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Indoor Gardening: Thanks for the tips, Interweb!

http://accordingtolia.blogspot.com/2009/06/windowsill-garden.html

Unless you garden outdoors in winter, November is typically a month that involves unwinding from the previous gardening season. For me, it was a time to enjoy quiet weekend afternoons indoors, contemplate what worked well last season, and what I will do differently when I garden again in spring. [...]

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We need photos!

RCR Food Skills Workshops

We need your help! We’re looking for photos to use for a free kit of 8 food skills workshop that will be shared across NL! [...]

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Food Skills Workshop Pilot

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On Tuesday, November 22, 2011, Root Cellars Rock piloted its Food Skills Workshop initiative at The Lantern, in St. John’s. The Food Skills Workshops Kit is intended to assist community organizations and individuals who are interested in learning and sharing skills related to picking, planting, preserving and preparing local food. Later this year, FSN will be offering materials for how to host Food Skills Workshops on composting, container gardening, using culinary herbs, preparing local vegetables, seed saving, edible wild plants, safe canning and preserving and root cellars and cold storage! [...]

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Before it’s too late

Plants rooting in water. Photo credit: http://g-cdn.apartmenttherapy.com/1543678/gt_cuttings_rect540.jpg

If you haven’t harvested everything in your garden yet or if friends or neighbours have plants still growing that they’re willing to share, then there are some easy ways to propagate those plants for winter harvests or even to replant again next Spring. Some of my favourites to try this with are… [...]

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New Greenhouse Photo Essay

Tomatoes - July 6, 2011

This is the first post from RCR Committee member Laurie Leehane. Laurie is a visual artist and gardener living in St. John’s and she’s put together a photo essay of her adventures with a new backyard greenhouse and garden! RCR wishes her luck for lots of delicious harvesting throughout the rest of the growing season! [...]

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My front yard grocery store

My "salad bar": a shelf with seven kinds of lettuce

When you garden in the city, you take your sunshine where you can find it. I have a tiny postage-stamp of a front yard, and a decent-sized back yard (for downtown). Neither one of them gets full sunlight, but from mid-June on the front yard gets blazing, baking afternoon light that vegetables seem to love. I had forgotten this when I started my garden this summer. Slowly but surely, though, I’ve been migrating pots and containers to the front of the yard, where they flourish, and scratching my head as I wonder about the best use for my backyard space.

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Confessions of a First Time Gardener

2008: My one great tomato plant.

Hello everyone

My name is Rick Kelly and I’ll be your amateur gardener this year! I’m going to be making posts all season about my backyard garden. This is actually my second year gardening… but last year my whole harvest amounted to about 5 salads and one meal of miniature root veggies. So I’m really hoping to do better this year!

This year I’m armed with knowledge from some workshops organized by FEASt (Food Education Action St. John’s), a lot of advice from friends, and hopefully some advice from you! This can be a space for commenting on any issues facing first time gardeners, or about what I’m doing specifically.

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