Daughter of the Soil

At the moment I'm growing four tomato varieties. None of them are red. I've got nothing against red tomatoes. It's just that ora...

Alderman , 115 years old, produces its first flower of the season The Victorians were big on peas and developed hundreds of new varieties, m...

Aquilegia 'Crimson Star' At last, I saw a toad in the garden. He was staggering awkwardly across the lawn, so hopefully he was bloat...

A red-flowered bean that actually has red flowers, just for a change I grow three varieties of broad bean at the moment, all 'heritage...

Where have all the frogs gone? Normally they come and hop about all over the patio whenever it rains, but I haven't seen a single one th...

My neighbour offered me some runner bean seeds yesterday and I declined them because I've just had some new ones from the Heritage Seed ...

Apple blossom: Tewkesbury Baron Gloucestershire is in the middle of a major apple-growing region and once had a good roster of unique variet...

I hate using the word 'heritage' in relation to vegetables, because it sounds so bloody smug. "My cauliflower has historic sign...

I bet you thought a potato was pretty much a potato, hmm? Well, that's because supermarkets usually sell multi-purpose ones so you can c...