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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. [...]
Continue reading The good, the bad, and the ridiculous
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 [...]
Continue reading Downtown Dirt end-of-July update
By Andreae C | May 26th, 2011 | Tags: Cats, Downtown Dirt, Pests, Slugs | Category: Planting 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN2bsJGmtBc”
Often, when I’m reading books and blogs by gardeners, I find myself happy with my lot as a downtown St. John’s veggie grower. Sure, I can’t plant out my peppers until the end of June, but, heck, at least I don’t have raccoons to deal with! Or locusts, or squirrels, or opossums, or deer, or tomato hornworms, or gophers, or so many of the pests that make backyard horticulture maddening for so many people. If I were outside of town, or even a little closer to the city limits, I might have rabbits, and of course you never know when [...]
Continue reading Gardener, know thine enemy!
I built my raised bed last week! It didn’t take too long. I laid out lengths of weed barrier over the space where the bed was going, with a half foot of extra space on each side. I removed all the grass beneath the bed and around it. Some I had removed last year when I was planting right in the ground. We connected all of the sides first, and then put in some posts on the outside to help keep it in place.
Last year I lost a lot of my small potential harvest to slugs! So keeping slugs out is a major goal this year.
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Continue reading Quick Bed Building Update (No Slugs Allowed!)
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