City to hold composting open house
The City of Victoria's composting open house will educate participants on the composting process. Photo © by "bunchofpants" on Flickr.com.
The City of Victoria will host a free composting open house to celebrate Earth Day and plans to distribute “well-composted earth” to attendees.
The event will be held at Beacon Hill Park’s maintenance yard (off of Nursery Road, accessible from the east end of the park) on Thursday, April 22nd between 10AM and 3PM.
The Greater Victoria Compost Education Centre’s Professor Rotter and Dr. Wriggles will attend to educate the public on the composting process and the City’s Integrated Pest Management Coordinator will be on hand to answer pest-related questions between noon and 1PM. Children will receive an “heirloom vegetable seed” to plant and to take home.
For more information, refer to the City of Victoria’s official press release on the event here. To discuss gardening and composting in the Victoria region, click here.
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Mike K.
Aug 20, 2009 at 2:15 pmQuote: The plants seeds spread everywhere. Most animals won't touch them so they continue to grow in numbers.They suffocate the natural species and slowly destroy the ecosystem. Then our taxpayer dollars go towards fixing the mess.
Tropical species are not necessarily invasive and pose no greater threat to the ecosystem than wild flora. As for animals, deer will eat just about anything that they can chew regardless of its origins.
The City has a fact sheet about invasive species and the two biggest culprits are neither tropical nor what your average gardener would ever want to plant.
VicHockeyFan
Jan 11, 2010 at 9:33 pm> The City is offering a course at the Crystal Pool & Fitness Centre on Rainwater Gardens, please post to your member boards.
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> Course description:
> Rainwater gardens are designed to capture and filter rainwater from roofs, driveways and roads. They become attractive landscapes, wonderful habitats for birds and butterflies, as well as helping to protect aquatic ecosystems by recharging groundwater and reducing runoff. Learn how to design and build your garden to capture rainwater including sizing, construction, soil amendments, and plant selection.
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> Please bring a drawing showing the layout of your house, driveway and any other hard surfaces and any sloped areas, as well as the m2 of hard surface.
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> Pre-registration required.
> Saturday, February 6th, 9 am - 12 pm - $35. Instructor: Lehna Malmkvist, Swell Environmental Consulting
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> Allison Ashcroft, LEED® AP, CPA
> Senior Planner - Environmental Issues
> Department of Sustainability
> City of Victoria
> 250-361-0366
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North Shore
Jan 12, 2010 at 2:19 pmQuote:
The City has a fact sheet about invasive species and the two biggest culprits are neither tropical nor what your average gardener would ever want to plant.
Well, how about that! I look at the link, and see the hardy little plant that keeps sprouting up beside my compost heap. Spurge Daphne. Right. Not this spring, you little f#@%er!
Savannah
Jan 13, 2010 at 7:27 pmDaphe's awful. I mean, it's an attractive plant, but it certainly is a good spreader, and it's hard to get rid of. It's all over parts of Mill Hill Park now. I've got it in my yard, and its little baby offspring plants are tough to pull, even when they are only 3-4 inches high. You can cut it and it comes back like crazy.
I do like the looks of the huckleberry from the linked fact sheet. I'd put that in for sure.
Mike K.
Apr 15, 2010 at 3:35 pm...
Quote:City to hold composting open house
By Mike Kozakowski, VibrantVictoria.ca
http://vibrantvictoria.ca/?p=2360
The City of Victoria will host a free composting open house to celebrate Earth Day and plans to distribute "well-composted earth" to attendees.
The event will be held at Beacon Hill Park's maintenance yard (off of Nursery Road, accessible from the east end of the park) on Thursday, April 22nd between 10AM and 3PM.
