Welcome Gardeners
NEXT EVENT
NHS Annual Spring Plant Sale
Our annual Plant Sale is coming up!
Saturday May 2, 2026 10am -2:30pm
Nanaimo North Town Centre
Short Business meeting following speaker/program.
Social break with goodies $1
Show What You Grow March-November Visitors WELCOME
May Speaker: Dr. Georg Janssen - The Ins and Outs of Biochar
Biochar, a long-lasting soil amendment, elevates the quality of soil by enhancing aeration and water-holding capacity. We are pleased to have Dr. Georg Janssen share the benefits of biochar at our May meeting. In this presentation, you can learn how to use biochar to take your soil health to new heights.
The potential importance of biochar was recognized when anthropologists discovered dark, highly fertile soils scattered throughout the Amazon rain forest. It is speculated that over 2,500 years ago, indigenous peoples living in the Amazon produced the fertile soils referred to as the Amazonian Dark Earths by adding charcoal, a form of Biochar, along other organic residues to the soil. Today, biochar is being created in special devices called Biochar retorts or kilns that enable the creation of optimal conditions for this process.
Georg launched Preterra BioCarbon Solutions after moving to Salt Spring in 2021
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Bring your friends!!
Visitors WELCOME
Entry by DONATION
Open to the Public Gardens Tour – No date at this time
Thanks to all our Gardeners who generously opened their gardens to Nanaimo garden lovers.
Thanks for coming to view the gardens and we hope to see you at our monthly meetings.
What do you do with leftover plants from the sail?.
Hello Barb, The perennial plants are kept for next year. We do have
a couple dozen Tomatoes to give away. I will text you a contact.
We are a couple in our 70’s now living in Saskatoon, with family in Vancouver who have just bought the house and beautiful garden at 2366 Ashley Road. We are looking forward to moving there next year (May 1926). We noticed a 1st Prize ribbon from your Society in one of the sheds. We have limited (also by climate!) gardening experience at our acreage here. With much advice and help, we look forward to planting and tending enough the sophisticated irrigation potting and greenhouse facility to earn an honourable mention,
Hello Erich and Kathleen, I hope you enjoy gardening in Nanaimo when you move here. Hope you will join our garden club when you get settled. And that there are more 1st prize ribbons for your new home. Many in our club made the transition from the prairies so will have lots of advice to share.
Hi — I can’t seem to locate your “Join us” page. I’m not seeing any links from this main page. Thanks!
Are you on a mobile device? It seems to be working on computer mode. Some basic info..New Member – Membership Fees:
Household – $35 Single – $25 Student – $21 – plus name tag magnetic $11 or pin $10. You can come to a meeting and join. $3 to come as guest which can go toward a membership.
Hope this helps.
Thank you! I am looking on my phone, so will switch to my PC for a closer look. Appreciate the information.
Congratulations on all your great work in the community & for local gardeners also! We’ve always loved garden clubs & like gardeners as friends. Unfortunately our health is not great now as we & many other grow old, but that’s ok, we manage to work little miracles in our little gardens now. We always will remember how kind Denise, the club president, was to come to our old but new for us mobile home to give advice. We set up raised beds using concrete blocks & plastic bins on the driveway to grow veggies, with wonderful success; thanks to her adivce. We would love for her to come back here to see 1 year after her visit to see the amazing results (others may get some ideas from it also).
Sincerely, John & Freeman #65-25 Maki Rd. Nanaimo. Please contact us if you want more info. Cheers!
Thanks John, I forwarded your message to Denise. Beryl