
Taking a bucket of flowers to market by bike
How I pack, tie and carry forty stems without bruising one.

October 17, 2026 · 8 min
Newsletter
A short letter every other Sunday from the allotment: what is blooming, what I sowed and one thing to try.

How I pack, tie and carry forty stems without bruising one.

A pencil, graph paper and a pile of seed packets, and how I fit them into one plot.