Growing potatoes Growing potatoes in the Redlands can be tricky, as potatoes are a cool climate crop. This means they grow well in Australia’s the southern states, but don’t like our coastal humidity! In southern states potatoes are a summer crop because...
What’s that white powdery substance on my plants leaves? I had a query recently asking what a white powdery substance was on a grape leaf? They actually said “it looks like powdery mildew, but it’s not on zucchini”! It looked like powdery...
Blueberry Hill? I am thinking of renaming my place Blueberry Hill after the number of blueberry bushes that I now have producing fruit! The only problem being that I am at the bottom of the hill, not up the top? How it started? It all started with one little blueberry...
My Top 10 Fruit trees to grow in the Sub-tropics I was giving a presentation to a Horticultural group the other day about Edible Gardening, and mentioned that my Tropical Apricot fruit tree has finally deigned to flower! The group were very interested in an Apricot...
I was going to call this Blog The Top 10 Herbs to grow in your vegetable garden. But Herbs are just such awesome plants that I like to plant them throughout my garden, not limit them to the vegetable or herb garden! There are over 100 different herbs that grow easily...