Diary of a Rocket Gardener

Well, I am over the moon with these three new arrivals! If you read my post last week, you’ll know that I was a little anxious about the late hatching…

I should probably have called this post Diary of a Broody Hen, as really this is my hen’s story and not mine. But since she can’t talk, I thought I…

After my post last week, about my poor stunted sweetcorn, the Rocket Gardens team told me that several other customers emailed to say that their sweetcorn was also stunted this…

I can’t quite get over what a strange growing season it has been this year. I thought I’d do a little round up of what’s been going on. I know…

So, this year is the first year in a long time that I’ve not had a greenhouse (it is falling apart and I really need to dismantle it safely ahead…

I’ve had an interesting time this season, watching some plants absolutely thrive (salads, brassicas, leeks, parsnips, beetroot – they are all looking super!) and then watching other plants struggle to…

Spending a little time in the veg garden yesterday evening, I noticed that my beans, squash, courgettes and cucumbers are still struggling to really get going. Although the temperatures have…

Like so many other growers in the UK, I’ve been struggling with a lot of slugs and pests this year. My poor beans. Honestly, they’ve taken a bit of a…

It has been two to three weeks since I planted out (around about 22nd May) and I’m really noticing how slowly things are taking off this season. It’s strange to…

Harrumph! That’s what I say. I planted all my veggies last weekend, and have been having a bit of a battle ever since. Each day I go out to have…

Does anyone else get Empty Plot Anxiety? (I made that up. It’s not a thing, but it should be.) I have written before that my favourite time to plant out…

So, I talked last week about how I had let my veg plot get a little (a lot) overgrown and wild and how I was working to restore it to…