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…
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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…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener – Creepy Crows
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…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener…take that, brassicas!
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…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener…in the greenhouse
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…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener…an evening of planting
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…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener – Plotting my Veg
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…
Gardening with children… Diary of a Rocket Gardener
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…
Growing Organically…it makes you wonder – Diary of a Rocket Gardener
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…
Raising Tomatoes…Diary of a Rocket Gardener
Well, I have been having one or two completely self-inflicted tomato growing problems lately. I suspect I’m not the only onto be encountering these problems either. Firstly, I have quite…