The Rainbow Pea Project

One woman. One garden. One scalpel. Half a degree in genetics. Hundreds of peas. Let's see what happens!

Sunday, 8 June 2014

First flowers

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Well like everyone else I've been suffering a lot of slug damage what with the mild winter we had and the wet weather we've been h...
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Thursday, 22 May 2014

Epistasis and the D gene

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I don't know the exact details of the genetics of all my pea plants. Many of the experimental varieties have their own pages on the webs...
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Wednesday, 21 May 2014

More about red pods and crosses

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Although I started late, my peas are doing well. The tall varieties are about 2ft tall (of course the short ones are shorter!) now and they ...
Friday, 2 May 2014

What I'm growing

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I currently have seeds of 42 different types of peas. I don't have the room to grow everything this year, so some decisions had to be ma...
Thursday, 1 May 2014

Pod colours, and some genetics

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There's a surprising amount of variety in the colours of pea pods. We all know the standard green ones, but it's possible to get the...
Wednesday, 30 April 2014

Breaking down the plan

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This project is going to to take literally years. I can grow one generation of peas every year (you can squeeze in a second one, but a se...

So why peas?

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So why have I chosen to focus my attentions on peas, when I could be working on any other vegetable or fruit? What's so special about th...
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