I have trouble growing spinach over summer, and I'm not great with lettuce, so trialed a few leafy vegetables that may be able to replac...

Ever since I was a kid growing vegetables I would dig out manure from the chicken house and add it to the vegetable garden.  Poultry manure ...

I wrote an earlier post on how I was  growing daffodils from seed .  At that stage I had one seed grown daffodil that had flowered.  That is...

This winter I am growing a bunch of different leaf vegetables.  Among these leafy vegetables was spinach, as this always performs well for m...

I wrote a previous blog post about Happy Chop Tearless onions being released in Australia.  As mentioned in my previous post, this is not a...

I sometimes grow potatoes from true seeds, each seed grown potato is unique and can create a completely new potato variety.  I do a little p...

I don't think I eat enough protein.  My body craves more protein.  Protein is expensive.  You also need to ensure all the essential amin...

I grew some purple stemmed Hon Tsai Tai ( Brassica rapa ) this year and recorded the number of days from planting the seed until harvest.   ...

'Tearless' onions are now available in Australia  A quote from the paper -  Production and characterization of tearless and non-pung...

Much like a seahorse is not a horse, buckwheat ( Fagopyrum esculentum ) is not related to wheat ( Triticum aestivum ).  Other than their com...