![]() 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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