We got my son some Spiny Leaf Insects ( Extatosoma tiaratum ) as a Christmas present.  I have never kept these before, so it is an adventure...

My wife likes candles.  I have beehives and I have collected and rendered some beeswax from them.  I bet you can guess where this is headed....

I have been growing potatoes from true potato seed for a while now.  I grow a few diploid potatoes, some tetraploids, and I have a wild rela...

I love mulberries.  I have a few mulberry trees and really should get some more.  They are such an underrated tree and they have so many use...

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...