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Diary of a Rocket Gardener

From Chick to Chicken – Diary of a Rocket Gardener

If you remember my post from last August, you’ll know that I snuck some hatching egg underneath my lone broody hen, Speckledy. She had three that hatched. Here they are,…

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Garden Recipes – Diary of a Rocket Gardener

I’ve been growing with Rocket Gardens for almost ten years now, so it feels like the right time to let someone else take over the veg garden diary. I remember…

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Creative Ideas for your Veg Garden – Diary of a Rocket Gardener

In the spirit of New Year’s celebrations, I’ve been pondering the coming year in my veg garden and deciding what new creative things I might have a go at. It…

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Slow Growing Curly Kale – Diary of a Rocket Gardener

Just a quick one from me this week as I haven’t been out in the veg patch much other than to harvest a few greens here and there. My one…

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The Best Way to Clean Mesh Netting

I was thinking about this cleaning problem again this week as I picked up some green-tinged netting that had been blown across the veg patch. A year or two ago,…

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Strange Squiggly Trails on Leaves? Diary of a Rocket Gardener

I thought I’d write a bit about leaf miners this week, because they seem to be strangely active in my veg garden. I know that normally they would not be…

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Cornish Pasty Recipe

If you’ve got some swede to harvest, then you could of course make a puree or a mash, but a Cornish Pasty would be even better….and they are so good…

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Growing under cover? Check the ventilation… Diary of a Rocket Gardener

The end of October was pretty mild here in Cornwall, and we had damp weather too. I had to open up the zip doors of my little grow tunnel to…

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Using a Growing Tunnel – Diary of a Rocket Gardener

I thought I’d report back on how I’ve been getting on with the growing tunnel that I decided to buy. In my last post, I was debating whether or not…

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Shall I make a hoop tunnel for winter growing? Diary of a Rocket Gardener

This is the first autumn that I haven’t had a greenhouse to grow in, and I miss it. My greenhouse crops were always a little healthier over autumn and winter…

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Autumn Weeding, Clearing & Mulching – Diary of a Rocket Gardener

I have a kind of love-hate relationship with this time of year in my veg garden. Part of me feels a huge sigh of disappointment at the general messiness of…

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Late beans, big beans and a kitchen gadget – Diary of a Rocket Gardener

This is a bit of a random post from me this week, but so many people comment on my runner bean slicer that I have begun to realise that it’s…

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