What should you grow when you desperately want to grow a venus flytrap but struggle to keep one alive?  The answer, surprisingly, is to grow...

Silverbeet ( Beta vulgaris ) is an easy to grow leaf vegetable.  Silverbeet is also called chard, swiss chard, rainbow chard, leaf beet, per...

This blog is mostly about garden nonsense, but thought I would write a post on language learning as it may be useful to someone.  Learning a...

I grow a few maidenhair ferns.  They are easy enough to grow if you get the conditions right.  Earlier I wrote a blog post on how I grow mai...

When we had acreage or chickens and other poultry would free range through the orchards.  After moving to town our chickens used to free ran...

A few years ago, I started growing a perennial vegetable called Vietnamese fish mint ( Houttuynia cordata ).  This perennial plant is used a...