Here’s a video made during the recent get-together in Oxford. This is Tom talking a bit about his seed catalog as it was in the past, together with his vision for the coming years. Tom also has a few words at the end of how important the Lumper potato is to him and his breeding work. The Lumper was the main variety behind the Irish Potato Famine.
Together in the room was myself, Steph, VP of Veg Plotting, Vicki of the UK Heritage Seed Library and Ben of Real Seeds. VP and Steph didn’t say anything, but at various time you can hear the rest of us speaking.
I edited out a few parts of it, because the conversation drifted from the topic at hand.
Do you still have seed that may have originally been ordered from this catalog? Please get in touch!
For a high resolution downloadable file to view directly on your computer, click here.
Please consider this video a bit of an experiment, and I would welcome any comments you might have. Does it play well with the speed of Internet connection you have? Would you like more quality at the expense of speed? Are the the the scenes edited okay?
I still have material with Tom talking about things like tomato genetics, potato seed saving (TPS) and planting hints and tips, Tom’s potato pedigrees, and probably other topics as well.
Tom left me with a large collection of tomato and potato seeds (TPS). On request, some more material is available from Tom. In addition the hope is as a number of people start working on breeding projects, we share experiences and plant materials. Please contact me or Tom if you’re interested.
What have you got available? I’ve got a problem with this machine – there’s no sound if I play a video clip off the net, it only works if it’s on my own disks – so I can’t play the video.
Hi Robert, I’ve added a link to a downloadable file. If it’s still played in your browser, you may have to right-click and select save as, shift click or do something similar depending on what browser you have.
Nice job Patrick! I REALLY appreciate these videos!!! Even with my lousy satellite connection, this first one streamed really well, nice and steady.