I received a few emails recently from people saying they were unable to leave comments on my blog.  I'm sorry about this but there is no...

The other day I was doing something in the garden and I moved a pot that was filled with soil.  Under the pot were a few tiny lizard eggs.  ...

Very simple Kombucha (чайный гриб) continuous brew recipe  I wrote an earlier blog post on kombucha SCOBY  and described what a scoby is com...

Hedou micro dwarf bok choy ( Brassica rapa ) is one of the smallest, and fastest growing, varieties of bok choy.  It is sometimes called an ...

For a few years we made чайный гриб (pronounced as chai-knee grib).  This translates to tea mushroom.  The beverage itself is sometimes know...

Red jelly bean succulent ( Sedum rubrotinctum ) is green with a slight reddish tinge for most of the growing season.  When stressed, however...

A few years ago when we lived on acreage we found a baby crested pigeon ( Ocyphaps lophotes ) that had fallen out of its nest.  Crested pige...

When we moved here the land behind us was paddocks that was being developed into housing.  What was paddocks filled with sheep is now rather...

Saffron ( Crocus sativus ) is a very easy plant to grow.  I have been growing saffron for a number of years, and it flowers reliably for me...