by Geoff | Aug 29, 2010 | Recipes
My cucumber plants have finished producing for the season, but I have no complaints. I had a bonanza this year. The Japanese Climbing Cucumbers not only grew up the trellis where I planted them, but also vined around the amaranth plants next to them and spread out of the garden over the border fence and onto the grass. The New Zealand Spinach got smothered out in the process, but frankly I enjoyed the cukes more. Despite giving away the cucumbers to friends and...
by Anneliese | Aug 26, 2010 | CobraHead
Hey, are you on Facebook? So are we! But we know we have a lot more fans than our page currently indicates, and we’re counting on you to help us find them. So here’s the deal: help us get to 1000 fans by September 21, and we’ll give all fans a coupon worth 20% off everything on our site. This coupon will be good for ONE DAY ONLY on September 28. There seems to be some debate amongst the CobraHead team as to whether 1000 fans is either too lofty...
by Anneliese | Aug 25, 2010 | CobraHead, Gardening
Well, we Wisconsin CobraHeaders finally got our act together and started making videos in the garden. This is one of our first attempts from yesterday. Here, Noel deftly extracts a tap-rooted thistle from his pepper bed. We will be posting many more how-to videos as we continue to make them. If you have any videos of the CobraHead in action in your garden, we would love to see them! We may even post them here!
by Geoff | Aug 23, 2010 | Gardening
One of the benefits of not mowing my lawn as often or thoroughly as might be indicated by societal norms is that I get all sorts of interesting and sometimes useful plants that just show up. One of these is Chile Pequin, a semi-wild hot pepper of Texas and Mexico. Sown by birds that do me the favor of encasing the seeds in a small dose of fertilizer, I now have one of these shrubby pepper plants in both the front and back yard of my Austin house. I enjoy...
by Judy | Aug 22, 2010 | CobraHead, Recipes
This recipe was a collaborative effort between Geoff and me. Quinoa potato soup was a staple in Ecuador where Geoff spent a year studying in college. We made up a recipe based upon his memory of an Ecuadorean soup. Due to an abundance of summer squash in the garden we added that in, and I thought a bit of fresh cilantro wouldn’t hurt. It still seemed to need a little more spark so Geoff added some chipotle peppers that we had left over from another dish. ...
