by Geeks on the Beach | Dec 10, 2024 | Garden Gleanings
›› Kayla Siefried If you’re the gardening type, it’s likely you’ve already laid your garden beds to rest for the fall covering them with a deep mulch of deciduous leaves or straw. This protects the soil from wind and rain erosion, from dramatic temperature swings,...
by Geeks on the Beach | Feb 9, 2024 | news
>> Jesse Wallis This time of year calls for patience & stillness; the garden beds are in deep freeze, the soil life paused and resting before the stirrings of warmer days ahead. The period between the Solstice and the lengthening of daylight in Spring can...
by Geeks on the Beach | Feb 9, 2024 | Garden Gleanings
>> Zoe-Blue Coates In the late spring and early summer of 2023, it felt like every plant and surface in the Compost Education Centre teaching gardens had a stink bug on it. The early warm and dry weather provided the perfect conditions for stink bugs to thrive....
by Geeks on the Beach | Oct 11, 2023 | news
>> Kayla Siefried Welcome October! I must admit, it’s hard for me, a person who absolutely thrives in summer, to be so welcoming of October, a month so classically representative of autumn. And yet, this year, I’m so ready. I’m ready to finish the harvest...
by Geeks on the Beach | Aug 1, 2023 | Garden Gleanings
The dog days of summer—long sunny evenings, warm temperatures, swimming, vacations, and… drought ›› Kayla Siefried, Compost Education Centre While we here in Victoria have had cool-ish evenings and skies clear of smoke, if you tune into any news you’re bound to...
