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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
$30.00 – $700.00Salt Spring Soil Activated Biochar
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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.
$25.00 – $500.00Salt Spring Soil Vermicompost
$25.00 – $500.00 -
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: 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: Yellow Pear Cherry Tomato
This Heirloom variety produces pale-yellow, soft, mild tomatoes that appear by the hundreds on a tall plant. Colourful in salads, sliced or in preserves. Fruit is sweetest when it just turns from yellow to light orange. Open Pollinated.
$4.75 -
Chorus Frog Seedlings: Tomatillos
A close relative of tomatoes, the 3-4 foot high plants produce copious amounts of 2-3 oz. fruit and should be placed 2-3 feet apart and allowed to sprawl. Harvest when the husks turn brown and begin to open. The bees love this plant! Open Pollinated.
$4.75 -
Chorus Frog Seedlings: Tasty Green Cucumber
These long and burpless English cucumbers are sweet and mild. The beautiful dark green fruits, up to 12″ long, are nicely tapered at both ends and straight when you grow them on a trellis. The vines are vigorous and highly productive. Hybrid.
$4.75 -
Chorus Frog Seedlings: Sweet Million Cherry Tomato
Bright red cherry tomatoes. Early maturing clusters of tiny fruit are well rounded, deep red in colour with a delicious sweet flavour. Tolerance to cracking and good holding qualities. Indeterminate. Hybrid.
$4.75 -
Chorus Frog Seedlings: Sungold Cherry Tomato
Intense fruity flavour. Exceptionally sweet, bright tangerine-orange cherry tomatoes. Vigorous plants start yielding early and bear right through the season. Our best selling cherry tomato. Hybrid.
$4.75 -
Chorus Frog Seedlings: Halona Cantaloupe
A knock-out for aroma and overall flavour. Produces early enough for maturity in our coastal region. Green tinge will turn orange when ripe. Halona cantaloupes have exceptionally good disease resistance, Medium sized.
$4.75 -
Chorus Frog Seedlings: Butternut Winter Squash
Butternut is a medium-sized squash on compact, semi-bush plants. Each fruit has a small seed cavity in dark, thin, orange skin. The flesh is sweet & nutty. Harvest when plants die back or just before frost. Cut, cure, then store. This fruit stores superbly. Hybrid.
$4.75 -
Chorus Frog Seedlings: Black Beauty Zucchini
The standard summer squash, this Heirloom was introduced in the 1920s. Compact everbearing bush plants are loaded with glossy green/ black fruits with firm white flesh. Best eaten when under 8” long. The best variety for freezing. Black Beauty zucchini won the All American Selections prize in 1957!
$4.75 -
Chorus Frog Seedlings: Orient Express Eggplant
Outstanding early productivity. Attractive, slender, 8-10″, glossy black fruits in the long Oriental style. Ready up to 2 weeks before other early varieties, it features an ability to set fruit in cool weather.
$4.75 -
Chorus Frog Seedlings: Hungarian Hot Wax Hot Pepper
An old Hungarian variety that does well in our cool northern climates. Long peppers, banana-shaped, progress from green to yellow to red. Medium-hot. Look great pickled in clear jars.
$4.75 -
Chorus Frog Seedlings: Red Ace Sweet pepper
The extra-early, highly productive bell pepper yields medium-sized, 3 to 4-lobed, green bell peppers that turn red. Has resistance to blossom drop even in adverse weather. Ace commonly produces crops for growers in cooler climates.
$4.75 -
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: Orazio Bulb Fennel
Crisp and flavourful with a nice anise flavor. Due to its heavier bulbs, Orazio has a higher yield potential than flatter, open- pollinated fennels. Suitable for late summer and early harvest in most areas. Cold tolerant in coastal gardens. Beneficial insects love the flower heads. Hybrid.
$2.50 -
Chorus Frog Seedlings: Mouse Melon
A tiny melon from south of the border has been creating a buzz. ‘Cucamelons’ have a unique flavour with hints of cucumber, citrus and green fava bean, not to mention its huge productivity, all conspire to recommend this unusual vine to home gardeners looking for something new to add to their menus.
$2.50 -
Chorus Frog Seedlings: Genovese Basil
Traditional Italian basil. Authentic flavor and appearance. Tall and relatively slow to bolt with large, dark green leaves about 3″ long.
Height 24-30″.$2.50 -
Chorus Frog Seedlings: Dill
Enjoy the scent of the dill seed as it sways in your garden. Dried or fresh, this handy herb is a treat to have in your garden. It’s also a fantastic companion plant for your cucumber plants.
$2.50 -
Chorus Frog Seedlings: Cilantro
Fast becoming one of the most popular fresh herbs. The foliage is called cilantro while the seed is known as coriander. Popular in Mexican and Asian cuisines. Grows in partial shade. This variety is slower to bolt in warm weather.
$2.50 -
Chorus Frog Seedlings: Chives
Hardy and easy to grow, the chopped stems and pink flowers add a fresh, mild green onion flavour to sandwiches, salads, and baked potatoes. Use dried flower stems in arrangements. Chives are an excellent choice for the container herb garden, but make sure to divide.
$2.50 -
Chorus Frog Seedlings: Burgundy Amaranth
Grow these ancient Aztec grain burgundy amaranth plants like quinoa for nutritious, gluten-free grains that mature at the end of summer. Huge plants grow 5 -6’ tall, with flamboyant plumes of attractive burgundy flowers followed by copious white seeds. A show stopper in any garden. The immature leaves are also edible. Open Pollinated.
$2.50 -
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 Sails Lettuce
Stunning, deep-red tints gloss over medium-green, crinkled leaves. The large, open plant is very slow to bolt and holds a long time after maturity without getting bitter. Plant Red Sails loose leaf lettuce all year long.
$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: Fordhook Giant Swiss Chard
Dark green, very savory leaves are borne on thick, greenish-white stalks. This cold-hardy variety is versatile, reliable, decorative and flavorful. It can also stand up well in summer heat. Its leaves rise 24-28 above the ground, with stalks that are wide.
$2.50 -
Chorus Frog Seedlings: Caraflex Cabbage
Extremely uniform, small heads with good wrapper leaves. Inner leaves are tender, crunchy and have excellent, sweet, mild cabbage flavor. Perfect for summer salads, slaws or cooked dishes. In the UK they are harvested early in the season, before they are fully headed and sold as “spring greens”. Avg. head weight: 1.5-2 lbs
$2.50 -
Chorus Frog Seedlings: Asparabroc Broccolini
Sweet, delicate flavor with subtle, peppery taste. The flavor is milder and sweeter when cooked. Aspara-broc is a nutritional powerhouse. This is the same broccolini that has been available in grocery stores in the last few years. Hybrid.
$2.50 -
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.
$2.50 -
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