Gardening Info
- **NEW** Nature News Fall 2011 from the City of Victoria. Have a look for Garden Tips and courses offered by the City.
- Greater Victoria Compost Education Centre - Information about composting and organic gardening in Victoria
- LifeCycles - a local organization raising awareness around food and urban sustainability. Want to share your backyard or looking to garden? And much more.
- UBC Botanical Garden Forums - a great place to post questions or find answers to your gardening questions.
- The Organic Gardener's Pantry - South Jubilee resident, Christina Nikolic, operates The Organic Gardener's Pantry site. She sells organic soil amendments and leaf fertilizers. Her site provides valuable observations and information about growing organically. Check out her newsletters.
Permaculture Talk - Quaker Meeting House
Saturday, Feb 4, 2012
Saturday, Feb 4, 2012
Ecology Group of Victoria Friends Meeting invites everyone to a presentation on Permaculture on Saturday February 4, 2012, 2 - 4 p.m. at 1831 Fern Street, Victoria.
Our presenter is Christina Nikolic, teacher with Gaia College, landscape architect, proprietor of The Organic Gardener's Pantry and one of our Jubilee neighbourhood urban farmers.
Permaculture is a sustainable approach to garden, landscape and community design. It applies on any scale, from balcony to bioregion. Christine will focus on the Friends Meeting House garden in the context of neighbourhood.
Admission free. Refreshments available.
Contact Gerald Harris via email (geralddh [at] pacificcoast [dot] net) for more information.
Our neighbourhood has a number of residents who are concerned about the future of food production. Much of our food comes from distant places and relies on cheap shipping to maintain the affordable prices and availability. Is this sustainable? To augment our local food supply, we can look to our yards and boulevards to produce at least some of our own food.
If you live in or near the South Jubilee area and are interested in joining a group of people interested in urban farming or vegetable gardening, please email us for information about our next meeting.
A tower of sugar snap peas along our driveway - about 10ft high and highly productive. They loved the cool weather. August 2011
Flax growing in Barb's front yard for a linen project. August 2011
a survey of 3 gardens
Many of the houses in our neighbourhood were built around 1912. Our lots are small, many measuring only 40ft X 100ft. When I first started to garden I would eagerly buy gardening magazines promising secrets to small lot gardening. HA! Most of those featured "small" gardens were sprawling estates compared to my tiny backyard.
Over the years I have had the privilege of visiting my neighbours and seeing what they do with their compact spaces. This year I thought it would be interesting to look at 3 gardens within a block of one another and see how their gardens grow.
I'm planning to make three visits to each garden over the growing season. Here is what I saw in April 2011 and later in early August.
- Garden #1 - the Driveway
- Garden #2 - Backyard Raised Vegetable beds
- Garden #3 - Backyard Cutting Garden