Daughter of the Soil

Creating red-podded peas is quite easy. Pretty much any cross between a yellow-podded and a purple-podded pea should do it. But the somewhat...

The climate in the UK is bonkers at the moment. Within the last fortnight we had a frost which had me scrabbling to protect all my tender pl...

Look at this magnificent specimen. Well, it's magnificent by my standards. Despite my long term pea passion, this is the first time I...

Here's one I prepared earlier: a flower spike from the last time I did a seed run with Cheltenham Green Top, in 2006. High on the list o...

There isn't that much to look at in the garden in early spring, but I thought I would put up a few pictures to give an idea of what'...

What do we have here? 100% germination from 7-year-old pea seeds, that's what! These are red-podded mangetout peas which represent my be...

  Well, here we are. As astonishing as it seems, I started my Daughter of the Soil blog 20 years ago today. It hasn’t been a continuous twen...

My tomato crop in 2019 did extremely well, with barely a hint of blight. As it's now tomato planting time again, I thought I would d...