Daughter of the Soil

Last year's F2 plant which became the prototype for Luna Trick I have at least three or four plant breeding projects which will be ready...

I don't often endorse commercial products, and even less often patented ones. It's even more unusual for me to spend sixty quid on p...

Twelve British peas which are either extinct or rarely seen outside gene banks in the UK, now here on my windowsill awaiting trial in 2009. ...

Climbing beans from the HSL ... Poletschka (mauve beans in green pods) and Purple Giant (white beans in purple pods) I just wanted to say he...

A gardening blog is not the place for a political commentary but I'm making this exception in the light of the Jean Charles de Menezes ...

Door handle on Aldham church in Essex. This is the second of the ancestral churches I visited. I couldn't get too close to the first one...

Newly harvested Rose de Lautrec bulbs, photographed in August. The unattractive brownish specimen on the right is how it looks when it come...

If I had to choose one thing which did better for me in 2008 than anything else, and which was a constant surprise and delight, the prize wo...

Funnily enough, just as I was writing up the results of this year's successful sweetcorn endeavours I was leafing through the 1849 volum...