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What are Pigeon Peas? Pigeon Pea Plant Uses & Growing

May 31, 2022 By Alyson Long Any post on this website may contain affiliate links. We profit from these.

What are pigeon peas pigeon pea pods on the pigeon pea plant

Pigeon peas are the seeds of the pigeon pea plant and they are edible. The Latin name for the species is Cajanus Cajan or Cajanus Indicus.They are a type of lentil, pea, or seed and the pigeon pea plant is a tropical perennial legume of the family Fabaceae. This makes is a very useful, and beautiful, plant in a tropical garden. You'll find pigeon pea recipes in several tropical … [Read more...] about What are Pigeon Peas? Pigeon Pea Plant Uses & Growing

How To Grow Green Chillies

June 21, 2022 By Dug Long Any post on this website may contain affiliate links. We profit from these.

growing green chillies

It may surprise you to know that green chillies and red chillies are the same plant, just one is ripe,and one is picked early. Of course, there are many, many varieties of chilli pepper plant (chile or chili to our US friends, the double l in chilli is the British English version also used in Australia) but they're all pretty easy to grow and many can be grown from store or … [Read more...] about How To Grow Green Chillies

Growing Tomatoes in The Tropics

March 27, 2022 By Dug Long Any post on this website may contain affiliate links. We profit from these.

This post is about my experience and things I've learned growing tomatoes in the tropics. Yes, of course you can grow tomatoes in the tropics, but it's a little different to growing cherry, heirloom, grape, beefsteak and slicer tomatoes in more temperate climates. I grew up growing tomatoes in a temperate environment, where winters didn't support tomato growing. In the tropics … [Read more...] about Growing Tomatoes in The Tropics

Can You Grow Pumpkins in the Tropics? Tropical Pumpkins

March 16, 2022 By Dug Long Any post on this website may contain affiliate links. We profit from these.

male and female pumpkin flowers

When I first started our tropical garden I wasn't sure if you could grow pumpkins in the tropics or not. Being from the northern, temperate, hemisphere, I associated pumpkins with the autumn harvest, Thanksgiving, winter storage, and spring plantings. I decided to just plant some seeds and see what happened. Most certainly, yes, you can grow pumpkins in the tropics and this … [Read more...] about Can You Grow Pumpkins in the Tropics? Tropical Pumpkins

Snake Beans and Green Ants

March 16, 2022 By Dug Long Any post on this website may contain affiliate links. We profit from these.

Snake neans and green ants

What's with snake beans and green ants? As soon as the first flowers appeared on our snake bean plants the green ants were there clustered around the flowers and setting up home in the leaves. Until those flowers appeared ( in July, first bean harvest August for us) there had been no green ants at all in our veggie beds. Once the flowers dropped their petals and the beans … [Read more...] about Snake Beans and Green Ants

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Our website is a very new baby. It’s still under construction.  The plan was to record gardening notes here from our large suburban backyard food forest. But then our dream came true, we bought a farm. This site will document our adventure in the renovation of the property, tropical permaculture gardening, plus raising the animals I’ve wanted since childhood on 5 acres of paradise.

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