Tuesday 2 April 2024
Fish and Chinese water chestnuts
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Years ago it used to be common to read on permaculture sites how people would grow Chinese water chestnuts ( Eleocharis dulcis ) in those pl...
Thursday 28 March 2024
Johnny jump up
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Back in 2019 I bought some seeds of a flower called 'Johnny Jump up' or 'Heartsease' ( Viola tricolor ). It is one of the w...
Saturday 23 March 2024
Super leuco - seed grown pitcher plants
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A few years ago, a grower friend sent me some seeds as a surprise (thanks Beauze). There were some really amazing seeds in there. I was de...
Thursday 21 March 2024
Arizona snowcap cactus
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When I was in high school I bought a small cactus, at the time it had a label that called it something along the lines of 'Snowy'. ...
Friday 15 March 2024
Liverworts
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I like liverworts, they are interesting little plants. They don't have a significant economic importance, and they are small, so mostly...
Friday 8 March 2024
Asparagus seed germination
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I wrote in an earlier post about saving asparagus seed from my purple asparagus plants . It was a bit of work, but the result was worth the...
Friday 1 March 2024
Asparagus seed saving
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I have grown asparagus ( Asparagus officinalis ) from seed many times. Growing from sed is fiddly and takes time. It takes a few years to ...
Friday 23 February 2024
Zolotoe serdtse tomato
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This year I grew a tomato called Zolotoe serdtse (золотое сердце), this roughly translates to something along the lines of golden heart, or ...
Monday 19 February 2024
Igloo tomatoes
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One of my first attempts at breeding tomatoes is also one of my best. This project began when I was in high school where I had limited acce...
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