Moving Up in the Gardening World

Here is some recent CobraHead news that I want to share.  Anneliese was elected to the Mailorder Gardening Association Board of Directors.  The Mailorder Gardening Association has been an excellent organization for CobraHead.  Many of the major garden catalog firms are members and are our customers.  We have been active with MGA since we joined and now Anneliese will get to be involved in a lot of MGA planning.  We know it will help her in learning more about the...

New East Austin Vegetable Garden

Last week I gathered up some folks to help dig a new vegetable garden with friends Natalina and Kiko and their new daughter, Lola.  Natalina grew up with gardening in San Antonio and Kiko spent part of his childhood on a coffee farm in Colombia, but this was their first Austin garden.  Martin Perna came out to help with the endeavor. Natalina and I used to both volunteer with a youth organization here in Austin.   Kiko and Martin are both working musicians and...

Eggplant Parmesan

Our eggplant harvest was prolific this year.  The extremely hot summer we had in Wisconsin probably had something to do with that!  Eggplant is a great addition to pasta sauces and veggie sautés’ but our all-time favorite is eggplant parmesan. The original recipe came from the The Vegetarian Epicure by Anna Thomas.  Over the course of many years our recipe has changed a little but the basic concept is the same.  Sauté breaded eggplant slices and place in a baking...

Tell Us About a New Gardener and Win Great Prizes!

Do you know a young gardener who you would like to help succeed? We would love to know more about them!  Tell us about a young or new gardener in your life, and you could win great prizes for that gardener and yourself! The Contest: Let us know about a new gardener that you want to help out.  Write three paragraphs or more telling us about them, their challenges as a new gardener, and why you want to help them succeed.  This gardener can be anyone from a young...

A CobraHead Fan in Ireland

As a small business without a big advertising budget, CobraHead relies heavily on testimonials from happy users to get our story out to the world.  Yesterday, we were exceptionally pleased to be made aware of Ciaran Burke’s Garden Blog.  Ciaran, a professional gardener, garden writer, and photographer from County Mayo, in western Ireland, has some very nice things to say about our tool. Ciaran was introduced to CobraHead by our good friend Shawna Coranado, a...

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