I have always heard that people tend to water African violets from underneath.  The reason is that any water that splashes on the leaf may m...

Last spring or summer I found a tiny baby fern growing under the trampoline.  There was only one growing there, I looked carefully to see if...

Years ago I had milk kefir grains.  We made kefir most days, and we did this for years.  Other than the cost of the milk, it was very cheap....

I grow a few African violets, I think they are nice little plants.  I tend to propagate them by leaf cuttings, and sometimes seeds or even f...

I received a few emails recently from people saying they were unable to leave comments on my blog.  I'm sorry about this but there is no...

The other day I was doing something in the garden and I moved a pot that was filled with soil.  Under the pot were a few tiny lizard eggs.  ...

Very simple Kombucha (чайный гриб) continuous brew recipe  I wrote an earlier blog post on kombucha SCOBY  and described what a scoby is com...

Hedou micro dwarf bok choy ( Brassica rapa ) is one of the smallest, and fastest growing, varieties of bok choy.  It is sometimes called an ...

For a few years we made чайный гриб (pronounced as chai-knee grib).  This translates to tea mushroom.  The beverage itself is sometimes know...