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…
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…
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…
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…
You don’t need to pull up all your plants at the end of the season…Here’s a useful list detailing the plants that you can happily leave in the ground as…
Here are a few common problems that you may encounter when you pull up your carrots this season!
I make this mistake every year… I plant my sprouts, mulch them, protect them from slugs and then put a net over them and forget about them for the summer….
Some of you may find that your cauliflower and cabbage plants haven’t yet produced anything resembling the nice round cabbage or fluffy white caulifower you were hoping for. If you…
If you’re growing winter squashes or pumpkins, you should hopefully have some decent sized fruits on the plants by now and they’ve still got a few weeks to grow and…
Split skin on tomatoes as they ripen is not all that uncommon, but it is quite easily avoided with regular watering… Moving from dry to waterlogged soil will cause the…
This is a great way to use up an abundance of tomatoes and courgettes if you’re finding yourself a little overrun! It’s a simple recipe, and great with a salad…
This is a familiar topic for me. It’s my fourth year of growing aubergines (or perhaps my fifth?) and as ever, no fruits are forming. I’m officially giving up, and…
One of the most common pests in the veg patch, aphids suck the sap from stems and, if numbers are too much, can be quite troublesome with your veg plants….