Bindweed – CobraHead’s Weed of the Year

Bindweed – CobraHead’s Weed of the Year

For our first, and probably last, annual award for the worst weed in the garden, this year goes to bindweed, hands down. Weed of the year requirements are simple.  What weed is causing me the most grief or the most work to control in the garden?  This year bindweed is way ahead.  It’s hard to kill, it has deep tap roots that easily snap off. After breaking off the plant from the root, the root quickly puts out new growth. The stems wind around other plants and can...
Sweet Corn

Sweet Corn

We had an excellent corn harvest.  Unfortunately, raccoons ate about two dozen ears due to my negligence in leaving the garden gate open one night  Nevertheless, we still had a lot of corn to eat and freeze.  We froze 16 bags of corn, each 1.5 cups for a total of just over 12 pounds.  We are stuffed with sweet corn, right now, and we’ll have delicious frozen corn to carry us through the winter.    
Come on Spring!

Come on Spring!

The vernal equinox of March 20th was supposed to mark the beginning of spring. Somebody forgot to let Wisconsin know.  It’s the end of April, and we are just beginning to see weather that in any way lends itself to gardening. Indecent weather and the fact that I missed March totally while on a vacation in Texas have put me behind in the garden, but I’m working to make up for time lost. I direct seeded onions and leeks into a hoop tunnel.  They are sprouting and...
A Vacation from Gardening

A Vacation from Gardening

January Garden While this may not have been the coldest January we’ve seen, it was still pretty cold. Depending on your gardening attitude, the frigid Wisconsin winter can be good, or not. I rate it very good, and other lazy gardeners are in my camp. There is absolutely nothing to do. Everything outside is snow-covered and the ground is hard as a rock. Who would want to be out there, anyway? Nevertheless, even lazy gardeners have to do some planning, and January...
2021 Garden

2021 Garden

I like to grow food. My partner likes to cook. Those complementary interests lead to great meals. This year we had another good garden and as every year, some crops grew better than others. The advantage of growing a lot of different food is that a singular crop failure will never put you in dire straits. I’ve been able to spend time pursuing my hobby, but I hardly live in the garden and I consider myself a lazy gardener. Trying to get the most output from the...
Not Quite Ready for Spring

Not Quite Ready for Spring

Most years I use the month of November to get my garden ready for the next spring’s planting. Preparation includes removing all the trellising I’ve set up, a thorough weeding of most of the beds, cultivating and shaping the beds, and covering both my garden plots with a thick layer of leaves. This November was different, and the garden is still a weedy mess, with only a partial leaf cover and most of the beds unprepared.  I lost almost three weeks of work...

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