About me



I'm a half Finnish designer who has since taken a break to bring up my children. I used to work in Graphic Design, but now I prefer working with textiles and illustration. This blog is about my allotment and garden. I have been gardening for many years and grew up watching my mum and dad do the same. I began my allotment in Jan 2010 in memory of my father who passed a way just before then. I also love cooking and finding inventive and delicious ways to make my produce into meals. I'm growing with my experiences, and welcome any helpful advice! Sometime soon I hope to use my garden as inspiration for my art.

Saturday 18 June 2011

It's all blooming marvellous

I'm my extremely incapacitated state (very heavily pregnant) I tottered to the plot today to do some harvesting. It's been about a week since my last visit, but wow what a difference since all this rain! Everything is lush and blooming, all the gaps filled , buds bursting, it's generally looking very heavy indeed. I almost feel like this is the end of my allotment journey this year, as I know when my baby arrives, time will be precious and I only really planned my plot to get me to this point. So far as I can say it's been a huge success this year and I'm really pleased with everything... (well perhaps not so much with the asparagus and rhubarb, but you can't have it all). So before I disappear into a pile of nappies, here are some pics of the plot as I left it.












Posted by Jome at 15:47

3 comments:

  1. Sue Garrett19 June 2011 at 02:54

    Everyone keeps mentioning heavy rain but where is ours? Are you keeping your plot on after the baby is born?

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  2. chocolategirl6419 June 2011 at 03:08

    wOw abundance!
    beautiful red stawbs and yellow stemmed chard:
    a rainbow of produce ^_^
    jealous of your peas and broad beans:
    mine are on catch up as we got the rain later {now!}
    good luck with the wee one: x

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  3. Jome19 June 2011 at 09:21

    Yes I will keep the allotment till next spring, but I won't be actively tending to it, just harvesting. I may put in some leeks, but only if my husband doesn't know, he keeps telling me off for working there when I should be resting!

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