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By Andreae C | October 13th, 2011 | Tags: Downtown Dirt, Garlic, greenhouse, greens, growing season, heirloom, Pests, Slugs, St. John's | Category: Picking, Planting 
Well, friends, I had planned to offer you a delightful round-up of what worked and what didn’t in my little downtown garden this year, but unfortunately the cable for my computer has vanished, and the extra cable I keep on hand for such emergencies has had both of its ends filled with play-dough. (Hey, guess what! I found the cord! We have photos!) I have an angry, teething toddler trying to get into my lap, so you’ll have to settle for a photo-less post in list form. Okay? Okay!
Most amazing discovery: the rat tail radish. [...]
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By Andreae C | July 28th, 2011 | Tags: Downtown Dirt, Gardening, growing season, heirloom, Lead, Pests, Planting, Potatoes, safe gardening, Slugs, soil contamination, summer | Category: Picking, Planting 
White cosmos, nowhere near the worm tree
Hello, friends! I had wanted to do a lovely pictorial of all the things growing happily in my garden today, but unfortunately almost everything in the back yard is completely covered in specks of black poo from the millions of tiny worms rolled up in the leaves of my neighbours’ enormously large maple tree, the branches of which now reach almost 2/3 of the way across my back yard. It’s to the north of my garden, so it doesn’t block all the light (although if it weren’t there, I [...]
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By Sarah | September 2nd, 2010 | Tags: Eat Atlantic, heirloom, seed saving | Category: Uncategorized http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy5R-8MIZu8″>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy5R-8MIZu8
Today is Eat Atlantic Day and a resurgence is happening across Newfoundland & Labrador to bring that message home! Inspired by our vibrant provincial food heritage, we’re planting backyard and community gardens, supporting local growers, going to farmer’s markets, restoring root cellars, preserving and canning, and even slowly welcoming chickens and other food animals back into our neighbourhoods. Hopefully it won’t be long before we’ll be able to Eat Atlantic right from many of our community green-spaces.
Root Cellars Rock! wants to congratulate you for all you’ve been doing to Eat Atlantic year-round and to also challenge you [...]
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