Diary of a Rocket Gardener

Hmm, I’ve been in a quandary this week….should I harvest my winter squashes now or should I leave them a little while longer? If I leave them, will they over…

Well, my aubergine plants are looking very pretty and healthy at the moment with their purple/pink flowers. They’re nicely tucked up in the greenhouse alongside the tomatoes, chillies and okra…

As summer turns to autumn and most of my veg plants are now harvestable, I’m learning some valuable veg lessons. Here they are… Tomatoes (the cordon varieties that grow upright)…

So this year I planted out my veg seedlings fairly late in the season – some went in the ground in June, others in early July. I was trying to…

Right, I’m off on hols for three weeks. (Lucky me!) I’m leaving my veg patch in the capable (?) hands of my next door neighbour. So basically it’s not going…

Well, I should have learnt from this last year with my courgettes, but I got it wrong again! A few weeks ago I planted two pumpkin plants in a grow…

This week I honestly feel like all I do is battle against pests. It was crows in the chicken coop last weekend (my scarecrow proved not to be very effective…

Ok, this post is not so much about my veg patch as it is about my chickens. But I figured many Weekly Veg Out readers might also keep chickens, so decided…

Around about this time last year I think I was blogging about the sad demise of most of my brassicas…those that weren’t pecked to death by pigeons were plagued by caterpillars…