Curcuma Caesia Black Turmeric Blue Black Zedoary Root Packet containing 1x small, rare, and very expensive rhizome! These are too thick for shipping as a “Large Letter <20mm”. They must be sent as a “Parcel” and this is why they are not cheap anymore. True Black Turmeric is super hard to find here in Australia…
Ficus Macrophylla Moreton Bay Fig Seeds Packet of 20+ wildharvested seeds! Please note that there are hundred or so seeds in the pack but most are unfertilised or cracked, however you will get at least 20 which should get you a few seedlings. For me here using standard sandy potting mix they germinate in <3months,…
Jerusalem Artichoke Helianthus Tuberosus Sunroot Earth Apple Tubers Packet containing 5x small ready to plant tuberous roots! I love these guys and used to eat them all the time when I lived down south. The reason they were not on my regular menu here in Gin Gin 4671 Queensland Australia is because of climate. They…
Curcuma Amada Mango Ginger White Turmeric Root Packet containing 1x small, rare, and very expensive rhizome! These are too thick for shipping as a “Large Letter <20mm”. They must be sent as a “Parcel” and this is why they are not cheap anymore. True Mango Ginger or White Turmeric is super hard to find here…
Waterchestnut Tuber Eleocharis Dulcis Corms Roots Packet containing 5x very small ready to plant corms or roots! These are too thick for shipping as a “Large Letter <20mm”. They must be sent as a “Parcel” an this is why they are not cheap anymore. Normally just called waterchestnut, they are also sometimes called water chestnut,…
Taro Root Colocasia Esculenta Green Cocoyam Tuber Packet containing 2x small ready to plant tuberous roots! These are too thick for shipping as a “Large Letter <20mm”. They must be sent as a “Parcel” an this is why they are not cheap anymore. Known by 100’s of names as it is valued by so many…
Kaempferia Parviflora Thai Black Ginger Ginseng Root Packet containing 1x small, rare, and very expensive rhizome! These are too thick for shipping as a “Large Letter <20mm”. They must be sent as a “Parcel” and this is why they are not cheap anymore. True Kaempferia parviflora is super hard to find here in Australia and…
Queensland Arrowroot Canna Indica Lily Seeds Packet of 15+ seeds from this multipurpose crop! Known by a heap of different names, here are just a few. Edible canna, Queensland arrow, Canna edulis, Bermuda arrowroot, achira, achera, araruta, chokwo, maranta starch, dong riengganyong, sakhu chin, zembu, maraca, Canna coccinea, Canna compacta, Canna discolor, Canna patens, Canna…
Hamburg Rooted Parsley Petroselinum Crispum Seeds Packet of 100+ seeds home grown seeds! This unusual Parsley variety has been around since the mid 1500’s. It’s mainly grown as a root crop, and the root itself is described as similar to turnip or carrots. The taste is more like a celeriac crossed with a carrot in…
Murdannia Graminea Grass Lily Seeds Packet of 10+ seeds from this awesome native tuberous vegetable! I have always eaten these guys when cruising around the bush, and they are a very reliable bushtucker. That said, it took me ages to work out how to grow them at home as a productive food crop too. In…
Blessed Milk Thistle Silybum Marianum Seeds Packet of 30+ home grown seeds! This fella is a powerful liver tonic with 1000’s of years of historical consumption as a vegetable and for the treatment of liver and gall bladder illness. It is also a famed hangover cure and this is how I first heard of it.…
Plectranthus Parviflorus Blue Cockspur Flower Seeds Packet of 50+ home grown bush tucker seeds! This pretty native succulent isn’t just beautiful. It is super hardy as well due to the numerous tuberous roots it produces. They help store carbohydrates, starch and water during the dry times ensuring pretty much year round flowers. These roots are…
Wolffia Arrhiza and Lemna Minor Mixed Duckweed Starter Culture ~30 grams or ~1 ounce bag starter culture containing both awesome aquatic species! That’s right, this is a mixture of two different aquatic species. That could be an issue with some international customs and quarantine services so if considering buying for delivery for outside Australia please…
Sarsaparilla Red Ash Soap Tree Alphitonia Excelsa Seeds Packet of 15+ seed pods containing about 20 seeds! Hard to find seeds of this pretty common Aussie species. Elegant silver white backed leaves and small black berries. Covered in small creamy white flowers. New growth and shoots smell like Sarsaparilla, hense its other common name Sarsaparilla…
