100 replies to this topic

[todd]

I thought bamboo was one of those renewable plants we were all supposed to be embracing.

choose your bamboo carefully or you might be bamboozled

[dasmo]

Our garden is kicking but this year. I just ate some berries from the current I planted a few years ago. It’s funny because we planted lettuce to distract the slugs and they haven’t touched it.

[Nparker]

I think our cool, damp spring was beneficial for local gardens.

[Mike K.]

Our garden is kicking but this year. I just ate some berries from the current I planted a few years ago. It’s funny because we planted lettuce to distract the slugs and they haven’t touched it.

Try dahlias. They’re irresistible to slugs.

Lettuce is bitter, and not usually top choice for slugs.

[dasmo]

Apparently. This year we didn’t have as many issues. Perhaps all the plucking and chucking last year reduced egg count a lot. Thanks for the tip.

[todd]

Try dahlias. They’re irresistible to slugs.

Lettuce is bitter, and not usually top choice for slugs.

Or just barbeque the slugs.

[Mike K.]

Meanwhile this year it’s been a heck of a year for us with slugs. Finally I got some iron pellets (they give off a pheromone slugs like) and sprinkled them all around the garden. The nice thing about these pellets is they’re not harmful to birds/critters down the line.

Go out and look at your garden with a flashlight at midnight when it’s nice and dark. You’ll see all the critters that impact the garden, which you don’t see during the day. We saw hundreds and hundreds of slugs out and about.

[LJ]

Can't you get the slug bait anymore?

 

It worked pretty good when we had a veggie garden.

[Victoria Watcher]

Countless cobs of sweet corn, beets, carrots, wild and cultivated blackberries and more are being purchased and picked by residents keen to enjoy their annual locally grown favourites.

 

A wet and chilly start to the year pushed crops back two to three weeks, said Clayton Fox, of Silver Rill Corn. “Most farmers have been complaining about the weather this year more than usual. Everything is later.”

 

But now business is a “whirlwind.”

 

“We’ve been keeping up and it has been very busy,” Fox said Monday.

 

A cob of corn is selling for $1.25, the standard at local farms.

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...f-worry-5674572

[todd]

Can't you get the slug bait anymore?

It worked pretty good when we had a veggie garden.

Beer in a cup dug into the ground works pretty good. Should be full of slugs within days

Very humane, i’m sure everyone’s tried that at least once

Edited by todd, 09 August 2022 - 10:53 AM.

[LJ]

We have been to Silver Rill three times so far, plan on many more trips.

[Victoria Watcher]

A new food processing program is launching in Greater Victoria aimed at supporting small, local producers, and the public is invited to check out the facility which will enable it.

 

On Sept. 22 from 2 to 4 p.m., Kitchen Connect and partner organization South Island Farm Hub will be hosting an opening ceremony for their Esquimalt Food Security Distribution Centre and will be showcasing their retail-ready Seasonal Salads products, produced in partnership with Eat Island Grown and the Red Barn Market.

 

Kitchen Connect is working to address food security gaps by building a resilient short supply chain on Vancouver Island. The hub will work with south Island farmers and retail partners to explore and expand business opportunities including bulk washed and certified fresh food sales, sauces, dressings, and soups which will be processed in the new facility.

 

 

https://www.vicnews....pening-sept-22/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 16 September 2022 - 07:54 AM.

[Nparker]

...The hub will work with south Island farmers and retail partners to explore and expand business opportunities including bulk washed and certified fresh food sales, sauces, dressings, and soups which will be processed in the new facility...

At prices competitive with imported products? I'm not paying more for lettuce grown in Esquimalt or View Royal soup.

[Matt R.]

People will certainly pay more and they already do.

[Nparker]

People will certainly pay more and they already do.

I know they do, I am just saying I never would.

[Matt R.]

Well you make it sounds like it’s an outlandish idea that will never work when it’s really just you …

[Victoria Watcher]

People love markets. They will pay very high prices there. So be it.

[Nparker]

I do think many people fool themselves that they are getting quality equivalent to what they are paying for a lot of locally produced products

[Victoria Watcher]

I do think many people fool themselves that they are getting quality equivalent to what they are paying for a lot of locally produced products

Of course. But that’s the nature of sales. Lots of people pay more for inferior products / services for brands or qualities that don’t justify the extra price. But it’s not new or surprising .

Look at designer fashion. Handbags and the like. It’s crazy.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 16 September 2022 - 05:30 PM.

[Nparker]

People should be free to spend their money as they see fit, as long as no one else is expected to subsidize their lifestyle choices through taxes.