Have you ever looked closely at the skin of a red apple?  Have you ever noticed how it is red where the sun hit and green where it was shade...

Azolla is a free floating fern that has a symbiotic relationship with a filamentous cyanobacteria called Anabaena.  This symbiotic relations...

The other day someone linked to my post on strawberry x raspberry hybrids on Reddit and my blog post got a lot of views.  While this was re...

Years ago we bought a small plant called Pineapple Sage ( Salvia elegans ) .  It was amazing, my kids loved it, I loved it, and it grew well...

I have a (possibly bad) habit of growing new and interesting vegetables. Some things grow exceptionally well for me, other things I can’...

One of my favourite tomatoes is Japanese Black Trifele (spelled a few different ways).  They taste amazing, they usually crop heavily for me...

A few years ago I bought a small edible herb that was called "wasabi salad herb" ( Diplotaxis erucoides ). Apparently there are...

Graft hybrids are a topic of much controversy, has been studied only briefly, and at this point in time the concept is very poorly underst...

For a few years now (ever since they mysteriously made their way into the country) I have been growing different varieties of high anthocy...

Asparagus ( Asparagus officinalis ) is a perennial vegetable that is dioecious, meaning that individual asparagus plants are either male ...