Strawberry plants are often described on the internet as ‘June bearing’, ‘everbearing’ or ‘day neutral’. Even though we usually don’t use th...

We have a lot of clover in our lawn from time to time.  I encourage it to grow in the lawn.  Clover sequesters nitrogen from th...

I am constantly amazed at how little knowledge people have about growing food.  Ironically foodies appear to have the least knowledge about ...

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

White Mulberries ( Morus alba ) are one of the easiest fruiting trees to grow from cuttings.  Anyone can do it and nothing is needed other t...

I bred Immali corn a few years ago in Central West NSW.  It is a coloured sweet corn.  As you can see from the pictures it is purple/pink 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...

Have you ever heard of a plant that is the hybrid of a strawberry and a raspberry?  Have you ever seen one?  Have you made that cross yourse...

The following was written by Anne Gibson, The Micro Gardener – https://themicrogardener.com  it is on my blog with permission. __...

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...