My Favourite Varieties – Diary of a Rocket Gardener
I’m off on holiday this week, giving my veg patch a little break (not that I’ve been very busy in it anyway, it’s been far too wet and cold!) and…
I’m off on holiday this week, giving my veg patch a little break (not that I’ve been very busy in it anyway, it’s been far too wet and cold!) and…
It may have been chilly over the weekend, but it was dry (almost unheard of lately, here in Cornwall) so I spent a good chunk of time out in the…
So, I’ve been doing lots of reading over the winter and researching the principles of “no-dig”. I’ve also booked myself onto a Charles Dowding course in April so I’m hoping…
Ok, so last week I spotted some molehills in my veg patch. I’m not amused. There’s so much space for them to choose as my garden is surrounded by fields…why…
So, I live in Cornwall and it has been a relatively mild winter, but a really wet one. I often go out in the morning to feed the chickens to…
Last week I wrote about the various different ways I have tried, and have yet to try, to keep my most problematic pests off my veg. One thing I mentioned…
I’ve been spending a few hours in the veg patch over the last few days as we’ve finally had some nice, dry spells. Mostly I am busy preparing beds for…
Lately, the weather has been a little uninspiring and spending time out in the veg patch to plant up a fruit garden as I’d intended this month hasn’t exactly appealed….
Back in July I planted out several red cabbage seedlings with visions of harvesting beautifully neat, deep purple cabbages to cook up for Christmas Day. Sadly, the vast majority of…
So I went away for a long weekend. It was great timing to go “upcountry” as I got to enjoy all that snow! Loved it! Unfortunately Cornwall didn’t get snow…
Well it is getting close to that time when there’s not a huge amount to harvest in the veg patch. Once all my parsnips, sprouts and leeks are up (inevitably…
Wow! I am super excited to see how amazingly well my pak choi and wild rocket are doing! I planted them in September, having tried to grow them for the…