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Daughter of the Soil

A folk musician's adventures in experimental horticulture

Saturday, 1 September 2007

Index of articles on this blog

Daughter of the Soil comprises a mix of articles, topic-related posts, reviews and diary-entries. Some of the more informative posts are listed here.

This information was formerly in the sidebar of the blog, but became too unwieldy, so it now has its own page.

Articles

  • Seed saving guide (veg)

  • F1 hybrids - what every gardener should know

  • How to hybridise tomatoes

  • How to hybridise peas

  • Breeding purple-podded peas

  • How to hybridise sweet peas

  • How to make a bamboo frame

  • Somme poppies



    • Cultivation info

  • Beans

  • Broad beans

  • Peas 1

  • Peas 2

  • Peas 3

  • Poppies

  • Potatoes 1

  • Potatoes 2

  • Tomatoes 1

  • Tomatoes 2



    • Reviews

  • Broad bean: Red-flowered

  • French bean: Kew Blue

  • French bean: Mrs Fortune's

  • Kirpi tool

  • Pea: Carruthers' Purple Podded

  • Pea: Champion of England

  • Pea: Golden Sweet

  • Pea: Ne Plus Ultra

  • Potato: Edzell Blue

  • Potato: Mr Little's Yetholm Gypsy

  • Potato: Shetland Black

  • Potato: Witch Hill

  • Runner bean: Black Magic

  • Tomato: Black Plum

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    Daughter of the Soil

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    Rebsie Fairholm
    Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
    One minute I'm singing waily songs and twanging away on guitars and harps ... the next I'm championing the lost art of amateur plant breeding and singing the praises of heritage vegetables. I've released an acclaimed psych-folk album, Mind The Gap. I'm also up to my ankles in mud.
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    Links to my other stuff

    • WWW.DAUGHTEROFTHESOIL.COM
    • My music website
    • Hear my songs on MySpace
    • Like my garden? Want to buy my CD? (Er ... there's no connection, but never mind)
    • Mind The Gap album cover

    Heritage Vegetable Reviews

    • Broad bean: Crimson-Flowered
    • Climbing bean: Kew Blue
    • Climbing bean: Major Cook's
    • Climbing bean: Mrs Fortune's
    • Pea: Alaska
    • Pea: Carouby de Mausanne
    • Pea: Carruthers' Purple Podded
    • Pea: Champion of England
    • Pea: Golden Sweet
    • Pea: Gravedigger
    • Pea: Irish Preans
    • Pea: Ne Plus Ultra
    • Pea: Salmon-Flowered
    • Potato: Edzell Blue
    • Potato: Mr Little's Yetholm Gypsy
    • Potato: Shetland Black
    • Potato: Witch Hill
    • Runner bean: Black Magic
    • Tomato: Black Plum
    • Tomato: Green Tiger
    • Tomato: Orange Strawberry
    • Seed saving guide
    • Index of articles

    Suppliers I use

    • Association Kokopelli
    • Beans and Herbs
    • Blogger Seed Network (open to all)
    • Chiltern Seeds
    • Dundry Nurseries, Cheltenham
    • Franchi Sementi (Seeds of Italy)
    • Heritage Seed Library
    • Irish Seed Saver Association
    • Kings Seeds
    • Lodge Farm Trees
    • Nicky's Seeds
    • Organic Gardening Catalogue
    • Plants of Distinction
    • The Real Seed Catalogue
    • Thomas Etty Esq.
    • W Robinson & Son

    Useful resources

    • Chileman
    • Chillis Galore
    • European Cultivated Potato Database
    • GM Watch
    • Homegrown Goodness forum
    • Institute of Science in Society
    • JIC Pea Genetics database
    • Organic Seed Alliance
    • Polyploidy Portal
    • Seed Saving Guide
    • Sutton Elms potato info
    • TaterMater tomato breeding forum
    • Tomato Genetics Resource Center

    The Trusty Band of Followers

    Blogs of choice

    • A Blog Called Fuggles, UK
    • Agricultural Biodiversity, IT
    • At last I've got my plot, UK
    • Bifurcated Carrots, NL
    • Bishop's Homegrown, US
    • Cats Tripe, FR
    • Cheltonia, UK
    • Clodhoppers, UK
    • Earth and Tree, UK
    • Evington Hilltop Adventures, UK
    • Extreme Gardener, US
    • Farmgirl's Kitchen Garden, US
    • Fluffius Muppetus, UK
    • Fluffy's Garden, US
    • Girl Gone Gardening, US
    • Growing Our Own, UK
    • Hills and Plains Seedsavers, AU
    • Horticultural, UK
    • In The Toad's Garden, DK
    • Joanna's Food, UK
    • Losing The Plot, UK
    • Mas Du Diable, FR
    • Mike's Allotment Diary, UK
    • MustardPlaster, UK
    • Observer allotment blog, UK
    • Ottawa Hortiphilia, CA
    • Perennial Platter, UK
    • Plan Be, SA
    • Plot 7 Woodstock Allotment, UK
    • Purple Podded Peas, UK
    • Quotidian, UK
    • Save the Ribble Campaign, UK
    • Seed Ambassadors Project, US
    • Soilman, UK
    • Spade Work, UK
    • Thankyou for the Days, UK
    • The Plot Thickens, UK
    • This Garden Is Illegal, US
    • Tiny Farm, US
    • Veg Plotting, UK
    • Vegetable Heaven, UK
    • Vegmonkey and the Mrs, UK
    • Wildlife Gardener, UK
    • Windywillow, IR
    • Worldwide seed trader, US

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