Carambola or starfruit is indeed used for decoration because the slices make star shapes. I just ate one and it tastes very good in my opinion, it's sweet but also a little bit sour and it is very juicy! Those are my second year dragon fruit seedlings. They grow very slowly at the moment but during ...

Woke up very excited. Not only for christmas knocking on the door but also for the tropical fruits in the store! They don't sell it all year round so you have to be fast and lucky. Not sure about the stores in the UK but yesterday they had dragon fruit here. I bought two of them and today they were ...

Aw, don't you give up either! I wouldn't call them successes though, except for the kiwano. Almost every plant seed can sprout into a seedling, almost anywhere. If you live on the north pole you may aswell sprout kiwano in an igloo. Maintaining the plant is the difficult part, especially if you're s...

I'm not sure about pollination yet. Perhaps I'll just look it up when and if it starts flowering. I expect them to grow a lot more in 2020, especially during summertime!

This is something unrelated but I think also worth sharing. One and a half years ago I started sowing seeds from a dragon fruit I bought at the store. Those fruits are rare. Only in a lucky year they can be found at some stores, around christmas. Just like Star Fruit. So these are my tiny Dragon Fru...

Hopefully! My avocado is not doing very good I stretch many boundaries but this one in particular is quite solid.

Amazing, another plant to try! Honestly it's going to be difficult, I just read that it's a tree. Perhaps, as we use its leaves for recipes, we can simply grow a small plant or seedling and use that. I don't know, never tried this before and never seen the seeds or plant anywhere. I should try this ...

It was definitely a challenge. All plants have been put in the back of a large van up straight. There was no rope so we had to drive very slowly, annoying all other drivers in an attempt not to crash the bushes and create a soil soup in the back. I had to cut off the tip of my apple tree because it ...

kindler wrote:Are they still available?

I found them. Send me a message and we will sort things out

I chatted to my Chilean friend on Sunday & he had a big fail this year but still has seeds - not many but has agreed to give me a slice of one to save the seed for next year. That is a result, but still have Kiwano seed left as well so going to try again with them - I like a challenge! Looks li...

Yes they are still available but as we're moving, I have to search for them. It may take a little longer... but they are still available!

I've already been sowing some trays of garlic, they do very good. Going to sow some onions too then, I never thought they'd be on the list too but after all they're both bulbs. @primrose Yes I figured last year when I was starting kale a little too early and I got thrown back to the first base again...

What are some of the first crops you usually sow after the worst cold of the winter has passed? I already got adviced to sow garlic pieces as one of the first crops in the year. What else do you sow first, before everything else starts to grow? It's to make some of our garden space useful while we a...

alan refail wrote:It might cause you a few headaches if it grows to its full 20 metres

I believe the avocado is going to be the one with the headaches growing indoors under a ceiling!

It has been a long time since the last picture but this avocado is doing good!