If you're in a warm climate, rosellas are a very useful and unusual plant to grow in the backyard. They're a wild hibiscus, grown i...

Now that I'm not working at writing every day, my days have turned into splendid waves of sewing, waves of family, waves of cooking. It...

We planted a second lemon tree about 18 months ago and it's starting to produce its first lemons. I love have having too many lemon...

Although I was busy on the weekend with this, that and the other, I wanted to make tomato relish to go with the corned beef I'd just co...

There is no doubt you can save money if you have the space, time and energy to produce organic vegetables and fruit in your backyard. Ha...

Elder flowers - open at the top and still closed at the bottom. Often, when new gardeners get through the first years of vegetable gar...

Although I don't write about it nearly as much as I think about it, food budgeting is one of my favourite topics. It's the firs...

It was one of those special days yesterday - one when the hours dissolved into each other, I had no real work to do and I sat knittin...