Diary of a Rocket Gardener…learnings from the veg patch
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…
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Diary of a Rocket Gardener…a nutrient deficiency?
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…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener – a Mystery Muncher
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…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener…Poor Wilting Toms
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…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener – a cheeky top up
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…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener…Caterpillars
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…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener…growing peas
So, I planted my peas during the last week of May (I think) and have been lovingly nurturing them since. I’ve grown peas before and I really like the taste of them…
Pigeon Pecked – Diary of a Rocket Gardener
As I spent Saturday afternoon at a wedding reception enjoying the sunshine with a glass or five of champagne, my brassicas became the victims of multiple pigeon attacks. They are a sorry…
A speedy crop – Diary of a Rocket Gardener
It was with childish excitement that I harvested some actual veg from my kitchen garden this evening. Brilliant! It wasn’t much, just a few leaves of chard, but then just…
It’s beautiful, but it’s bolted…Diary of a Rocket Gardener
Um, I don’t think my Pak Choi is meant to have flowers on it yet. Oops. It looks very pretty though, I must say. I rather like it. But these are not…
Pesky Pests… Diary of a Rocket Gardener
Well, this week I’ve had a few problems with pests. I don’t know who these little bugs think they are, but they’ve totally taken liberties!! Firstly, my poor mizuna… it’s…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener – troubleshooting
Ok, I’ve got to the bottom of some of these little problems I’ve been having in the veg patch. Bean problems. The sorry looking leaves on my beans (they had turned yellow/brown and…