UNICEF’s family garden project
Last week agronomist Taleb BRAHIM, coordinating engineer of UNICEF’s family garden project in the refugee camps of the Saharawis has sent some nice pictures, showing the successful production of vegetables in small-scale family gardens in the camp of Smara (S.W. Algeria) :
Engineer Taleb BRAHIM surrounded by cauliflowers and tomatoes in a desert garden
Cauliflower, lettuce, sweet pepper and young tomato plants grown in the Sahara desert sand
Young red beetroots developing splendidly
Sand underneath the drip irrigation lines treated with the water stocking soil conditioner TerraCottem. Young beans developing well.
A small disk of spineless prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) with new shoots. This cactus if used as fodder for goats, sheep and camels.
