Daughter of the Soil

Sometimes when you open a packet of seeds you find that the seeds themselves are so gorgeous it almost seems a shame to sow them. Like this ...

Gratuitous picture of a self-seeded wallflower which is looking very pretty at the moment In between potting up about 500 seed trays over th...

Hmmm, something tells me these white runner beans have got crossed. My neighbour asked me "D'yer want some o' them white runner...

Here's an inventory of all the vegetable varieties I've got on the go so far . There are more still to be sown, and some of these li...

My own personal F1 hybrid, which I got by crossing Alderman with Mr Bethell's Purple Podded . The flowers have a colour different from ...

My hand-pollinated hybrid pea (sadly destroyed by a storm before it set seed) was an absolute beauty, made from a cross between two heirloom...

Purple sprouting broccoli, a favourite in British gardens since at least 1777. I've already harvested the main head and now it's pro...

I'm sure most of you are aware to some extent of the wonderful work done by the Seeds Savers Exchange in the US and the Heritage Seed L...

Appropriate that it should be St Patrick's Day when I saw the first slow-worm of the season, lounging around underneath a blackcurrant b...