Pasta with Roasted Squash
A great way of using up roast squash for a midweek meal – it’s great comfort food! Ingredients (serves 4) 1 medium squash, roasted 1 red onion, peeled & diced…
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New to Composting? Some pointers…
At this time of year, there is plenty to put on the compost pile, from all the old veg plants as well as grass cuttings and raked up leaves. This…
Cabbage White Caterpillars in Autumn
As we reach mid-October, the season for Cabbage White butterflies is coming to an end, so the good news is that they shouldn’t be laying many more eggs from now…
Now is the time to mulch
Whether you are going to keep on growing through winter, or put your plot to bed until next spring, now is a brilliant time to mulch your veg beds to…
Autumn Slug Prevention
It’s always the most common question… how do I get rid of slugs? This article covers a few methods of prevention and some good practices to use now that autumn…
Do I have to wait for frost before harvesting parsnips? Diary of a Rocket Gardener
I sometimes struggle to just accept gardening advice, no matter how often I see it touted in books and online. I like to find out for myself, to make sure…
What do I do with my strawberry plants now?
Following our Fruit Pruning Guide last week, a few people got in touch to ask what to do with strawberry plants at this time of year, so we thought we’d…
When will my cauliflower form a head?
It’s always a bit nerve-wracking growing cauliflower as it can seem that for ages the plants just grow more and more leaves, and that the cauliflowers themselves aren’t forming. If…
Making Quick Pickles
Here, we give you the very basics to get you started so that you can pickle away to your heart’s content! This is a quick pickle method, suitable for storing…
Autumn Slugs & Snails – Diary of a Rocket Gardener
I’ve been a bit neglectful of my veg patch this year – although the weather wasn’t great in the summer, it allowed me to get away with doing very little…
What Causes a Cabbage to Split Open?
The photo above shows a fairly advanced case of a cabbage splitting. You may notice it at an earlier stage, when it looks as if one or two of the…
Downy Mildew & others – Diary of a Rocket Gardener
I don’t know about you, but I find all the different plant diseases and their symptoms quite difficult to distinguish between. To me, all these ailments – chlorosis, blight, downy…