIA – 70-year-old gardener aims to share her knowledge and up-skill local workers and beginner gardeners.
Sue Frye, a knowledgeable gardening and landscape enthusiast, believes she was born with a green thumb.
With her parents being avid gardeners, Frye began her career in the gardening industry 30 years ago and became a landscaper in Durban. She then became involved in the Refilwe Project’s community and school gardens in Lanseria, where she now lives.
However, with only a month until her 70th birthday, Frye is taking on a new endeavour – to up-skill gardeners.
She said she feels that every child should be taught how to garden in school but, sadly, it is not part of the curriculum. This is why Frye has made her own basic guide of simple gardening practices through her own experiences. The course covers the basics of watering, pruning, edging, irrigation, planting seedlings and different plants, among other topics.
Frye believes in keeping things simple and adopts this attitude in her gardening. She also wants to use the course to give workers the opportunity to up-skill and have a better chance of employment, to be able to put food on the table and also for her to share her love of organic gardening with other budding enthusiasts.
“People have a false impression that it is expensive to grow organic, whereas I teach [people] to use what you would throw away every day, and it costs nothing to have a healthy garden,” Frye added.
Frye uses two gardens, one in Ferndale and the other in Linden, from which she trains. She runs the course every Wednesday and Saturday. It is a full day course, which costs R350 from 10am to 3pm, and includes tea and lunch. Bookings are essential and at least one day’s notice must be given.
Details: sue.frye21@gmail.com; 084 228 0993.
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