Category: Growing Fruit and Vegetables

If you are a gardener, you probably have shaded areas that can be difficult to fill, particularly with food plants. Most vegetables require sunlight, and while we can place most plants in the preferred locations,…

Sweet potatoes will grow in clay soil but obtaining a worthwhile harvest from this soil type can be a challenge. Clay will make it harder for them to grow because the ground is always hard…

We live in the wet tropics of Northeast Australia, where it can get hot and wet. There are days, sometimes weeks, where the humidity is only just bearable. These are the days when a cold…

Growing sweet potato is something that we enjoy because the plant is tough, it is easy to grow, and it can be very generous with edible tubers. While we have a fair few years of…

Sweet potato is a great vegetable to grow; it is easy to create new plants from existing plants. This process is called growing from starters, and it is a simple way to plant your way…

Growing roselle, or what we also call rosella, is one of the more manageable tasks we have here where we live, but it wasn’t always this way. Roselle is a valuable plant that is very…

Sweet potato is a great vegetable that is reasonably easy to grow if the conditions are suitable for the plant, and mulch is one component that helps create good growing conditions; even in areas outside…

Arrowroot is a name that is attached to several plants that have viable and sometimes commercial quantities of edible starch in the roots or rhizomes. They are all predominately tropical and have a cultural history…