Recently I received an email from someone who claimed to work for Sparpeia.ch offering to nominate my blog for the "Flower Blog Awards...

This past year I grew a rare variety of pea named Marshall’s bananaphone . What an amazing name! I grew them in the hope of building up se...

Last year I tried to do a bit more wide plant breeding.  I have a few things I am trying that may or may not be worth doing, but it is fun ...

Earlier I wrote a post on strawberry x raspberry hybrid experiment update , now it is time for a description of the berries (botanically the...

It is time for an update on my strawberry x raspberry hybrid experiment.  Strawberry x Raspberry hybrid semi double flower (it is missing...

Recently when I have had a few conversations with people, often they are self-confessed "foodies", and I have mentioned that we us...

A while ago I found a bee forage map .  You can drag it to your address, change between miles and kilometers, zoom in and out, change betwee...

Have you ever heard about kumato tomatoes? For years I have heard how amazing these tomatoes taste and how very sweet they are. I read...

A few months ago my eldest son was given a toy for his birthday.  It was one of those things where you look after a fake pet.  It was a vers...

I have been growing strawberries for years.  Normally the leaves all look much the same.  Sometimes they are larger or smaller, or more jagg...

For some reason it is difficult to find many named varieties of thyme in Australia.  For some reason it is almost impossible to find any com...

I like dandelions ( Taraxacum officinale ).  They are a perennial edible plant that are easy to grow.  I allow them to flower and set seed i...

Last year I grew some diploid potatoes from true potato seed.  I really enjoyed it.  Every single plant produced different potatoes.  Each o...

Have you ever wondered how long it takes for a white mulberry to go from a small cutting until it is large enough to fruit?  I have grown cu...

Skirret ( Sium Sisarum ) is the ultimate perennial vegetable.  As far as I am concerned skirret is the perfect vegetable for organic garden...