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Starting a Vegetable Garden in Soil and in Containers

Getting Started with Gardening Series

Come join us to learn about Vegetable Gardening in soil and in containers from the experienced Master Gardener James Spears and he would share his expertise with us.

Interested to know more about Vegetable Gardening? Come join us to gain insights and knowledge from the experienced Master Gardener James Spears from the Vancouver Master Gardeners Association. He would share his gardening expertise with us.

  Vegetables don’t grow just anywhere. They need the right conditions with some help from vegetable-friendly humans.  Sun, soil, heat, nutrition, and water all in the right quantities make for a healthy crop of fresh produce from May to January. Most farmers cannot afford to go fully organic, but home gardeners have the luxury of spoiling their veggies with organic nutrients.

James loves talking about veggies. Like many gardeners, after 40–plus years of gardening, he finds it difficult to not talk about veggies.

James has harvested (but not limited to) Spanish saffron, wasabi, olives, kiwi fruit, mint, arugula, runner beans, peas, lovage, Jerusalem artichoke, plain old artichoke, cabbage, figs, chives, yellow beans, tomatoes, onions, chard, lettuce, daikon, peppers, grapes, Italian parsley, mizuna and mibuna greens, dill, garlic and regular chives, winter savory, thyme, myrtle, potatoes, eggplant, leek, radish, Brussels sprouts, carrot, garlic, beet, cuke and zucchini, French and dry-style beans, winter (or perennial) arugula, kale, leeks, cilantro, wild celery (par-cel), raspberries, sorrel, salad burnet, rue, red sage, blue sage, pineapple sage, rosemary, curry plant, nasturtium flowers (to eat) and seeds (to pickle), oregano, marjoram, Cuban oregano, and a few herbs or veggies that he has forgotten. 

Registration required. This program will be offered using Zoom. To attend, please register with your email address.

• We will share an invitation to the Zoom meeting by email 24 hours before the program.
• Please contact the Library if you have not received an email.​  We may be unable to email invitations to the Zoom meeting if you register less than 60 minutes before the start of the program.

For more information, please contact Shirley at schan@coqlibrary.ca.

Another related program:

Gardening Q&A: More on Growing Your Vegetables on Thurs, Jul 7, 2:00 - 3:00 pm

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