This winter I am growing a bunch of different leaf vegetables.  Among these leafy vegetables was spinach, as this always performs well for m...

I grew some purple stemmed Hon Tsai Tai ( Brassica rapa ) this year and recorded the number of days from planting the seed until harvest.   ...

This year, as well as growing the micro dwarf Hedou Bok Choy , I grew a baby bok choy and recorded its days from planting a seed until harve...

I grew a few different Asian vegetables this year.  One that was new to me is a leaf vegetable called Tokyo Bekana.   I recorded the number ...

I recorded the number of days from planting a seed until being able to harvest senposai.  I should probably write another post on senposai a...

Bok choy ( Brassica rapa ) is known for being a fast growing and nutritious vegetable.  Most bok choy varieties are relatively small and goo...

I wrote an earlier post explaining how to grow muscari grape hyacinths ( Muscari armeniacum ) from seeds .  Muscari grow very easily from se...

I planted asparagus seeds on a heat pad under lights, I did not soak the seed prior to planting.  I planted three varieties, Precoce d'A...

Papalo is an ancient herb that is commonly grown and eaten in South and Central America but is practically unheard of here.  Finding seeds o...

Quillquiña (also spelled quilquiña, quillquina, quilquina, and probably a few other ways) is an ancient herb that is similar to papalo.  Whi...

Strawberry spinach is sort of a dual crop, the leaves are edible raw or cooked and taste much like spinach.  The berries look like mulberrie...

Edible chrysanthemum is also known as garland chrysanthemum, chop suey greens, shungiku, crown daisy, Japanese greens, chrysanthemum greens,...

I haven't grown venus flytraps from seed in years.  I used to enjoy it, so I gave it another go recently.  Growing Venus flytraps from s...

When I was young I grew a cape sundew ( Drosera capensis ), it lived for many years and was rather large by the end.  It was the first carni...

This year I grew some buckwheat.   I grew buckwheat mostly for the flowers, it was planted so late that the frost will likely kill it before...

I wrote a guide detailing the vegetable days to harvest from planting a seed .  It has many different vegetables, as well as strawberries an...

I grew some Yin Yang beans this year, they are a dried bean that is one of the most beautiful beans ever.  Days to maturity Yin Yang Bean...

One of the berries I grew this year was a thornless blackberry known as 'Chester'.  Chester is meant to be one of the tastier and mo...

Not many people grow raspberries from seed.  To be honest, unless you have some reason to grow them from seed it is probably best not to.  M...

I was sent a few different varieties of rhubarb seed that was originally collected from different countries. Very few people grow rhubarb ...