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About Rocket Gardens |
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A Rocket Garden is a box brimming full of baby organic vegetable and herb plants packed in golden straw and delivered direct to your door.
All you have to do is pop your baby plants into their new home to grow your own Instant Organic Kitchen Garden.
The aim of Rocket Gardens is to simplify the process of growing your own organic vegetables and make the idea of a home kitchen garden a reality.
Rocket Gardens.co.uk is a mail order online company based in West Cornwall which organically grows and distributes vegetable and herb seedlings throughout the UK direct to our customer’s doors. Our organic natural growing system enables the customer to simply and instantly create their own vegetable garden with the benefits of eliminating the precious time and effort involved in home seedling establishment.
Between us at Rocket Gardens we have over 70 years of vegetable and herb growing experience and we are happy to answer any questions or queries you may have. E-mail us at help@rocketgardens.co.uk
DEVELOPMENT OF THE ROCKET GARDENS CONCEPT
We are a very food orientated family and for many years now we have grown our own vegetables organically. Although the whole process is immensely satisfying we also find it time consuming and labour intensive. Furthermore a certain amount of knowledge and equipment is required to be successful in providing plenty of fresh food for the kitchen.
This is where the concept of Rocket Gardens began to form:
“How can the enormous benefits of growing your own veg become a reality for a far greater percentage of the UK’s population?”
At Rocket Gardens we have looked at the reasons why people believe growing at home may not fit in with their lifestyle. We have developed a variety of products which help to overcome these reasons.
Rocket Gardens seedlings are grown under large traditional unheated glass greenhouses with plenty of ventilation and watering facilities in order to produce healthy and hardy growing plants. Once the plants are established they are taken outside to a hardening off area before being sent to their final destination. We grow totally without the use of pesticides, herbicides, chemical sprays and fertilisers.
Unlike some nurseries we do not believe in using artificial heat to raise our plants. This avoids the burning of fossil fuels and provides for a hardier growing seedling.
Organic from the outset:
All of our seeds are sourced from Soil Association approved organic seed suppliers.
The compost in which the vegetable seedlings are grown is approved for use in Organic systems by the Soil Association.
Our plants are grown naturally under a fully organic regime.
Even the water we use on the plants is taken from our river just 50 metres below the greenhouses.
In most instances each plant is grown in its own individual biodegradable pot; this system has been chosen for the following reasons:
For growth:
It provides a very dense and active root hair system
Growth is improved
Transplant shock is minimised
Establishment speeds are improved
No root deformation occurs
Continued plant development is excellent
Ecological advantages
100 % biodegradable organic product
After its useful life the pot can be put onto the compost heap and transformed into humus to be put back into the soil.
Compared with a plastic pot there is no accumulated waste for landfill sites or in the case of combustion no harmful emissions.
Furthermore all of our packaging systems have been chosen in order that they are as ecologically friendly as possible. Recycled cardboard is used wherever practicable and this in turn can be used again or put onto the compost heap to be broken down. Where non cardboard packaging is required if possible we try to source recycled products.
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all seedlings and plant kits
