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May 28, 2013May 28, 2013Zoe

Take what you get

May 23, 2012May 23, 2012Zoe

Riding the allotment roller coaster

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I’m a designer and illustrator who is passionate about gardening and in particular growing fruit and vegetables on my allotment.

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A friend gave me a carrier bag full of these mini clip top jars he’d been saving. They’re just so cute. These 5 have been filled with my apple and blackberry jelly. I’m hoping this will be nice used either sweet or savoury. I’ll be passing back a few full jars as a thankyou. 🥰 #appleandblackberry #homemade #homegrown #preserves

The apple tree on my allotment has managed to produce the smallest but cutest apples. They should really be like a cox size. I think the tree got infected with aphids and struggled a bit, so I’m not surprised. I’m treating them like crab apples and making jelly, maybe with a few blackberries too. #tinyapples #cuteapple #allotmentuk #appleharvest

Wild berries. It was this time last year when I noticed all the wild berries while out walking, and I thought how I’d love to draw and label them all, and so I decided to start a new journal in the new year, but for nature and my garden too, rather than just my allotment. So this is where it all started. I’m so happy to have finally drawn these. I loved working on the slightly decaying leaves of the wild rose, so I’m looking forward to doing more of these through autumn. They’re so much more interesting than perfect green leaves. Autumn vibes are definitely here! #autumnberries #naturejournal #autumnvibes🍁 #wildberries #illustratingnature #illustratedjournal

A little selection of #chillies picked last weekend. They’re starting to ripen now. All grown outdoors at the #allotment 😁

I hadn’t really intended on harvesting this little one just yet, I was in the process of turning my squashes over so that their bottoms get ripened by the sun, and this one broke off 😏. You should really leave a length of stem on there to avoid it rotting, but I won’t leave him sitting around for long. 😋 #squash #uchikikuri #redkurisquash #allotmentuk #allotmentharvest

It took a bit of doing but between us we managed to pod all of the chickpea harvest yesterday, as well as filling 6 jars with tomato passata, and enough for last nights chilli. The chickpeas filled a full litre Kilner jar, just under 850g, not including those we’d already harvested when they were still green. This is from 18 plants, and should keep us in chickpeas for the winter months anyway. I mean we could have just bought a bag of dried chickpeas easily enough, but where’s the fun in that? 😁

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