What’s next in the veg patch?
Now that summer planting time is more or less over, it’s time to enjoy watching your crops grow and harvest lots of veggies for some tasty home grown, home cooked…
Rocket Blog: Category: Planting & Growing
Grow a whopper for Halloween
If you’re growing pumpkins for Hallowe’en then it’s a really good idea to pinch off the growing tips of the vines to leave just 2 or 3 fruits growing. Use…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener…curly leaves?
Last year I had a bit of a tomato fail. I failed to water my tomatoes regularly enough and quite a few of them suffered from blossom end rot as…
Tricks of the trade…encourage more fruit
This is the time of year that tomatoes, squashes, courgettes, cucumbers and beans truly spring into action. They grow like crazy. But you don’t want all that growth to produce…
Feed your veg this week for a better crop…
Fruiting vegetables (squashes, pumpkins, courgettes, tomatoes, beans, peppers, chillies, aubergines, melons etc) would really benefit from a liquid feed now to replenish the nutrients in the soil for a bigger,…
Tricks of the Trade…Extending the Season
Now, we don’t want you to panic, but in just a few weeks the weather will start to get a little cooler and, if you planted in early spring, most…
Do your herbs need a trim?
This is a great time of year in the herb world as they’re all in full bloom and looking magnificent. Some may need a trim though to keep them healthy…
July (and beyond) in the Kitchen Garden
You may be eagerly waiting to harvest your crops, but there are still a few things that you could plant in July and it’s a good time to get some…
Be inspired…Grow some fruit!
Growing fruit is really quite easy, although the word “pruning” tends to put people off. Please, don’t panic about pruning and just pick one or two fruits that you love to…
How often to water
During dry spells like this one, watering the plants in your veg patch is really important, and some plants need more water than others. Our advice to you is as…
Don’t scorch the leaves
It’s an easy mistake to make, (particularly if you let your children loose with the watering can!) but watering plants at the wrong time of day or in the wrong…
Tricks of the trade: Prevent bolting
Broccoli, cabbage, oriental leaves, lettuces, spinach and a few others can sometimes “bolt” unexpectedly at this time of year. Rather than producing lots of lovely leaves, they suddenly decide to…