Last year I got a 'Low Giant' Venus flytrap.  This is a registered cultivar that was developed in Australia. Low Giant seems like a ...

A number of years ago I heard of a perennial leaf vegetable called kangkong ( Ipomoea aquatica and/or Ipomoea reptans ) that is not very ...

I always wanted to grow peanuts ( Arachis hypogaea ).  I gave it a go once when I was in highschool, and we had early (February) frosts that...

I have been trying to work out how much soil a plant pot holds.  This post is to help me remember without writing on a scrap of paper and th...

We have all seen pictures of plants growing in water beads.  They look great.  We had some water beads that I was going to throw out, so dec...

North American black raspberries ( Rubus occidentalis ) are virtually unheard of in Australia.  So rare that most gardeners in this country ...

This was the sight outside my bedroom window the other day.   Black Cockatoos outside my bedroom window There were about twenty black cockat...

I like pothos ( Epipremnum aureum ), it is an ornamental climbing plant that survives through a lot of hostile conditions.  They are ornamen...

I have grown snake beans ( Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis ) in the past, green and red, but never a dwarf snake bean.  I had conside...

I have been breeding tomatoes for a number of years, far more than I care to admit.   I have a bunch of different breeding lines, each with ...