Daughter of the Soil

Adventures in experimental horticulture

Saturday, 1 September 2007

Index of articles on this blog

Daughter of the Soil comprises a mix of articles, topic-related posts, reviews and diary-entries. Some of the more informative posts are listed here.

This information was formerly in the sidebar of the blog, but became too unwieldy, so it now has its own page.

Articles

  • Seed saving guide (veg)

  • F1 hybrids - what every gardener should know

  • How to hybridise tomatoes

  • How to hybridise peas

  • Breeding purple-podded peas

  • How to hybridise sweet peas

  • How to make a bamboo frame

  • Somme poppies



    • Cultivation info

  • Beans

  • Broad beans

  • Peas 1

  • Peas 2

  • Peas 3

  • Poppies

  • Potatoes 1

  • Potatoes 2

  • Tomatoes 1

  • Tomatoes 2



    • Reviews

  • Broad bean: Red-flowered

  • French bean: Kew Blue

  • French bean: Mrs Fortune's

  • Kirpi tool

  • Pea: Carruthers' Purple Podded

  • Pea: Champion of England

  • Pea: Golden Sweet

  • Pea: Ne Plus Ultra

  • Potato: Edzell Blue

  • Potato: Mr Little's Yetholm Gypsy

  • Potato: Shetland Black

  • Potato: Witch Hill

  • Runner bean: Black Magic

  • Tomato: Black Plum
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    My name is Rebsie Fairholm and I breed vegetables for fun in my organic suburban garden in Cheltenham, England. I have a special love of heritage varieties, so that's what I use in most of my experiments. On this blog you'll find lots of information about heritage veg, basic genetics, hand pollination and seed-saving.

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    • Beans and Herbs
    • Blogger Seed Network (open to all)
    • Dundry Nurseries, Cheltenham
    • Fertile Fibre
    • Franchi Sementi (Seeds of Italy)
    • Heritage Seed Library
    • Irish Seed Saver Association
    • Kings Seeds
    • Lodge Farm Trees
    • Newlands Nursery
    • Nicky's Nursery
    • Organic Gardening Catalogue
    • Plants of Distinction
    • Roger Parsons Sweet Peas
    • The Real Seed Catalogue
    • Thomas Etty Esq.
    • W Robinson & Son

    Useful resources

    • Chileman
    • Chillis Galore
    • Commonwealth Potato Collection
    • European Cultivated Potato Database
    • Homegrown Goodness forum
    • JIC Pea Genetics database
    • Open Plant Breeding Foundation
    • Organic Seed Alliance
    • Polyploidy Portal
    • RHS Grow Your Own
    • Seed Saving Guide
    • Stroud Community Agriculture
    • Sutton Elms (potato info etc)
    • TaterMater forum
    • The Vegetable Garden
    • Tom Wagner talks about TPS (videos)
    • Tomato Genetics Resource Center

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    Blogs of choice

    • Agricultural Biodiversity, IT
    • Bifurcated Carrots, NL
    • Bishop's Homegrown, US
    • Brown Envelope Seeds, IR
    • Cats Tripe, UK
    • Cheltonia, UK
    • Down on the Allotment, UK
    • Growing Oca, UK
    • In The Toad's Garden, DK
    • MustardPlaster, UK
    • Radix, UK
    • Seed Ambassadors Project, US
    • Soilman, UK
    • Tater Mater blog, US
    • This and That, UK
    • Veg Plotting, UK
    • Vegetable Heaven, UK

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    • Reviews (17)
    • Runner beans (7)
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    • Sweet peas (1)
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    • Tomatoes (29)
    • TPS (potato seed) (5)
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