Rocket Blog: Category: Journals

The February weather has been good and I’m having fun getting the veg patch ready for spring, using a spare hour here and there to start weeding beds, pull up…

The first day of February and still three months to go until planting season is in full swing. I’m always surprised it’s not sooner – the minute I see daffodils…

At this time of year, I always find myself getting reflective about my veg patch; there are enough glimmers of spring that my mind turns towards the growing season, but…

So there I was last week, writing about how well my spinach and chard plants had bounced back after those harsh frosts in early December. And here I am this…

Back when it was snowing across the UK, in December, it was just very very frosty in my vegetable garden. But, it was the most frosty it has ever been…

I’m trying to remember last autumn, and how that was in the veg garden. I think it was also fairly mild, and wet, but somehow this autumn seems even more…

I’ve mentioned this before, but seeing how much the woodchip on my paths has broken down has prompted me to write about it again. I have a good lifetime cycle…

A short post from me this week, but hopefully one that will help to prevent a few casualties over the next few weeks. The photo above was taken on the…

I live close to an estuary and have good access to creeks and inlets where there is plenty of seaweed. I’ve never really thought of it before, but when someone…

I’ve harvested all but one winter squash now, and this morning I was pulling up the last of the courgette plants which have finally stopped producing fruit. It gave me…

My leeks are looking a little under the weather this year. I planted them in early June, and over the summer, of course they were subjected to a lot of…

Last week I wrote about grey mould, aka botrytis, on my cabbage plants, and in that article I explained that I hoped that using no-dig methods would help the soil…