I have been getting a few questions over alpine strawberries so thought I would write a short blog post to clear up some things.  Alpi...

We had a bee swarm visit us! On Saturday 3 March a friendly swarm of honey bees decided to visit.  They flew in and created an impressive ...

Mulberries are delicious, they are one of the greatest tasting and easiest to grow temperate fruit trees.  The mulberry trees are fast growi...

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 wrote a post about finding seeds from the first tomatoes that I ever bred.  I have grown them twice since then, the first time I was am...

It is not very often that I find a vegetable that I am not familiar with.  Different varieties or new varieties yes, but I generally have...

Microbats in Australia don’t eat up to 1,200 mosquitoes in an hour.  This is a common myth that has been spread for far too long by peopl...

I have never been a huge fan of lemons.   There is little doubt that the lemon is the poor cousin of the lime.   To be completely honest, I...

Coriander ( Coriandrum sativum ) is a herb that you either love or hate.  This does not store well or transport well or dry well, and hydrop...

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...