There are a heap of common salad vegetables, many are bland or bitter.  As well as the common vegetables there are a large number of less co...

I wrote a few posts about attempting to create a hybrid of raspberry and strawberry through cross pollination.  The berries themselves tas...

I have written a few posts about my attempt at creating a strawberry raspberry hybrid using cross pollination.  While the resultant plants d...

Chufa ( Cyperus esculentus ) is an underrated crop.  Chufa tastes nice and can yield very well.  I have only ever eaten them raw but to me t...

Bees wax is rather useful for a variety of purposes.  If you have a bee hive you eventually end up with extra wax.  This doesn't tend to...

This year we grew a few different daffodils.  I really like them.  As last summer was extremely harsh not all of our daffodils flowered this...

There have been many studies conducted on the maximum distance from their hive that honey bees will forage.  Honey bees are fascinating and ...

Spring came early this year, some of my spring flowers began to bloom the first week of August.  Some have already finished flowering, other...