by Noel | Jan 28, 2017 | CobraHead, Gardening
It’s the end of January. We still have a lot of potatoes stored in the barn. Barn temperatures are often well below freezing but the potatoes are in good shape. Last fall, before I put the potatoes in storage, I modified my straw bale walls and replaced the bales on top with insulating foam panels. It was a good move. It’s way easier sliding off panels than wrestling straw bales when you need some potatoes. The barn stays cleaner and the potatoes seem to be...
by Judy | Jan 26, 2017 | CobraHead, Recipes
As you may have read before, Noel’s sweet potato harvest produced almost 125 pounds of edible roots. He planted the same number of plants (18) that he has for the last several years but we had such significant rainfall throughout 2016 that the potatoes grew bigger, therefore increased our total poundage. With that being said . . . we have a lot of sweet potato eating to do. Since sweet potatoes are, well . . . sweet, I like to counter balance them with...
by Noel | Jan 24, 2017 | CobraHead, Garden Tools, Gardening
I started CobraHead to sell a tool I designed. I was quite sure my tool would be a help to a lot of gardeners. Since then, sales have proven what I knew when I started, the tool was a good one. Supposedly it was Emerson who said, “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.” I can assure you Ralph got it wrong. You can have a great product, but you have to sell it and sell it hard before anyone will even know it’s out there. ...
by Noel | Jan 16, 2017 | CobraHead, Garden Tools, Gardening
The CobraHead Weeder and Cultivator was chosen by Ezvid Wiki as the #2 garden weeder for 2017. That means we are #1 small hand weeder since their #1 selection is a stand up weeder for weeding the lawn. Here’s the link: https://wiki.ezvid.com/best-manual-weeders
