May 2022 Issue 162

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Bernie Dinter, Horticulturist and owner of Dinter Nursery

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very year there are more incentives to grow your own food. With raising commodity prices and supply chain issues creating bare shelves in the grocery stores, we need to become more self-reliant. Home grown food is fresher and healthier and gives one a sense of accomplishment. Successful gardening comes from experience, and it is never too late to start.

Planning a Vegetable Garden value crops but cannot be set out until the heat arrives in May. Get a head start by growing them indoors for setting out in space created by early greens being harvested. Alternatively, grow tomatoes in containers with 7 or 10 gallon sizes being ideal for the larger growing plants.

Vegetables can be grown in any location that receives six hours or more of direct sunlight around mid-day. Good soil is important and if not present, can be brought in to supplement the existing garden beds, fill raised beds or containers on sunny decks. If you have a sunny location, you can grow food. Analyze what kind of food you are eating and what can be substituted from the garden. An easy start is salads, with greens such as lettuce, spinach, kale, mustard greens, mescluns and more. Many of these are hardy and can be planted in March with

rotations ending with the last harvest in early December. This is nine months of harvest! Tomatoes top the list of high

If you have limited space, look to crops that you can make full use of and rotate through several plantings. Root crops such as carrots can be seeded twice with the second crop staying in the ground for harvesting over the winter. Potatoes do well in grow bags that free up valuable garden space. Early planting of peas in cool spring weather can be followed by beans in warm summer temperatures. With careful planning a garden can put something on your table year-round.

HOME GROWN FOOD

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• Fruit trees • Fruiting bushes and vines • Vegetable transplants • Seed potatoes • Onion sets and starter plants • Tomato plants • Seeds - a large selection • Seed starting supplies • Soil amendments • Potting soil for seed starting and containers • Fertilizer - all types Catalogues Now Available Serving local gardeners since 1973

www.dinternursery.ca 250 748-2023

5km South of Duncan on Hwy 1

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Cut Broom in Bloom

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May Forecasts

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Community Song Voice Sound Nature Mornings

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pages 74-75

Time for Some Financial Spring Cleaning

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page 72

Stamp Collecting is Alive and Well in the Cowichan Valley

2min
page 73

Imagine Being Given a User Manual for Your Life

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page 69

Transformation Through Movement

2min
page 68

Caring for the Caregiver

2min
page 64

Support our Local Farmers with CSA’s

2min
page 67

Wart did you Say?

3min
pages 65-66

Cowichan Summer Camp Guide

9min
pages 58-63

Planning a Vegetable Garden

2min
page 53

Cedricks Coffee House Helps K.I.D.S

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page 57

Local Food Security - Planning For The Future

3min
page 52

Building a Better World Together

7min
pages 47-49

Understanding the Role of Fungi in Soil Bamboo, a Scourge in the Garden or a Lifeline to our Planet? 48-49

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page 46

Reflexology for Relaxation

4min
pages 43-44

Mother’s Day Gift Guide Celebrating Charmian Horner Co-Founder of theCFLA Garden

3min
pages 40-41

Tour

2min
page 45

Lessons From My Mother

2min
page 39

Hub Spring Sale

1min
page 38

A Gift of Love

3min
pages 36-37

Love’s Triangle

1min
page 35

A Spring Refresh for Your Home Cowichan Family Life Association Garden Tour Revived for 2022 44

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page 24

Ryan McMahon Live at the Chapel

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page 25

A Thriving Arts and Cultural Community

4min
pages 32-33

BC Spot Prawn Linguine

2min
pages 20-22

Yasmeen Olya Community Healing Fundraising

2min
page 29

Grow Your Wine Collection This Spring

2min
page 23

Citrus Spot Prawn Salad

1min
page 19

Farm Table Inn’s Mother’s Day Brunch to go Package

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pages 12-13

May Events

3min
pages 5-7

Ukraine Blue & Yellow the Palette at Rainforest Arts

2min
page 8

CVAC Arts this Month

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page 11

Greener Tea: May in the World of Tea

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page 18

39 Steps Back by Popular Demand

2min
page 17

Cowichan Artisans Spring Tour

5min
pages 14-16

What is Right

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