For a few years I have wanted to grow vegetable fern ( Diplazium esculentum ).  This is a beautiful and ornamental looking fern that is comm...

Grechka = buckwheat Kasha = porridge Grechnevaya kasha = buckwheat kasha (buckwheat porridge)  There is an old saying along the lines of &qu...

I have always liked African violets, for some reason I didn't get one until the year 2021.   The first African violet I got was a small ...

From time-to-time, people contact me to tell me about some incredible vegetable that they are growing, sometimes it is an heirloom that has ...

Years ago it used to be common to read on permaculture sites how people would grow Chinese water chestnuts ( Eleocharis dulcis ) in those pl...

Back in 2019 I bought some seeds of a flower called 'Johnny Jump up' or 'Heartsease' ( Viola tricolor ).  It is one of the w...

A few years ago, a grower friend sent me some seeds as a surprise (thanks Beauze).  There were some really amazing seeds in there.  I was de...

When I was in high school I bought a small cactus, at the time it had a label that called it something along the lines of 'Snowy'.  ...

I like liverworts, they are interesting little plants.  They don't have a significant economic importance, and they are small, so mostly...

I wrote in an earlier post about saving asparagus seed from my purple asparagus plants .  It was a bit of work, but the result was worth the...

I have grown asparagus ( Asparagus officinalis ) from seed many times.  Growing from sed is fiddly and takes time.  It takes a few years to ...