Welcome to Peculiar Grow!
This is the place dedicated to sharing the wonders of our garden with the world. Find all our projects and products here. Enjoy your time here learning and growing with us!
Peculiar Grow is an actively expanding plant library and documentation project. Some sections and links are still under construction as new content is added.
Peculiar Grow Labs is the experimental heart of Peculiar Grow by OlsFarm — a working greenhouse library focused on unusual plants, careful observation, seed saving, and long-term selection. Here, varieties are documented, tested, compared, crossed, and grown under real Iowa conditions with an emphasis on curiosity over hype and patience over shortcuts.
From heirloom tomatoes and cold hardy figs to peppers, roots, berries, and experimental breeding projects, the labs exist to study how plants adapt, perform, and evolve over time. Some experiments succeed, some fail, and all of them become part of the record.
The goal is not to chase trends or claim perfection, but to build a growing archive of practical knowledge, genetics, observations, and real-world growing methods that others can learn from, revisit, and improve upon for years to come.

