How to prevent damping off

Protect your precious seedlings with these green thumb tips

After the exhilaration of seeing your seedling poke its way through the soil, there is nothing more disappointing than having it suddenly topple over and wither away.

http://www.canadiangardening.com/how-to/seeds/how-to-prevent-damping-off/a/20669

Pesticide traces in some tea exceed allowable

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/pesticide-traces-in-some-tea-exceed-allowable-limits-1.2564624?
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Canadians drink almost 10 billion cups of tea a year, but what else is steeping in those cups?
Tea is the world’s most popular beverage, often touted for its healthful properties. Canadians 16 and older drink 83 litres per person every year, a number that has been increasing.

Super Weed; Nettles Are An Early Spring Food

http://growyourowngroceries.org/a-super-weed/

The thought of eating nettles might alarm you, as this plant is especially painful with even the slightest brush up against it. But drying or cooking takes all the fight out of it and what is left is quite an amazing super food. It is one of the first to greens to emerge in the spring and in most places it is coming out right now
http://northernbushcraft.com/topic.php?name=stinging+nettle&region=nl&ctgy=edible_plants

stinging nettle growing in my garden

Saving seed in Newfoundland

http://www.thetelegram.com/Living/2011-10-19/article-2780831/Saving-seed/1

A generation or two ago in Newfoundland, saving seeds from vegetables was pretty run-of-the-mill. Back then, saving seed was about saving money, and about saving time, because you couldn’t always pop down to the nearest store to get some.

I grew these parsnip seeds a few years ago

St. Patrick’s Organic Community Garden

http://rootcellarsrock.ca/2012/07/st-patricks-organic-community-garden

I had the wonderful good fortune of being toured around the St. Patrick’s Organic Community Garden in Carbonear this past Thursday. The garden is almost brand new, launched just this spring. It’s a lovely spot situated on a piece of land that used to be the foundation of a school. After the school was taken down Carbonear gave the community gardeners permission to use the land. The old school and nearby St. Patrick’s Church are where the garden gets its name.

16 Community Gardens in St. John’s!

rootcellarsrock.ca/2013/08/16-community-gardens-in-st-johns

It is so exciting the number of community gardens that are starting up and going strong across the province. We were just doing a count for St. John’s and there are 16 community gardens that we know of in the city! That is AMAZING! Not all of them are open to the public because some serve
smaller communities exclusively.

Where cantaloupe grow

http://www.ganderbeacon.ca/News/Local/2013-10-02/article-3414285/Where-cantaloupe-grow/1

Perhaps Newfoundlanders have been talking themselves out of a bounty of fresh fruit all these years.