Fall Fair Bulletin for March
As many of you know, our annual Fall Fair is the smallest in Canada (!) and we have tiny competitive categories to show off all our island artwork, garden work and baking and preserves (just like in pioneer days; it's so adorably historical).
In planning your participation you might like to grow some prize winning vegetables or flowers, but be saying: Alas, I have no sunlight, no soil, no plot (and the deer eat all my flowers too!).
Perhaps a solution to your growing needs would be an allotment at the community garden (contact Jurgen G by email to get on the waiting list and/or see what's available) where you could be behind a deer fence in the sun!!
Or perhaps you find that you could indeed use that shaft of sunlight you have to grow some wire or bird-netting protected tomatoes or other container vegetables!
If so, you'll want to know how to get started as March to May are the months of the year to start your vegetable plantings for a September showing.
See the BC Coastal planting guide to know when exactly to plant which food crops for our area:
What seeds can I plant in March?
BC Coastal planting guide (Westcoast seeds)
Allotment co-ordinator email will be on ProIsle,
Community Garden co-ordinator email is at the top of this blog.
Fall Fair Horticulture Categories
“BEST” means best representation of the species
1. Biggest Squash
2. Best Root Vegetable
3. Biggest Zucchini by Weight
4. Biggest Onion by weight (roots removed, tops folded over with elastic)
5. Largest Garlic Bulb by weight (roots removed, top trimmed to 1”)
6. Biggest Tomato by weight
7. Best Potted Herbs
8. Flower arrangement of any variety
9. Single Bloom
10. Best Apple
11. Best Tomato
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Previous "Get Ready for Fall Fair" blogposts:
All the Fall Fair Categories and Events from 2024
Happy planning and planting!
Best, Jen for Digs
