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Chorus Frog Seedlings: Arugula
Long, dark, lobed leaves with edible flowers that can be harvested as they appear. Sprinkle them over salads or add to vegetable stir-fries. Flavor is spicy and nutty. Popular choice for brightening up salad mixes.
$2.50 -
Chorus Frog Seedlings: Red Russian Kale
Tender, colorful specialty kale for additions to salads. Stems are purple, leaves are deep gray-green, purple-veined, flat, non-curled and tooth-edged. The plants mature medium-tall and leaves are tender compared to other kales. Grows well year-round.
$2.50 -
Chorus Frog Seedlings: Cabernet Onions
A medium to large sized red onion with deep red coloring. The Cabernet red onion has a rather long storage life at 4-6 months, allowing you to enjoy the flavors this onion brings at all times of the year!
$4.75 -
Chorus Frog Seedlings: Tadorna Leeks
A fall leek that holds quality in the field. A vigorous grower producing a medium-length white shaft and contrasting, upright, very dark blue-green foliage. Holds in the field for fall into winter harvest, and overwinters where winter cold is moderate.
$4.75 -
Chorus Frog Seedlings: Weekly Garden Mix
A weekly selection of Chorus Frog organic starts timed to be planted in your garden for a bounty of your own veggies a few weeks later. Selection will change weekly based on recommended planting times for best growing conditions on the island. It will be a different mix then what’s available for individual sale… a real surprise!
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Chorus Frog Seedlings: Sweet Alyssum
Sweet Alyssum makes an excellent cover crop for weed suppression and for attracting beneficial insects. A very large range of predatory wasp species are attracted to its tiny flowers, and will feed on caterpillars, aphids, and other pest insects while they are in the area. Sow Alyssum liberally between rows of lettuce, carrots, or Brassicas to smother potential weeds and generally improve the garden.
$2.50 -
Chorus Frog Seedlings: Nasturtiums Jewel Mix
The spicy flowers and leaves of this garden companion are edible, even the seed makes a local caper by pickling the seeds. An easy-to-grow plant that actually prefers poor soil. The seeds are fun for children to collect, and the flowers are beautiful in salads.
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Chorus Frog Seedlings: Alaska Shelling Peas
This old heirloom shelling pea dates back to 1880. It’s a versatile, tasty, reliable pea that grows well in cool soil, so it’s great for the north, and has good potential for spring and fall plantings. The short vines grow to only 90cm (36), but benefit from some twigs stuck in the soil for support – or a low trellis net. Once known as ‘Earliest of All,’ Alaska pea matures in just 55 days, making it our earliest pea of all. Expect heavy yields of round, straight, pale green pods, each containing five to eight smooth peas.
$7.00 -
Chorus Frog Seedlings: Super Sugar Snap Peas
The vines are tall, growing about 6′ or more, and need support. Pods are about 3″ long, 1/2″ across, and bear over a long picking period. Both peas and pods are sweet. Yields well in both hot and cold weather.
$7.00 -
Chorus Frog Seedlings: Asian Greens Mix
A mix of Asian greens for your spring and fall salads. Greens may include Komatsuna, Ruby Streaks, Osaka Purple Mustard, Tokyo Bekana.
$2.50 -
Salt Spring Soil Activated Biochar
Introducing Salt Spring Soil!
A new source for local, regenerative soil building amendments to help you and your plants grow abundantly.
Biochar is a carbon rich soil amendment made from burning biomass in a low oxygen environment to create charcoal. The charcoal becomes biologically active when it is added to the soil and becomes filled with soil micro-organisms, water and nutrients. Biochar has an immense surface area and complex pore structure (a single gram can have a surface area of over 1000 square yards). When added to your soil as an amendment biochar increases the capacity of your soil to store water, hold onto nutrients, and support a healthy soil food web. Biochar is incredibly stable, and can last in the soil for thousands of years if undisturbed. This sequesters carbon more effectively than any other method currently in practice.
Benefits of Biochar
- Enhanced crop yields
- Improved soil texture
- Improved soil water holding capacity
- Reduction in nutrient leaching
- Soil carbon sequestration
- Healthier soil food web
Application
Biochar can be added directly to your garden soil, but it is most immediately beneficial if it has been ‘charged’ or ‘activated’ with biological activity first. Our biochar has been activated by mixing it in with high quality vermicompost so it is ready to go straight into the ground. If you are working with your own biochar that needs activating you can do so by adding it to a compost pile, or soaking it in compost tea before applying it to the garden.
Our biochar can be mixed directly into your soil as a light top dressing or it can be added to plant holes before planting. Make sure to water thoroughly after adding biochar so that the life contained in it stays moist and for water to start soaking into it.
For More Information
Biochar: Helping Everything from Soil Fertility to Odor Reduction
Biochar will be provided in reusable white plastic containers. Please return containers to localsalt the following week.
$20.00 – $100.00Salt Spring Soil Activated Biochar
$20.00 – $100.00 -
Salt Spring Soil Vermicompost
Introducing Salt Spring Soil!
A new source for local, regenerative soil building amendments to help your plants grow abundantly.
Vermicompost is a high quality soil amendment created by red wiggler worms as they break down organic matter.
Our team of half a million red wigglers eagerly turn fresh produce scraps and sawdust from a local mill into an incredibly high quality soil amendment bursting with beneficial microbial life and balanced, plant available nutrients.
Benefits of vermicompost include:
- increased nutrient availability
- less nutrient leaching
- improved soil texture
- plant growth hormones and enzymes
- improved plant growth
- increased plant health and reduction in disease
Application
For plants in the ground: gently mix in a sprinkle of vermicompost to the top inch of soil. Water thoroughly after to ensure that the beneficial microbes stay moist and soak deeper into the soil.
For transplanting or potting new plants: mix in a sprinkle of vermicompost into your potting soil.
More Information
https://www.ontario.ca/page/vermicasting-or-vermicomposting
Vermicompost will be provided in reusable plastic containers. Please return containers to localsalt the following week.
$5.00 – $175.00Salt Spring Soil Vermicompost
$5.00 – $175.00