Daughter of the Soil

This is one of the rare occasions when I blog about something other than gardening, because one of my tracks got played on Stuart Maconie...

Blimey, it's hard to keep up with the progress reports on all my breeding projects. Some of these pictures were taken two weeks ago. The...

Damson blossom, photographed last week (it's all out in full bloom now) Some people stay up late at night looking through pages and page...

Photographed in 2007, this is a home-made F1 hybrid, Golden Sweet x Carruthers' Purple Podded I've talked a bit about my yellow suga...

Association Kokopelli is in trouble. And it breaks my heart to see it. Their French website says "ON A PERDU!" in capital letters...

Photographed on Saturday, just 9 days after sowing. Golden Sweet x Sugar Ann F2 seedlings. I'm still struggling to keep up with everyth...

First up, if you're one of the many, many people to whom I owe emails or packages of seed or whatever else, please accept my apologies f...

A few days ago I sowed the first batch of F2 seeds for my yellow sugarsnap pea experiment. I love the variability of F2 pea seeds. Most plan...

If you're thinking "What the heck is that?"... that's what I thought when I first saw what appear to be small rainbow-colo...