Daughter of the Soil

Adventures in experimental horticulture

Thursday, 30 April 2026

Cheltenham Green Top – can I rescue this?

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Here's one I prepared earlier: a flower spike from the last time I did a seed run with Cheltenham Green Top, in 2006. High on the list o...
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Thursday, 16 April 2026

Today in the garden ... horse fluff

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There isn't that much to look at in the garden in early spring, but I thought I would put up a few pictures to give an idea of what'...
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Tuesday, 14 April 2026

Pea breeding projects are go!

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What do we have here? 100% germination from 7-year-old pea seeds, that's what! These are red-podded mangetout peas which represent my be...
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Thursday, 26 February 2026

20 years of Daughter of the Soil

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  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...
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Saturday, 18 April 2020

A round-up of 2019's tomatoes

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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...
Sunday, 18 August 2019

Pink-flowered peas (Alderman x Salmon Flowered)

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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...
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Friday, 9 August 2019

Red-podded pea update: the F6 crop and beyond

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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...
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