The last time I blogged about this Physalis it was 7 years old. It is now 13 and still going strong. The last time I wrote about it, […]
Annuals / Dye Plants / Edible seed / Edimentals / Herbs / House plants / oil seed / wraps
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Red shiso
Perilla frutescens var crispa f. purpurascens (red or purple shiso) is looking good on the window sill in front of my desk! This is an important crop in […]
Annuals / Edimentals / House plants
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Devil’s claw as an edible house plant
Update 160121: The single plant produced many (over 20) fruits and masses of seed. I’ve added a few pictures at the bottom. I’ll be offering seed to members […]
Food / House plants / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Taro harvest
Taro (Colocasia esculenta) ia an important root crop in tropical and subtropical climates, but is also surprisingly hardy so that I can have it out in the garden […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / House plants / Root crops / Tubers
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Oxalis triangularis, the False Shamrock….an edimental tuberous house plant
I used to grow Oxalis triangularis, also known as the False Shamrock for the leaves and flowers. It’s also a perfect edimental house plant here as it likes […]
House plants / Nut trees / Trees / Tubers
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Kurrajong: a house tree with edible roots!
Kurrajong is an Australian tree, Brachychiton populneus, which along with other species of the genus make interesting house plants due to their interesting leaves. Kurrajong leaves resemble poplar […]
Cellar vegetables / Harvest / House plants
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Harvest (almost) complete
The last 2-3 days I’ve been working hard to harvest and bring in less hardy plants from the garden as it was forecast to be maximum -6C tomorrow, […]
Edible flowers / House plants
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Edimental Begonia
Begonia flowers are edible and taste sour. The leaf stalks of some species have also been eaten. This Begonia was given to me by Grennessminde nursery just outside […]
Edimentals / House plants / Root crops
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Tarua
Many years ago, I visited a Polynesian market in New Zealand and bought some tubers that were called Tarua in the South Pacific Islands…similar but different (and larger) […]
House plants
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Horseradish Tree
Horseradish tree (Moringa oleifera) is one of 13 species in the genus Moringa from Africa. The genus name is derived from the Tamil word for drumstick, one of […]
grain / House plants / Root crops / Tubers
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Jicama-ahipa à la Henry quinoa
One of the culinary highlights of the year is the annual Jicama (hee-ka-ma) meal….if you’ve never eaten yam beans or Jicama (Pachyrhizus erosus), you haven’t lived! I grow […]
House plants
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Taro: an excellent edimental house plant
While we’re on the subject of taro (Colocasia esculenta), I’m reminded that it can make an excellent edimental house plant which I put out in the garden in […]
Beverages / House plants
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Daina discovers secret life of coffee
Daina Binde from Latvia doesn’t drink coffee but has a nose for a coffee flower…as she discovered that my coffee plant was in flower, unnoticed by me, in […]