by Geoff | Jan 28, 2013 | Gardening
It’s January in Austin and already time to plant early spring crops. I took advantage of the tomato trellis that I used last year to support this year’s snap peas. While cleaning out the bed, I worked around a lemon balm plant. Once I got the bed cleaned out, I added a couple of buckets of compost and created furrows for the peas. I wanted to take advantage of the space in the center of the bed, so I transplanted the Chinese Kale that I had started...
by Judy | Jan 16, 2013 | CobraHead, Recipes
We still have about 4 or 5 pounds of garden carrots in the refrigerator. Noel started a late crop the end of August and harvested what was left of them mid December. We scrubbed and bagged them in clear plastic bags and found a spot in the refrigerator (barely). We munch on a few raw ones just about every day – they’re so sweet and tasty. The other day I was in the mood for roasted carrots but since my oven was zapped in the last ice storm (we’re...
by Noel | Jan 13, 2013 | CobraHead, Gardening
I had two sweet potatoes left over from last year. I had used them to grow cuttings for last year’s garden. They were starting to shrivel up but both had put out numerous long sprouts. The sprouts were rather anemic and one plant had an aphid infestation, but I thought I’d give a try to saving cuttings from both to get a real head start on having lots of good rooted slips ready to go into the ground in late May. Sweet potatoes are tenacious at...
