Daughter of the Soil

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...

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'...

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...

  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...