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April 5, 2022 | Container Gardens, Root Vegetables |

How To Grow Carrots In Containers – The Definitive Guide

Container Carrots! Growing Carrots in pots and containers is both fun, easy, and actually sometimes preferable than growing them straight in the ground. Soil, drainage, and spacing issues seem much…

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March 11, 2022 | Root Vegetables, Seeds |

Beets: Breeding for Flavour and Colour 

Solveig literally wrote the book (well, the dissertation) on table beet flavour. Rich, sweet, and earthy, beet flavour is in part determined by its levels of geosmin, which our guest ……

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December 18, 2021 | Root Vegetables |

Potato History from the Smithsonian

The fascinating story of how the potato was originally cultivated in South America (where hundreds of varieties are still grown), then made its way across the Atlantic with European explorers…

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March 12, 2021 | Root Vegetables |

Easy Way To Start Sweet Potatoes

In this video, Doug and Stacy, off-grid homesteaders in the US, demonstrate how they create sweet potato slips for planting, sprouting them in water then planting them out.…

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February 26, 2021 | Root Vegetables |

The Basics Of Carrots

This comprehensive article presents the basics, including carrot varieties, carrot cultivation and offers tips for improving your production of carrots.   Here in Newfoundland, we used to produce…

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February 23, 2021 | Root Vegetables |

No Dig Potatoes

In this video, Charles Dowding, the renowned British no-dig gardener reveals how he grows potatoes without turning over soil, thereby saving a lot of work and relying on organic top ……

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February 23, 2021 | Root Vegetables |

Different Types Of Potatoes

There are thousands of varieties of potatoes, and they fall into several general types.  In this video, the main types of potatoes are illustrated and described, and related to common ……

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