by Noel | Oct 31, 2007 | CobraHead, Gardening
T-posts are everywhere in my garden. They are indispensable fixtures in the system I’ve developed. They hold up my tomato cages. I make a little corral with T-posts and jute to keep the corn from blowing over. In the north beds where I have a permanent planting of asparagus, a T-post corral keeps the fronds from falling into the paths. I trellis melons and peas with T-posts and fencing. For the last three years I’ve put a fence around the entire south...
by Noel | Oct 28, 2007 | CobraHead, Gardening
I got my garlic in yesterday. I’m happy when I get my garlic planted in October. Some years that doesn’t happen. I’ve planted garlic in April and still had a nice harvest, but the bulbs were smaller. One year I planted in December. I had to break through frosted ground to get the cloves in. They produced very well. But when I get them planted in October, the garlic starts sprouting over the winter and I almost always get a good harvest. I also...
by Noel | Oct 23, 2007 | CobraHead
“Hi Noel, Hope all is well. I saw you up in Eau Claire a couple weeks ago but didn’t get a chance to say ‘hi’. See enclosed photo (use it if you like) of our volunteer with a CobraHead. We used them to clear out old sand between our bluestone patios so we could replace with fresh stuff. Worked great! Take care! Sincerely, Mark Dwyer” We got the above photo and message this morning from Mark Dwyer, the Director of Horticulture at...
by Anneliese | Oct 15, 2007 | Environmental Issues
I travel quite a bit for work. It can get pretty tiring, but most of the time I really enjoy it. Drinking a lot of tea is one of the ways I try to keep from getting too worn down. I learned fairly quickly that there’s no guarantee that the airport, hotel and convention center coffee bars will have decent tea (if they have it at all), so I started bringing my own tea when I travel. Usually I go for oolong and green teas, but I also try to have various herbal...
by Noel | Oct 9, 2007 | Gardening
Our gardens are suffering some neglect as we’ve all been doing a lot of time on the road. After almost a week at the Garden Writers Conference in Oklahoma City, we came back to find several yellow summer squash a little past their best picking date, but still quite edible. The red kuri and the huge sweet dumplings came from seed saved from store bought squash. The rest were from packaged seed. In addition to the winter squash shown in the picture, we have...
