Companion planting will help you to work with nature to achieve a thriving garden and keep pests under control. As soon as you spray any chemical pesticide or herbicide in your garden you also kill of the beneficial insects that can help keep you garden in balance. They will keep the harmful pests at bay  Continue Reading »

Coconuts are dying.  This is a sad story. Once upon a time in Jamaica coconuts thrived and next to water were the staple of life. The people of Long Bay Portland Jamaica thrived on the industry they provided and the natural medicine that kept them very healthy. They used to say the doctors in Portland  Continue Reading »

Botanical name: Discorea spp Varieties: Imba , Barbados ,Moonshine , St Vincent , Taw , Black Whisp, Yellow , Bitter Gashie, Hack , Lucea  or Macka , Mozella , White ,Chinese , Negro , Sweet , Yampie . Hiding under the ground in a weedy and forgotten part of the Community Garden our winter harvest  Continue Reading »

Seasonal subtropical vegetable planting guide for eastern Australia It makes perfect sense to support your local food production. Sending food thousands of miles is not logical.  It means that the food loses its nutritional value and with all the pollutants our bodies are having to deal with we need all the nutrition we can get  Continue Reading »

Grow Beans Beans are a medicinal plant Botanical Name: Phaseolus vulgaris  Buy bean seed Common name: Green French beans String Beans or Snap Beans, dry beans (many varieties) Grow beans and stay healthy. There is nothing better than growing your own beans.  They are simple to grow, easy to harvest and delicious to eat. Good  Continue Reading »

Buy Pumpkin Seeds in the USA Buy Pumpkin Seeds in Australia Pumpkin is one of the staple vegetables that you can grow in your garden.  It seems everywhere I go someone is cooking pumpkin soup.  It is cheap, readily available and the recipe can be varied.  Add some coconut cream and a kaffir lime leaf  Continue Reading »

Homemade Mosquito Repellent Lemon Grass or Fever Grass is something that is always growing in a subtropical or tropical garden.  It is a very beneficial medicinal plant and with the addition of cloves makes an excellent mosquito repellent. Learn from James Wong how to make it and grow your own drugs to make cough mixtures,  Continue Reading »

Pavlovsk Station is on the outskirts of St Petersburg in Russia and is one of the world’s most valuable seed and plant material collections in the world.  There is no doubt that this collection is priceless and that no amount of money that could replace it. The developers are moving in and the government officials  Continue Reading »