Diary of a Rocket Gardener

In the spirit of New Year’s celebrations, I’ve been pondering the coming year in my veg garden and deciding what new creative things I might have a go at. It…

Just a quick one from me this week as I haven’t been out in the veg patch much other than to harvest a few greens here and there. My one…

I was thinking about this cleaning problem again this week as I picked up some green-tinged netting that had been blown across the veg patch. A year or two ago,…

I thought I’d write a bit about leaf miners this week, because they seem to be strangely active in my veg garden. I know that normally they would not be…

If you’ve got some swede to harvest, then you could of course make a puree or a mash, but a Cornish Pasty would be even better….and they are so good…

The end of October was pretty mild here in Cornwall, and we had damp weather too. I had to open up the zip doors of my little grow tunnel to…

I thought I’d report back on how I’ve been getting on with the growing tunnel that I decided to buy. In my last post, I was debating whether or not…

This is the first autumn that I haven’t had a greenhouse to grow in, and I miss it. My greenhouse crops were always a little healthier over autumn and winter…

I have a kind of love-hate relationship with this time of year in my veg garden. Part of me feels a huge sigh of disappointment at the general messiness of…

This is a bit of a random post from me this week, but so many people comment on my runner bean slicer that I have begun to realise that it’s…

I mentioned recently how several plants had been growing super slowly this summer, and I’m back on that subject again this week. The reason? My beans. Finally, I am actually…

I don’t have any answers for you in my post this week, so there’s my initial confession or veg growing caveat. But I do have questions and ideas, and perhaps…