Daughter of the Soil

Potato haulms showing typical symptoms of aminopyralid poisoning. Growth is stunted and the edges of the leaves curl upwards in a strange sp...

Black Prince is a Siberian heirloom variety given to me by Patrick of Bifurcated Carrots and has good old-fashioned classic tomato flowers,...

Outtakes from my yellow sugarsnap pea breeding project. Now that the yellow sugarsnap project F2 generation has reached full maturity I'...

I thought maybe it's time I explained why my pace of blogging has slowed recently, and why I've got so behind with commenting on oth...

Merry is the summertime when you're a pea. This is Sugar Magnolia strutting its stuff with industrial-strength tendrils. All the pea br...

Seeds are survivors. This one has germinated in the old drainpipe above my water butt. As my post of out-of-date seeds seems to have gone do...

Well the answer is mostly GREEN podded peas, actually. That's something I hadn't predicted and I don't quite know why it's h...

First rose of the season. No idea what variety it is, I inherited it when I moved here. Here's a few shots from around the garden over t...

Don't get too excited, this one looks very pretty but it's actually a yellow mangetout (snow) and only has one of the two recessive ...