Daughter of the Soil

An unnamed/unidentified South American andigena potato. The carmine-red splodges in the leaf axils give a clue to the deep red tubers it w...

OSU Blue Fruit tomato. Not yet commercially available (to my knowledge), this is a breeding line of purple-black tomatoes developed at Ore...

Shetland Black A few years ago I bought some Shetland Black potatoes from Waitrose and they were very tasty. They were intriguing looking ...

My apologies for being a bit quiet the last couple of weeks. I've just been ripening the fruits of another big project. I've bee...

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...