I was given some seeds of a variegated tomato.  They spent a while in the post, under who-knows -what conditions, so lost some viability. On...

I grow a lot of tomatoes each year, I really love tomato season.  Some varieties are far better than others.   My kids help me grow the toma...

I don't think it is any great surprise to anyone who knows me that I dabble in plant breeding.  I particularly like growing edible thing...

I grow a few carnivorous plants from seed.  Some are fast from seed, others take a long time. It is important to keep different types separa...

I have a few different venus flytraps, one of the names varieties I grow is "Low Giant".  It was a nice enough plant that had a lo...

I got some seeds of black raspberry ( Rubus occidentalis ) a while ago .  I scarified and cold wet stratified the seeds, forgot about them f...

This week I bought a lovely little butterwort, Pinguicula sethos (an intergeneric hybrid between P ehlersiae and P moranensis ).  It is in...

Huacatay ( Tagetes minuta ), is also called Peruvian Black Mint, is an annual herb commonly grown across the Peruvian Andes and less commonl...