Diary of a Rocket Gardener: Washing caterpillars from broccoli
Ok, I think harvesting this glorious looking broccoli head might well be my favourite veg achievement for this year. I’ve never grown my own calabrese broccoli before and there was…
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Diary of a Rocket Gardener – tips for planting autumn veg
Well it is exciting times in my veg patch this week…I’ve cleared a whole load of space and planted some 100 autumn veg plants for what I hope will be…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener: When to harvest squash and pumpkins
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…
Diary of A Rocket Gardener – Aubergines: All flowers and no fruit
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…
10 thoughts from a Rocket Gardener
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)…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener: the effect of planting later
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…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener…Recipe Inspiration
Amazing. I’ve just returned from France fully expecting to have missed all my lovely veggies, but they’re still going strong and I’ve been able to harvest all sorts! Among the…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener…seasonal thoughts
So I’m in France this week, staying in a rustic farmhouse with a very small smallholding (it is slowly getting bigger, with the addition of some goats, lambs and rabbits.)…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener…Irrigation
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…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener…slugs in my spuds!
This weekend I’ve had a disaster in the veg patch. I’m gutted. I went out to dig up all my beautiful potatoes only to find that there were small black…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener – Yellow Leaves?
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…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener…a new slug tactic
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…