Diary of a Rocket Gardener

As summer turns to autumn and most of my veg plants are now harvestable, I’m learning some valuable veg lessons. Here they are… Tomatoes (the cordon varieties that grow upright)…

So this year I planted out my veg seedlings fairly late in the season – some went in the ground in June, others in early July. I was trying to…

Right, I’m off on hols for three weeks. (Lucky me!) I’m leaving my veg patch in the capable (?) hands of my next door neighbour. So basically it’s not going…

This weekend I’ve had a disaster in the veg patch. I’m gutted. I went out to dig up all my beautiful potatoes only to find that there were small black…

Well, I should have learnt from this last year with my courgettes, but I got it wrong again! A few weeks ago I planted two pumpkin plants in a grow…

This week I honestly feel like all I do is battle against pests. It was crows in the chicken coop last weekend (my scarecrow proved not to be very effective…

Ok, this post is not so much about my veg patch as it is about my chickens. But I figured many Weekly Veg Out readers might also keep chickens, so decided…

Around about this time last year I think I was blogging about the sad demise of most of my brassicas…those that weren’t pecked to death by pigeons were plagued by caterpillars…

Last summer I built a makeshift greenhouse out of old reclaimed windows. I grew all my tomatoes, peppers and chillies in pots in the greenhouse whilst the ground was covered with…

Having spent most of last week pondering my plot, this week I’ve started planting. I should have learnt my lesson last year – that planting always takes longer than I expect…