Daughter of the Soil

Flowers of Salad Blue , one of the few potato varieties which produces copious quantities of true seed. I have a very exciting new project u...

Chocolate peppermint , a variety of Mentha piperita . I love peppermint, it's my favourite of all the mints for flavour and for medicina...

Luna Trick F4 plants all tagged up and ready to plant out Well both my F4 Luna Trick batches are now planted out in the garden - the standa...

I've finally got round to doing something I've meant to do ever since I moved here in 2004 - install a proper herb garden. In my pre...

This post comes with a little explanatory video (12 minutes running time) as an introduction to my Luna Trick pea project. It's the firs...

The unexpected discovery of the 'formula' for red-podded peas was the most exciting thing to happen in the garden in 2008. Without...

Some of you may be growing this treasure of a bean this year, as it appeared in the 2010 Heritage Seed Library catalogue - along with a litt...

OSU Blue Fruit tomato. Verily 'tis a black fruit, but red in the middle. Last year I had to leave most of my garden fallow and take a ye...

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...