Garlic Planting in Open Raised Beds

by | Oct 31, 2015 | CobraHead, Gardening

Our target for planting garlic is the end of October. We hit it this year and I’m always happier when the cloves are set for their winter sprouting. Yesterday, I planted 76 saved seeds and added 38 new seeds, Lorz Italian, a softneck variety we purchased last week from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, our neighbors across the aisle at the Mother Earth News Fair in Topeka. I had a bed nearly ready to go. Potatoes had been harvested from it, earlier.  It was...

2015 Sweet Potato Harvest

by | Oct 28, 2015 | CobraHead, Gardening

As the garden season winds down, we’re happy to report that we’ve had another great sweet potato harvest.  I like to remind people that it’s easy to grow sweet potatoes even up north, here in Wisconsin. Here are the potato vines, about two weeks ago. We already had a light frost  and the leaves were pretty moth eaten from Japanese beetles.  I decided not to wait longer to get them out of the ground. I stacked all the vines up in the center of the...

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