by Noel | Jul 7, 2016 | CobraHead, Gardening
We’re having a bountiful pea harvest this year. The trellising system I’ve employed for the past few years works very well in allowing the peas to climb tall. The picture above, taken a few weeks ago shows, from left to right, snow peas, capucijner soup peas and two stands of sugar peas. Both varieties of sugar peas are types where you can eat the whole pod, or let them grow larger to eat the peas inside. We usually forgo any attempt to get loose...
by Noel | Dec 15, 2015 | CobraHead, Gardening
The 2015 CobraHead Home Garden was a great success. The garden is never the same from year to year. Weather, seed and plant inputs, labor, luck, and a lot of other variables make each garden season a new experience. That’s an advantage for home gardeners. They don’t need perfection to be successful, and last year’s errors are only lessons for the future. I like to tell beginning gardeners not to worry. Plant enough different stuff and some of it will turn...
by Noel | Apr 25, 2011 | CobraHead, Gardening
Here’s me, yesterday, atop a bed, planting peas. We had a nice little break in the rainy weather, so I took the opportunity to get my peas seeded. I’m using a large piece of plywood to kneel on. The plywood disperses my weight and allows me to get right on top of the bed. It makes the work much easier that trying to reach in from the sides to set the peas in place. The bed has just over 36″ of flat planting width across the top. I’m...
