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Posts with Category: Gardening Tips

Meeting April 4th 2019
March 15, 2019

Time:  7 pm. Place: Creekside Commons, 2202 Lambert, Courtenay. Directions.  To reach Creekside Commons from Courtenay, take Cumberland Road, turn left onto 20th Street, then…

Posted In: Education, Gardening Tips, Growing, Monthly Meetings, Past events

Meeting February 7th
January 31, 2019

Our guest speaker for the February meeting was Arzeena Hamir. here are the  meeting notes prepared b y Valerie Bernier. GUEST SPEAKER: ARZEENA HAMIR   -trained agrologist…

Posted In: Education, Gardening Tips, Growing, Monthly Meetings, Past events

Selecting and getting those seeds started.
January 7, 2017

From presentation by Arzeena Hamir. Seed Catalogs - what to look for - The seed catalog companies do not grow their own seeds. They have their…

Posted In: Education, Gardening Tips, Growing, Resources

Saving lettuce seeds
August 8, 2016

Ralph Watts has the following method for saving lettuce seeds. "For some this may be an easier way to save lettuce seed." he says.     Get…

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Tomato pollination and isolation
June 9, 2016

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/can-pole-beans-planted-next-sunflowers-57178.html Link to pollinating tomatoes with an electric toothebrush for better yield.   An Interesting question is whether to isolate tomatoes or not; whether to bag or…

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Seed savers favourite books.
December 4, 2015

At our December 2015 meeting seed savers presented the highlights from their favourite books. Here is the list;  https://cvgss.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ss-books.pdf Happy reading! The owner's name has been added…

Posted In: Gardening Tips, Monthly Meetings

Growing Great Garlic – Talk by Neil Turner
October 26, 2015

GROWING GREAT GARLIC. Speaker; Neil Turner of Amara Farm. Garlic needs a minimum of 3 months of cold temperatures to clove properly and is a heavy…

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Saving squash seeds
July 1, 2015

Squash cross pollinate readily with other squashes of the same variety. They are insect pollinated so the insects are flying quite long distances. First…

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Bag isolation of tomatoes.
June 12, 2015

June is here and the tomatoes are flowering. Time to bag them! Many of us have small gardens and want to grow several types of…

Posted In: Education, Garden journal, Gardening Tips, Seed Saving

Complete Organic Fertilizer
April 3, 2015

Complete organic fertilizer    By popular demand here is the recipe for the Complete Organic Fertilizer and also the enhanced version.

Posted In: Education, Gardening Tips, Monthly Meetings

Kale and lettuce presentation.
February 13, 2015

pdf kale and lettuce  Click here for full presentation. At the February 2015 Seed Saver meeting Terry and Jenny talked about lettuce and kale, with…

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November seed savers meeting
November 2, 2014

Seed Savers discuss Garlic and Compost -Thur Nov 6 Comox Valley Growers and Seed Savers (CVGSS) is hosting a wide ranging discussion for important fall…

Posted In: Education, Gardening Tips, Monthly Meetings

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