Field and Pot Sampling - Day One

Today, Nico and I travelled up from Southampton in England to Dundee in Scotland, a distance of 388 miles (624 kilometres)! We are going to stay for a week to help gather some sample from field and large pot experiments that Tim and Laurie at the James Hutton Institute have grown for us. When we arrived we were given a tour of the site and shown the plants.

Here is a photo of the barley plants on the field. There hasn't been much rain in Dundee over the last few weeks, which is unusual, so the plants are quite small.

Here are barley plants that have been grown in a large pot. This pot has been in the glasshouse, a giant green house, and has been water regularly. As you can see it is much bigger than the plants in the field. Tomorrow, we will get to work harvesting the samples that we need.