by Noel | Oct 28, 2012 | CobraHead, Gardening
Carrots in Hoop TunnelI planted a bed of carrots and beets on August 12th. Here are the carrots, eleven weeks later. They’re doing great and we’re harvesting some fairly large ones, already. The beets are doing just fine, too. I’m hoping to keep the harvest going well past when the hard freezes set in by using a low hoop tunnel with two protective layers. The outside frame of the tunnel is covered with clear poly sheeting. Directly over the...
by Anneliese | Oct 19, 2012 | Recipes
It’s not often that I feel the need to shout to the world how great a product is, but I’ve wanted to do just that about Reallygoods for quite some time. I first encountered Reallygoods about a year and a half ago when Noel and I were on a road trip through central Wisconsin. Our longtime family friends, Chris and Steve McDiarmid, were the proprietors of a food and wine shop in the village of Coloma, and we decided we should take a quick break from our travels to...
by Judy | Oct 12, 2012 | CobraHead, Recipes
It’s never too late to learn something new. I’ve always wanted to try making my own sauerkraut or ‘fermented cabbage’ as they say now days. I did try making it in a quart jar a couple of years ago but when I saw a little mold on top I threw it out and never tried again. What I didn’t know at the time was that you could scrape the white mold off the top and the cabbage underneath the liquid was perfectly fine to eat. Last spring I sat in on a fermentation...
by Noel | Oct 10, 2012 | CobraHead, Gardening, Recipes
Continuing the discussion of sweet potatoes which I started with a post about my harvest a couple days ago, these are the last two sweet potatoes from the 2011 harvest. Sweet potatoes, when stored properly, last a long time. We’ve frequently kept them well over a year. Getting a crop to last that long without having to freeze or can makes sweet potatoes ideal for the home grower. Our storage method is simple. Lay out the sweet potatoes to dry for two...
by Noel | Oct 3, 2012 | CobraHead, Gardening
With frost forecast for later this week and knowing that I would be out of town, I decided to harvest my sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes cannot tolerate frost, so I did not want to take a chance on losing any of my crop. I had previously put a clear plastic cover over the bed as we had some nippy temperatures a week ago. The leaves under the plastic were already showing black from the previous frost and wilting badly, so I didn’t think I would lose anything...
