Daughter of the Soil

  Well, here we are. As astonishing as it seems, I started my Daughter of the Soil blog 20 years ago today. It hasn’t been a continuous twen...

My tomato crop in 2019 did extremely well, with barely a hint of blight. As it's now tomato planting time again, I thought I would d...

It was more than a decade ago that I made a cross between Alderman and Salmon Flowered , two heritage peas, with the vague dream of prod...

Ever since I first had a red-podded pea turn up (completely unexpectedly) in a breeding project in 2008, I’ve had a bit of a frustr...

Two different flower colours from the same batch of seed. One of my favourite sweet peas is a variety called Nimbus , and I grew a coup...