Growing Fruit and Vegetables

Welcome to the world of permaculture, where sustainable practices meet urban living! In this article, we will delve into the world of permaculture and its reality-based application in urban environments. Whether you have a small… Continue reading Exploring Permaculture in Urban Environments: A Beginner’s Guide

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,… Continue reading Growing Sweet Potatoes : Will sweet potato vine grow in shade?

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… Continue reading Growing Sweet Potatoes: Will sweet potato grow in clay soil?

Are you tired of relying on your local coffee shop for your daily caffeine fix? Well, it’s time to break free from the chains of commercial java and embark on an exciting adventure – growing… Continue reading Growing Coffee: A Guide to Cultivating Coffee at Home

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… Continue reading Sweet Potato Propagation : tips for Backyard Food Growing

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… Continue reading Sweet Potato Starters (growing sweet potato from cuttings)

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… Continue reading Growing Hibiscus Sabdariffa : leaving the seeds to self sow.

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… Continue reading Do Sweet Potato Vines Need Mulch?

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… Continue reading Growing Arrowroot

The Canna Edulis it is one of the many Canna lilies that are available and grown all over the world. This plant is more commonly known as the Queensland Arrowroot and is our preferred variety… Continue reading What Parts of the Canna Edulis Plant are edible?

The concept of becoming self-sufficient is deeply connected to gardens and the ability to grow ones own food. While there are many of us who strive daily to become a little more self reliant in… Continue reading Best Plants for self-sufficient living : what’s your list?

Many people are drawn to the attractive notion of a self-sufficient life-style, and while it sounds wonderful, it is not as straight forward or as easy as you might think. We have been on this… Continue reading Self-sufficient Living : 23 skills that help

Being able to grow Snake Beans (also known as Yard long Beans) successfully year after year, saving the seeds, then having the skills to preserve the collected harvest to create a Shelf Stable product for… Continue reading Growing Lots of Snake Beans (in a Self Sufficient Backyard)

If you want to be self sufficient you need a solid team backing you. This team can have as many members in it as you want and to get on the team, certain criteria need… Continue reading Resilient Food Plants (growing your food security at home)