Grey's edible garden

10/07/2025

One of these plants is Indian. It is called ‘Ponnigani’. The other is Brazilian; it’s called ‘Sissoo’. They are both regarded very favourably in their respective countries as edible spinach. They are the same plant, different forms of Aternanthera sessilis.

21/11/2024

How much space do you need to grow carrots?
Well these five small carrots were all grown in the 100 mm pot. About the same size as a coffee cup. Nice and sweet too.

15/11/2024

Wasabi ?

Is it hard to grow in South Western Australia? Not in the least. I can sell you a starter plant for $5 and show you how.

12/10/2024

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This is enormous and horrendous🤬 An emergency ban has been applied to a widely used agricultural chemical because of the very real and severe danger it presents to unborn children. This stuff is mainly used on vegetables. Ffs can you imagine, still putting profit before people.

Farmers and retailers must immediately stop using a herbicide due to an imminent risk to human health, following earlier concerns from US regulators.

26/02/2022

Well there’s never been a time when growing your own veggies seemed more important. It saves time, it saves money, it saves petrol, it’s good for you, good for the environment. The ‘shelf’ is always full. You can listen to the Woe News or go play in the veggie patch🤗

You can support multinational corporations or you can get all the edibles and the best local advice while paying half as much. Grey’s Edible Garden, open Saturday and Sunday enjoy your weekend.

25/02/2022

This kefir cheese and mixed ‘greens’ empanada, using Spring roll wrappers was really good to eat. Great way to use up too many greens, (as if that were possible) 😂

10/02/2022

Just making sure people are aware of how easy, productive, and useful pepino’s are. You can always pop in for a free cutting with roots on.

07/01/2022

Lots of beautiful plants this week. Ginger, Turmeric, Okra, Tomatillo, Pimento, some great Chillies and Tomato from just $2

03/12/2021

O gourds and calabashes and turmeric and jute
Chillies and eggplants and all kinds of fruit.

Loads of different edible plants, but no customers?

22/11/2021

This seed is a great colour innit? It’s Jute! Jute is one of those plants like the cabbage, gourd and common bean, that come in so many varieties it’s hard to imagine they all started from one common parent. Jute grows on the delta of the Ganges 4 metres tall for turning its long and strong fibres into rope and sacking.
But in Morocco it’s a short plant destined for a plate. It is nutrient rich, delicious and grown in various forms and places across Africa and Asia. It’s getting sown in the morning, (the short spinach form).

22/11/2021

Beetroot, So I had these beetroot growing in 100mm pots… for two years😖 Not sure why, maybe I was going to plant them out, maybe I left them because they looked leafy. But as you can see they’re so old they grew a second beet under the original. They’ve had little or no fertilising. Now I knew that beets are very forgiving of terrible Gardeners, but… anyway I decided to put them to the test. Steamed them for 15minutes and you’d think they were just baby’s, lovely. 😂

11/04/2021

Two African horned cucumbers, (wrongly named Kiwano, tsch tsch New Zealand). One weighs in at 245 grms, the other 128 grm. When fully ripe the mottling remains but changes colour to a vibrant orange. Inside the green flesh resembles Chinese Gooseberries, (Kiwi fruit, sigh), but tastes nothing like, bleh is probably closest. They sometimes find their way onto the grocers shelves as ripe, over priced to discourage buyers, they’re decoration.

But when young they are the best tasting cucumbers you’ll ever use. How young? Let’s find out, well I’ll find out for you.