Lettuce
Lactuca sativa Introduction: Lettuce is probably descended from Lactuca serriola and originated somewhere around the Mediterranean or Near East. Some types have been grown since the time of the ancient … Read More
Author: Frank Tozer
Edible Flowers
Edible flowers have become quite fashionable of late and for good reason. A handful of flowers will transform a mundane salad into an edible work of art that makes you … Read More
Some thoughts on creating a food garden
The hardest part of making a garden is not the design (though ‘designers’ like to pretend that it is), the hard part is physically building it. The design is important … Read More
Food producing bushes
The food producing shrubs have a number of uses that make them especially important in the food garden and they can make up a significant proportion of the plants (especially … Read More
Survival gardening
The modern world seems so safe and secure that it’s hard to imagine a situation where your life might depend on your ability to feed yourself from your garden. Much … Read More
New Zealand Spinach
Tetragonia tetragonioides Introduction: This species is native to coastal areas of New Zealand and Australia, where it grows on sand dunes and beaches. As the name suggests it can be … Read More
Seed longevity and storage
I grow a wide variety of crops (often several varieties of each one) every year, which means that I end up with a lot of half empty seed packets at … Read More