Daughter of the Soil

Patient readers who have put up with me banging on about gene segregation and F2 hybrids ... here's a little photo sequence from one of ...

A plethora of newly harvested heritage beans With all the crises I've been dealing with over the summer, the garden has been badly negle...

Age: don't know ... information is scarce Background: a supermarket tomato which has made an impact with resourceful gardeners My supp...

Tomato seeds for future generations, in pulps of all colours. Banana Legs (left), Black Prince (top), Douce de Picardie (right), and Caro Ri...

What finer setting could you want for a real-world get together of garden-allotment bloggers than Oxford University's beautiful Botanic ...

Tomato diversity ... these beauties were mostly grown in my newly-acquired greenhouse, which has given them some temporary respite from the ...

All together now ... oooooooooooh!! The red-podded peas have now completed their life cycle, and in fact have started a new one, because I...

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,...