Welcome to Rocket Gardens' blog!

From feedback we've received over the last few months, it seems that lots of you would like to know a bit more about who the people behind Rocket Gardens are and also the opportunity to have a bit more of a two-way conversation with us.

We're new to this blogging lark, so do bear with us to begin with but feel free to give us feedback about whether you find what we're writing interesting. We're hoping that the Rocket blog will be:

• a way to learn more about what goes on behind the scenes at Rocket HQ


• somewhere to answer your questions about planting, harvesting and cooking somewhere you can share you successes, advice and ask us any burning gardening questions about planting, harvesting and cooking somewhere you can share you successes, advice and tips with us and other Rocketeers... and ask us any burning gardening questions you might have.


• Altough there's quite a few of us that make up the Rocket Gardens team, to start with, it'll be Rob and me (Kimberley) who'll be the main Rocket bloggers. However, there may well be other members of the team who add bits and pieces as we go along.

Rob lives by the maxim that there's no point doing something small when you can do something HUGE! He's second-in-command at Rocket Gardens and oversees the operations of the farm, making sure all the baby plants are taken care of until they're passed over to you. Rob tends to get quite excited about all things Rocket Gardens; particularly those that don't involve sitting at a desk and this can sometimes get out of hand. Last year, for example, he decided that simply taking plants to Glastonbury just wasn't enough to show how great Rocket Gardens really is - next thing we know, he constructed a rather large barn, complete with a roof made entirely of seedlings and is transporting it up the A30 on the back of a trailer.

It's all good fun though and certainly keeps life exciting down on the farm. Rob will be writing about what he's getting up to and what that means for your Rocket Gardens.

I'm Kimberley and honestly, I'm pretty new to this gardening game, having lived in the city for several years. Being Rob's sister though, I couldn't escape Rocket World forever and last Summer I gave into the pull of my Cornish roots and returned home. I now work at Rocket HQ, supposedly focusing on the PR side of things but I quite often find myself doing slightly odd things like transporting 5000 bags for packing cabbage to a windswept field on the edge of the farm. I still haven't worked out whether this is because of my diverse range of skills or simply because I'm Rob's sister and therefore easily manipulated.

This year will be my first attempt at growing fruit and vegetables but I'm fully intending to throw myself wholeheartedly into living the good life and I can't wait to get planting my little seedlings. I'm going to be writing about my attempts to get to grips with gardening, as well as sharing advice, tips and recipes that I manage to pick up along the way.

So that's it for now! See you back here in a few days time, when we'll (hopefully) have something interesting for you to read.

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