Diary of a Rocket Gardener: Why I’ll be growing autumn raspberries…
Lately, the weather has been a little uninspiring and spending time out in the veg patch to plant up a fruit garden as I’d intended this month hasn’t exactly appealed….
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Diary of a Rocket Gardener – Why hasn’t my cabbage formed a head?
Back in July I planted out several red cabbage seedlings with visions of harvesting beautifully neat, deep purple cabbages to cook up for Christmas Day. Sadly, the vast majority of…
Blown over! Diary of a Rocket Gardener
So I went away for a long weekend. It was great timing to go “upcountry” as I got to enjoy all that snow! Loved it! Unfortunately Cornwall didn’t get snow…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener- good things come to those that wait
Well it is getting close to that time when there’s not a huge amount to harvest in the veg patch. Once all my parsnips, sprouts and leeks are up (inevitably…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener: They’re rocketing!
Wow! I am super excited to see how amazingly well my pak choi and wild rocket are doing! I planted them in September, having tried to grow them for the…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener: Fighting winter weeds
I think I had lulled myself into a false sense of security regarding weeds over autumn and winter. I subconsciously believed that all the weeds in the world would suddenly…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener: Mice in the greenhouse
In mid-September I planted several winter lettuces, spinach plants and chard in my greenhouse for the winter. The lettuce shot up and I’ve been harvesting leaves since mid-October. The chard…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener: When to harvest sprouts
Look at my incredible sprouts!! I’m very excited to have grown these for the first time this year, and they’ve done so well in spite of slugs and caterpillars galore…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener: Autumn Crops Already!
So, last year I tried growing a small handful of things over autumn and winter, and I didn’t really know what I was doing. This year, I’ve been following the…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener: Washing caterpillars from broccoli
Ok, I think harvesting this glorious looking broccoli head might well be my favourite veg achievement for this year. I’ve never grown my own calabrese broccoli before and there was…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener – tips for planting autumn veg
Well it is exciting times in my veg patch this week…I’ve cleared a whole load of space and planted some 100 autumn veg plants for what I hope will be…
Diary of a Rocket Gardener: When to harvest squash and pumpkins
Hmm, I’ve been in a quandary this week….should I harvest my winter squashes now or should I leave them a little while longer? If I leave them, will they over…