ROOT VEGETABLES

Growing carrots in pots and containers is fun, easy, and actually sometimes preferable than growing them straight in the ground: soil, drainage, and spacing issues seem much more manageable! Learn more in the video below!

Rich, sweet, and earthy, beet flavour is in part determined by its levels of geosmin, which Solveig Hanson has researched in detail. In this webinar, recorded on July 29th, 2021, The Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Seed Security learned more about this work, the impact of geosmin and other flavour compounds in beet cultivar popularity, and how to select beets for flavour.

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 but took hundreds of years to become an accepted food, fuelling wars and the expansion of empire. Read about how that story unfolded HERE!

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.

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 carrots locally by the hundreds of pounds. We can do this again. Let’s get growing. Read the article HERE.

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 dressing with soil amendments to maintain soil health and fertility.

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 potato varieties we grow in our gardens. For general understanding this will give you a good start.