Drosera capensis was the first carnivorous plant that I ever grew successfully.  I got my first plant when I was a school student, I tended...

I grow a few different varieties of venus flytrap.  I like them.  When grown from seed they tend to display a lot of genetic diversity and e...

Sphagnum moss (one of 380 or so species of Sphagnum ) is often used to grow carnivorous plants, or to pack around fragile plants in postage,...

In September 2019 someone kindly posted me some seeds.  They were seeds of some strawberries (most likely Fragaria virginiana ) that had bee...

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...