vegetable garden

Wonky vegetables and fruit including potatoes, onions, carrots, and apples. Illustration from The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity by Alexandre Antonelli

Wild Parsnip Pastinaca sativa sketchbook study.  Illustration shows comparison with the cultivated parsnip plant, Pastinaca sativa sativa.  It also includes details on the petiole, flower, umbel, seed head, seeds, and root.

Garden snail Helix aspera with grey body and yellow and brown shell cut to white

Garden snail Helix aspera line drawing in pen and ink cut to white

Common British Garden invertebrates including violet ground beetle, silver y moth, earth worm, worm, flesh fly, honey bee, ladybird, and small tortoiseshell butterfly with written annotations on each

Cucumber plant drowing up a support showing tendrils, leaves, and young cucumber fruits and flowers alogn with companion planting of nasturtium

Potato Solanum tuberosum vs Sweet potato pomoea batatas tuber diagram

Potato Solanum tuberosum in flower with badly damaged leaves with Colorado beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata on the leaf and also cut to white beetle. Egg, larva, and pupa

Potato Solanum tuberosum in flower with potato tubers amongst the roots

Cucumber Cucumis sativus pencil drawing showing three types of cucumber along with leaves, flower, and tendrils

Broccoli Brassica oleracea italica pencil study showing edible head and a few leaves

Cucumber plant drowing up a support showing tendrils, leaves, and young cucumber fruits and flowers alogn with companion planting of nasturtium

Lasagna garden cross section showing the layering of paper, organic matter such as compost, topsoil, and crops

Steps involved in single digging soil

Little rocket seedlings growing in a seedling tray in compost, ready to be thinned out or planted on