I played around with aquaponics on a very small scale a few years ago.  I had a small tank of ornamental fish in a classroom.  The water sta...

A while ago I looked into a bucket of water that was in my garden and found a fly.  It looks like no other fly I have ever seen.  I once stu...

I love maidenhair ferns, they are such graceful plants.   I got a tiny maidenhair fern back in 2016 as an office fern , and since then it ha...

Late last winter or early spring a very generous person sent me a small plant of Sarracenia psittacina (golf ball form).  I believe he impo...

This year we had one large harvest of liquid honey early in the season, I also cut out some honey comb, then things went awry.  Since then t...

My daughter has been asking for a pet for some time.  I keep trying to convince her that one of the chickens, or guinea pigs, or bees that w...

This year I grew the famous "Glass Gem Corn".  I am not sure how or when glass gem corn made its way to Australia, but there are a...

I have a few potatoes grown from true potato seed.  Tetraploid potatoes are ok, I really like some of my diploids because their taste is vas...