Diary of a Rocket Gardener

Last summer I built a makeshift greenhouse out of old reclaimed windows. I grew all my tomatoes, peppers and chillies in pots in the greenhouse whilst the ground was covered with…

Having spent most of last week pondering my plot, this week I’ve started planting. I should have learnt my lesson last year – that planting always takes longer than I expect…

Hello again everybody! I haven’t been doing my diary for a few months as I decided to give my veg patch a bit of a rest from growing whilst I…

A few weeks ago I was looking after my 12 year old nephew for the afternoon whilst his siblings went to a birthday party. We spent a couple of hours in…

As I lovingly harvested nine corn-on-the-cobs (yes, nine!) for my family to munch the other evening I was struck by a thought. Just what DOES go on with all this perfect looking supermarket…

My veg patch has just reached that time in the summer when everything is looking really lush and healthy and I am harvesting veg every day. I’m finding that this is…

Quite a few of my plants have got yellow leaves. This is most prominent on my butternut squash, beans, sweetcorn and tomatoes. I’ve done a bit of googling, as one does when…

OK, this is a bit of a weird one. Somebody’s been eating my celeriac leaves but I don’t know who. I suspect it is the same somebody that has been…

Oh dear. I had a bad veg week. Firstly I was away for the weekend, and then I was ill in bed for a couple of days. My veg patch…

            Well I have to say, the veg patch is doing really rather well and I’m feeling smug. I’ve harvested the first of my French…

As I was busy pulling out bindweed from around my purple sprouting broccoli this afternoon, something caught my eye on one of the leaves. A little family of baby caterpillars! They…