Watch out for these self-seeders
This is the time of year when a lot of herbs and other plants produce their seeds. It can be either very welcome if you are happy to leave your…
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Why do my potatoes disintegrate when boiled?
If your homegrown potatoes are turning to mush when you cook them, you may be wondering why. It’s nearly always to do with growing conditions… Why potatoes can absorb too…
Composting for Beginners
Get ahead of the game for next year by composting old plants and foliage as you harvest and prune this season’s crops. All being well you should have a good…
Growing Celery – Diary of a Rocket Gardener
This is my first year growing celery, and I’ve been a little unsure as to how it would turn out. After doing a bit of digging around to see what…
Tomato, strawberry and basil salad
Our friends over at Cornish Sea Salt have sent us this unusual salad recipe, and it is delicious! It is well worth trying this pairing of tomatoes and strawberries. Look…
Growing Aubergines – Diary of a Rocket Gardener
This is my 3rd attempt growing aubergines, and I was hoping it would be 3rd time lucky. In the first year my plants formed a few small fruits which sadly…
What can I plant now?
As we creep further and further through the summer, there are just a couple of weeks left to plant up before we move on to autumn plants. Now is the…
3 Courgette Cakes
In our very humble opinion, the best thing you can do with a glut of courgettes is bake cakes, lots of cakes! These are our 3 favourite courgette cake recipes –…
Ants in your Plants
We’ve had quite a few queries in the past few days from customers worried about ants in their veg patch. They are definitely very active at the moment, and we’ve…
My cauliflowers have no heart! Diary of a Rocket Gardener
This is the first time I’ve grown cauliflower. I’m not a huge cauliflower fan, and usually one or two meals a year with cauliflower cheese suffice, but I wanted to…
Damping Off
It is not uncommon, especially back in June when the weather was much cooler, for newly planted veg plants to suffer from something referred to as ‘damping off’ which causes…
Planting a herb garden – Diary of a Rocket Gardener
I always enjoy seeing my 2 herb gardens come into their full glory during summer – the marjoram and oregano both start flowering and everything seems to take on that…