Daughter of the Soil

Beautiful purple potato blossom with white star points. This is seedling no.3 of Pirampo x Khuchi Akita . My potato plants grown from TPS...

Is there anything more beautiful than poppies at this time of year? This is one of my Somme poppies (see below) but with white flecks. My...

Here's a demonstration of the method of hand pollinating peas for anyone who has 10 minutes and 39 seconds to spare. Sorry about the b...

Breeding new potato varieties is easy. You can hand-pollinate potato flowers in far less time than it'll take you to read this article...

Genes are the most wondrous things. What flower colour do you suppose I got when I crossed this white blossomed beauty ... ... with thi...

There is, you'll agree, a certain 'je ne sais quoi' oh, so very special about a firm, young carrot. So said Uncle Monty in ...

Everything's happening so fast in the garden at the moment I'm barely able to upload my photos onto the computer before they'r...

A thunderstorm chucks its load on the Severn Valley (and shortly afterwards, on me) during my walk on Sunday. Normally you get a spectacular...