Daughter of the Soil

It was more than a decade ago that I made a cross between Alderman and Salmon Flowered , two heritage peas, with the vague dream of prod...

Ever since I first had a red-podded pea turn up (completely unexpectedly) in a breeding project in 2008, I’ve had a bit of a frustr...

Two different flower colours from the same batch of seed. One of my favourite sweet peas is a variety called Nimbus , and I grew a coup...

This year I decided I wanted to grow some more of a tiny globular red tomato called Tomatito de Jalapa which was given to me years ago b...

An unnamed/unidentified South American andigena potato. The carmine-red splodges in the leaf axils give a clue to the deep red tubers it w...

OSU Blue Fruit tomato. Not yet commercially available (to my knowledge), this is a breeding line of purple-black tomatoes developed at Ore...