The Secret Gardener : Dumsnåla Tips För Nygamla Odlare

We new-old growers are frugal, stubborn, skeptical, curious, and we don’t really care what others think. We grow to eat and to feel independent—but also because vegetables are fascinating and beautiful. Drawing strict lines between the beautiful and the functional feels pointless anyway, since most flowers are edible and often have medicinal properties too.

Elin Unnes is the rock journalist who began living a secret double life as a vegetable grower. When she got an allotment just outside Stockholm, she was struck by an intense passion for gardening and started blogging under the pseudonym The Secret Gardener. Today, she writes for Allt om Trädgård and counts an ultra-early potato harvest among her greatest achievements.