Cut Your Losses: Managing Pests and Diseases in Your Food Garden Time: 9am-10:30pm Learn how to identify, prevent and manage common pests and diseases of vegetables and fruit using organic methods. Tips for dealing with common problems, such as aphids, late blight on tomato, root maggots, as well as the latest on managing recently introduced pests.
Resilient Food Gardens for a Changing Climate Time: 11am-12:30pm Due to climate change, extreme weather events reached record levels in 2018. What does this mean for our food gardens? Learn how extreme weather affects plants and how to design resilient food gardens, help plants survive ‘weird weather’ and other management tips that will help you become an adaptable gardener.
Build Fertile Soil in Your Organic Garden Time: 1:30pm-3pm Find out how to build fertile soil, the role of soil microorganisms, soil amendments, the importance of soil pH and how to prepare the soil for a successful garden–without backbreaking work!Build Fertile Soil in Your Organic Garden
Date: April 27th Where: Ucluelet Community Centre
This is a weekend event: see what is up on April 28th with Linda Gilkeson in Tofino.
