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Did you know...

Tomatoes are actually a fruit not a vegetable?

Growing challenge

Grow your own bucket potatoes

You don't even need a garden to grow these delicious spuds but don't wait about, potato planting time is NOW!

Latest news

Vitamin A boost

Half your RDA of vitamin A from one potato, that's the claim from European scientists.

Plant of the month

Solanum chilense

A wild desert growing species with beautiful striped fruit.

Potato cam

Week nine

I have earthed up the spuds to encourage more yield. Check out the latest pictures here.

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About Eu-Sol

The aims and people of EU-SOL.

Super veg

The taste, nutrition etc.. of food we eat.

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Recipes

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Try this

Activities to try at home and online.

Plant histories

How the plants we eat arrived on our plate.

DNA

What it is, how it works and why it's important.

Biodiversity

Explore the variety of toms and spuds.

Plant breeding

What it is, why and how we do it.

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