Daughter of the Soil

First up, if you're one of the many, many people to whom I owe emails or packages of seed or whatever else, please accept my apologies f...

A few days ago I sowed the first batch of F2 seeds for my yellow sugarsnap pea experiment. I love the variability of F2 pea seeds. Most plan...

If you're thinking "What the heck is that?"... that's what I thought when I first saw what appear to be small rainbow-colo...

Rants are like buses. There had to be another one round the corner. It's been nearly two years since I wrote a post about F1 hybrids, an...

Clear skies in February have two useful effects for me. Bright intense much-needed sunlight for bringing on my pepper seedlings indoors, and...

(image copyright Greenpeace International ) I don't like to rant too often on my blog, but there's a new fuss kicking up this weeken...

Seed tubers of Mayan Gold . Its shape tends to be more elongated than most potatoes. I can see a "lewd vegetables" post coming up ...

The garden supervisor gets stuck into a hard day's work This is the time of year when you have to do crappy jobs. There's no getting...

F1 hybrid from my cross of Golden Sweet x Sugar Ann. They have pretty bicolour flowers which turn blue as they begin to fade. Golden Sweet x...