Mudflower
Monday, 27 June 2022

Blood Sorrel - Rumex sanguineus

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I have grown garden sorrel ( Rumex acetosa ) for years. I originally had a variety that never flowered, which was pretty great as it always...
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Monday, 20 June 2022

Zea diploperennis cobs Australia

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This past summer I grew a perennial corn.  This one is Zea diploperennis x Zea mays , I believe it has been back crossed and contains rough...
Thursday, 16 June 2022

My kids are stronger than you

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I have always been skinny.  Sometimes I was skinny and strong, other times I was skinny fat.  Skinny fat sounds like an oxymoron, but it is ...
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Monday, 13 June 2022

Growing Sarracenia from seed

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Growing Sarracenia pitcher plants from seed is a little more difficult than growing something like a tomato from seed.  Sarracenia seeds nee...
Sunday, 5 June 2022

Growing ferns from spores at home

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Years ago, back when I was in high school, I used to grow ferns from spores.  I am not really sure what varieties I grew as most I collected...
Monday, 30 May 2022

Elusive white borage

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Back in 2016 or 2017 I got some borage ( Borago officinalis ) seeds and grew out some borage plants.  I allowed my plants to self seed and i...
Wednesday, 25 May 2022

Growing pygmy sundews from gemmae

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Last year I got some pygmy sundew gemmae.  Gemmae is sort of like a cutting that the plants made themselves.  I find it fascinating that a f...
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Tuesday, 17 May 2022

Vft Schuppensteil - Upright Red Traps

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I got some unnamed Venus flytraps a year or two ago.  These were cheap as it was a mix of varieties and the names had been lost.  There was ...
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Sunday, 3 April 2022

Zea diploperennis - perennial corn ancestor

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There are a few wild ancestors of modern corn ( Zea mays ) that are still around.  Most don't look hugely like the corn that we are used...
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Tuesday, 29 March 2022

Giant dandelions - the supervegetable

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A few years ago I started trying to breed a larger variety of dandelion ( Taraxacum officionale ).  I can't quite remember why.  It was ...
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