Keeping Guppies Outside in a Pot or Pond in the Tropics
Guppies should do fine in outside pots, ponds, or other containers in a tropical climate. They are very easy to ...
Growing Herbs in a Tropical Climate | Tropical Herbs
You can grow a lot of herbs in the tropics, including those normally associated with cooler or Mediterranean climates. There ...
40 Great Benefits of Growing Your Own Food!
Growing your own food is not just a hobby, it’s an investment. You are investing in future food supplies, in ...
What are Pigeon Peas? Pigeon Pea Plant Uses & Growing
Pigeon peas are the seeds of the pigeon pea plant and they are edible. The Latin name for the species ...
How To Grow Green Chillies
It may surprise you to know that green chillies and red chillies come from the same plant, just one is ...
June in the Garden Harvesting and Planting
June is a great month in the garden, it’s winter in the southern hemisphere and a good time to plant ...
Grapefruit Tree (Growing, Caring For, Grapefruit Uses)
The grapefruit tree (citrus pandisi) in our garden must be ten years old now and it gives us prolific grapefruit ...
May in the Garden
What’s growing, fruiting, flowering, germinating, and cropping in our tropical food garden in May? May is the last month of ...
Growing Tomatoes in The Tropics
This post is about my experience and things I’ve learned growing tomatoes in the tropics. Yes, of course you can ...
What Food Can I Grow in The Wet Season?
The wet season of 2021 was our first wet season at home, in the tropics for 9 years. As such, ...
December in The Garden
What’s growing, fruiting, flowering, germinating, and cropping in our tropical food garden in December? December is the first month of ...
Growing Pumpkins in the Tropics?
Can you grow pumkins in the tropics? Yes you can grow pumpkins in the tropics and they grow very well ...
October Harvesting and Planting
What’s going on in the tropical food garden in October? October for us, here in the Southern Hemisphere, just 16 ...
September Harvesting and Planting
What’s growing, fruiting, flowering, germinating, and cropping in our tropical food garden in September. That’s the first month of spring ...
What To Plant in The Tropics in May
May is the last month of autumn for us but already it’s getting a bit chilly at night. If you ...
November Harvesting and Planting
In November in the southern hemisphere tropics the heat is building for us and rain is scarce at the beginning ...
Snake Beans and Green Ants
What’s with snake beans and green ants? As soon as the first flowers appeared on our snake bean plants the ...
August Harvesting and Planting
What’s growing, fruiting, flowering, germinating, and cropping in our tropical food garden in August. Remember, we’re in the southern hemisphere, ...
Make Your Own Fertiliser
Yes, you can make your own fertiliser for your plants at home, easily. It can even be free. Making your ...
July Harvesting and Planting
What are we are picking, harvesting, and planting here in tropical Queensland in July. Every year we will update this ...
First Steps in Tropical Food Gardening
Gardening in the tropics is different. It’s not as easy as many gardeners in cooler climates might think. We in ...