Lemna Minor Common Duckweed Starter Culture ~30 grams or ~1 ounce bag starter culture of this awesome Aussie aquatic species! Known as Hydrophace minor, Lemna conjugata, Lemna minima, Lemna monorhiza, Lemna obcordata, Lemna ovata, Lemna palustris, Lemna rwandensis, Lemna vulgaris, Lenticula cyclostasa, Lenticula minima, Lenticula minor, Lenticula palustris, Lenticula vulgaris, Lenticularia monorhiza, Common Duckweed, Lesser…
Flindersia Australis Crow Ash Australian Teak Seeds Packet of 10+ freshly harvested seeds! Very cool looking native Australian tree. The fruits or seed pods are just like a file or rasp, and when dry they pop open like a starfish. Great for art projects, flower arrangements and floral centerpieces. The Australian Aborigines traditionally used them…
Wing Bean Asparagus Pea Psophocarpus Tetragonolobus Seeds Packet of 5+ home grown seeds! Very ornamental vine this one, and not only that, it’s great chewing too! Beautiful orchid like flowers and striking fat multi-sided pods. Know by a multitude of names like goa bean, asparagus pea, four angled bean, four cornered bean, Manila bean, Mauritius…
Shark Fin Melon Chilacoyote Cucurbita Ficifolia Seeds Packet of 10+ home grown seeds! This fella is grown just like you would with any other pumpkin or melon vine. It’s a vegetable that is grown in heaps of places on a huge scale since back in the 1500’s and because of this it has a heap…
Peruvian Round Leaf Grape Cissus Rotundifolia Cuttings Packet containing 3x freshly harvested rooted cuttings! It grows super easy from well rooted cuttings like these and all you need to do is unwrap the paper and put the rooted section in a sandy well draining soil mix, then water a couple times a week until they…
Burdock Japanese Gobo Arctium Lappa Seeds Packet of 50+ freshly harvested home grown seeds! We tried a heap of the more common burdock varieties available in Australia over the years and long story short, we were never really very happy with either the plants or the resulting crop. Poor germination, slow growth, cut-worm dramas, aphid…
Lespedeza Juncea Sericea Cuneata Bush Clover Seeds Packet of 50+ home grown seeds! These guys grow naturally in the valley here and are a major food source for the local wildlife. Being nitrogen fixing plants they also help improve the soil conditions for nearby plants too. On the cattle blocks in town they provide a…
Alpinia Caerulea Atherton Red Back Native Ginger Seeds Packet of 40+ super fresh seeds! Very interesting native bushtucker plant. As the name suggests it is a delicious native ginger, much like galangal actually, mild, sweet and spicy, with large knobbly roots. Unlike ginger you can just chew the root as is as the flavor is…
Vigna Marina Dune Yellow Beach Bean Seeds Packet of 5+seeds from this Aussie Native! Normally found on beaches and coastal regions of Australia, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Brazil, India, Taiwan, China, Sri Lanka, Bahia, Africa, and a whole host of island nations inbetween. Super salt tolerant and drought tolerant it is a great choice for stabilization…
There are major pros and cons with each of them, and every plant species is more or less suited depending on the set of circumstances they evolved in, or were selected for. Where you live and your own local conditions will help you decide what is best where you are. Everywhere is different, and trial…
Let’s start with basic safety rules about handling and storing insecticides! Don’t ever store in drink bottles or food containers as some doofus may drink it by mistake. It happens so commonly that in most places it is actually illegal and considered negligence. As in “negligent homicide”, something well worth avoiding… A much safer option…
Weeds, what are they good for? I reckon the answer to that is everybloodything! Straight off the bat, I will say we don’t use synthetic herbicides as it’s just silly, and I talk about that in greater detail in the article Are you organic certified. “Weeds” are a valuable asset to us. They can be…
I used to do this a lot as experts told me it was necessary for a heap of commonly grown cold climate species. The idea is to trick the plant into thinking the long cold Winter has finished and now it is Spring-Summer and time to shoot. It often worked great but sometimes I had…
