For a few years I heard about a plant called water pepper,  Persicaria hydropiper , it is also called smartweed.  I almost bought seeds, but...

For sale in Australia perennial vegetables, heirloom vegetable seeds, edible herb plants, organic berry plants, and a few non-edible plants ...

For no particular reason, other than I had never done so, I grew Spanish Lavender ( Lavandula stoechas ) from a seed.   Sometimes I grow pla...

Perennial buckwheat  ( Fagopyrum cymosum complex, sometimes called Fagopyrum dibotrys ) is a perennial vegetable that is sometimes used as ...

Home made kombucha (which is often called чайный гриб, pronounced: chaynyy grib) and store bought are two very different things.  The divers...

I grow a few different mulberry trees.  For some reason, mulberry trees in Australia tend to be mislabeled more often than not.   This mulbe...

For sale in Australia perennial vegetables, heirloom vegetable seeds, edible herbs, organic berry plants, and a few non-edible plants and th...

I love Ginkgo ( Ginkgo biloba ) trees, there is something miraculous about them.   My neighbours went away and asked my kids to look after t...

I love persimmons, but they are crazy expensive.  Most years I can't justify the price of buying a persimmon to eat.  I have been told t...