10/8/2023 0 Comments Gross beat tape stop![]() ![]() ![]() Sadly, the Sprungs (tent makers from Calgary, really) proved to be faux gardeners, and the N.L. It's been about a year now since since Brian Peckford proudly proclaimed that Phil and Dawn Sprung, whom the premier met while shopping around for cheaper alternatives for rural hockey rinks, could grow a cucumber in six days "using the same technology they have at Disneyland" (where, it's worth noting, everything is pretend). ![]() We are bathed, as Mount Pearl is bathed, in the inflatable greenhouse's ghastly orange light. We're waiting for Kenny Rogers to emerge from the massive glowing dome a hundred metres past the gate. I'm in a tight knot of reporters huddled at the gated entrance to the Sprung Greenhouse. A cold wind tearing down Commonwealth Avenue drives freezing rain through every seam in my jacket.
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