Narrow Angled Apple Cactus Cereus Stenogonus 1x well-calloused just starting to root ~22cm apple cactus cutting! It will be sent bare-rooted wrapped well in recycled paper materials to avoid transit damage and rot. On arrival just remove them from the packaging and stand upright in a pot of completely bone dry sandy soil mix, being…
Uruguay Hedge Cactus Cereus Hildmannianus Uruguayanus 1x well-rooted ~22cm Apple Cactus cutting! It will be sent bare-rooted wrapped well in recycled paper materials to avoid transit damage and rot. On arrival just remove it from the packaging and stand upright in a pot of completely bone dry sandy soil mix, being careful not to bury…
Bush Wild Lemon Citrus Limon Seeds Packet of 10+ freshly harvested seeds! This is a must have species for any garden in Australia, in the world for that matter. Super easy to grow and from seed it can produce its first few fruit in just three years. No need for a rootstock or anything fancy,…
Achyranthes Aspera Devil’s Horsewhip Chaff Flower Seeds Packet of 50+ home grown organic seeds! This local bushtucker and medicinal species is a bit of a new one to me, but I have to say, I’m a big fan. I have only been growing it for a few generations now, but it has definitely made itself…
Scrambling Lily Geitonoplesium Cymosum Seeds Packet of 20+ home grown organic seeds! While revegetation groups and native nurseries have a strong focus on planting trees and occasionally grasses too which is awesome, our native vines are just as important I reckon. They provide lots of food for the birds, they help shade and hold the…
Monstera Adansonii Swiss Cheese Vine Philodendron Cutting Packet containing 1x cutting ~30cm long with at least 3 nodes! This plant is also known by the synonum Monstera friedrichsthalii and under this no longer valid botanical name it is sold for some pretty high prices. Monstera adansonii = Monstera friedrichsthalii. They are exactly the same species…
Peruvian Apple Cactus Pitaya Cereus Repandus 1x well-rooted ~21cm Apple Cactus cutting! It will be sent bare-rooted wrapped well in recycled materials to avoid transit damage and rot. On arrival just remove it from the packaging and stand upright in a pot of completely bone dry sandy soil mix, being careful not to bury it…
Sea Purslane Sesuvium Portulacastrum Seeds Packet of 100+ home grown seeds! You will often see this called akulikuli, dampalit, pigface, pig face, sea asparagus, seaside asparagus, sea-purslane, sea purslane, seaside purslane, seaside purslane, sea side purslane, shoreline sea-purslane, shoreline seapurslane, or even the old synonum Trianthema portulacastrum var hillebrandii. It is an Aussie native plant,…
Native Ginger Alpinia Caerulea Galangal Seeds Packet of 40+ super fresh home grown seeds! I always knew this form of green leaved native ginger as Galangal though “native ginger” seems to be more commonly used by everyone else these days. Turns out it is super closely related, much closer than supermarket ginger, with the true…
Sesbania Cannabina Yellow Pea Bush Seeds Packet of 75+ home grown organic seeds! This very under utilized native is well worth considering. It is considered a native to the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Northern Territory, Western Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and it is also found in India, Iraq,…
Moss Rock Rose Portulaca Grandiflora Seeds Packet of 200+ tiny mixed colour, home grown seeds! This is the beautiful, multicoloured, bee attracting, eye pleasing, incredibly hardy, ornamental succulent species. It is not the other close relative Portulacea oleracea though you can Buy edible purslane seeds here. Popular all over the world and it is very…
Juncus Usitatus Common Rush Pin Mat Rush Seeds Packet of 150+ wild harvested or home grown seeds! This very widespread Aussie native is native to QLD, VIC, NSW, and has been introduced to WA and SA . It is also a native to Norfolk Island, New Zealand and New Caledonia. It is a great plant…
Trigonella Foenum Graecum Fenugreek Seeds Packet of 75+ home grown seeds! This delicious nitrogen fixing legume is know by the common names of abesh, abish, alholva, alhova, bird’s foot, bockshornklee, fenogreco, foenugreek, Greek clover, Greek hay, Greek hayseed, halba, helba, hilba, hilbeh, hu lu ba, mayti, methi, samudra, samudra methi, shanbalile, trigonella, cemen or as…