Virtual Gardening Series: Container Gardening
Channel: Vancouver Island Regional Library
Date: 2022-07-26

For many urban gardeners, small spaces are a fact of life. In this seminar, learn how to succeed with food crops and ornamentals that live in confined spaces. We will cover how plants respond to containers, the most suitable soils to use, special amendments and irrigation needs, and how to choose the best varieties for annuals and perennials. This is not a design course; it is focused on long term perennial plant health and nutritious food harvests.


Jo-Ann Canning is a third generation gardener, who learned from her mother at the family home on Vancouver’s West Side, from her grandparents on their  Fraser Valley truck farm. She draws on over 50 years experience of gardening in climates as diverse as Nova Scotia, the UK, the American Southwest and Rocky Mountains, British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast, and Vancouver Island. In 1996, she received her certification with the Master Gardeners Association of BC. Her articles and photographs are published in local and international magazines, and on the Association’s website.