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All residents with a permanent Tahsis mailing address are eligible to apply for a plot at the Tahsis Community Garden. Message us on facebook or speak with any of the Directors to apply. The garden is located in the mobile home park, 8G Rugged Mountain Road, PO Box 218, Tahsis BC V0P 1X0

Showing posts with label asparagus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label asparagus. Show all posts

Friday, April 21, 2017

Planting Crowns On the Queen's Birthday


We finally got a nice sunny day in Tahsis and the timing was perfect - there were 50 asparagus crowns to go into the 
Farm to School garden. 
 


A last minute call went out to CMESS students and a few were able to participate in the planting with Organic Master Gardener Terry. 



Our resident 'Duck Lady' Juanita, suggested that if anyone had a birthday today, that would be a good way to remember the planting.  Resident 'Corgi Lady' Silvie, piped up, 'why it's the Queen's 91st birthday!'

So we planted asparagus crowns on Her Majesty's birthday - and we even had a (royal) Corgi there to supervise, with Maester Percy the Spaniel as (official) Advisor.  

 

Granger digs in.
 

 Beneath the Holly tree, Natasha planted the primroses that were used to decorate the food table at our AGM.  
The Mason Bees will enjoy these.  

Lining up the planting area as 
Cookie the Corgi circles the group. 

Sweet Percy waits for a treat

Beautiful day, thank you Terry for sharing your knowledge and thanks to the young Tahsites who came out to help.  We'll remember this planting day in the years to come when the asparagus is enjoyed @ Farm to School.  
&
A Happy Birthday to Queen Elizabeth! 


Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Hail Asparagus! ♛

Our shipment of 100 asparagus crowns from West Coast Seeds  has arrived - 50 for the school garden, and 50 for garden members.  It will be two years before our first harvest, but after that we hope the plants will keep producing for years to come. We are planting Guelph Millennium, all males.  The above link will take you to an article all about asparagus.