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

Skirret plants will not cross pollinate with anything other than skirret, so saving seed is easy.  Skirret flowers in characteristic umbel...

One of the berries I grew this year was a thornless youngberry. Youngberries are one of the many hybrid berries that have raspberry and bl...

A while ago Diggers club advertised what they claimed to be an exclusive yellow fruited raspberry plant.  They looked and sounded amazing...

I wrote another blog on how I grew oyster mushrooms on newspaper . Another way I grew them was on torn up pieces of cardboard in an ice cr...

I wondered how difficult it would be to grow edible mushrooms.  Mushroom kits are expensive, and many people who sell mushroom spawn charge ...

I wanted to get an office fern to make my day at work a little nicer, maidenhair ferns are always nice so I got one of them. I have been t...

I have grown a bunch of different varieties of edible thyme over the years.  I haven’t disliked any but some are better than others.  Sinc...

One of the raspberries I grew this year was golden raspberry. Golden raspberries are a yellow fruited variety of red raspberry ( Rubus ida...

Back in 2013 I wrote a blog post comparing perennial leeks with regular leeks .  I have since done a better comparison and thought I would w...

Senecio rowleyanus is commonly known as string of pearls plant and looks similar to the Neptune’s necklace seaweed that you sometimes se...

Pampas grass is a bit of a weed in Australia, I would not recommend that anyone buy or grow it.  If you do grow it, first make sure that it ...