- It started with strawberries, says church caretaker Jörgen Melin.
The idea was to get away from expensive summer flowers and to contribute instead, in a world situation with a shortage of certain crops.
Now sugar peas, onions, potatoes and lettuce are growing instead of flowers in the flower beds at Traryd's cemetery.
Is the idea of eating it late?
- Yes, it is.
If there is so much to thank or harvest party, there will be little to harvest.
Then we thought that the children's groups should go out and taste a little.
Can you understand that people react to food so close to the graves?
- Well, I understand that.
But we could not imagine that there would be such reactions.
Strong reactions
It started with a post on a local Facebook page that was removed after a lot of strong reactions, according to Jörgen Melin.
When P4 Kronoberg did a report on the increase, there were also reactions on their Facebook page.
Disrespectful or disgusting, some think.
Some think it's good.
Others mostly seem to think it's funny.
You have come from soil, you will become a strawberry again,
a person writes on facebook.
One reason for the reactions, Jörgen Melin believes, is that many perceive it as the church cultivating on the graves.
- I want to be clear that we do not do it, he says.