by Anneliese | Apr 27, 2025 | CobraHead
We’ve posted a lot about vegetable growing here, but in recent years, we’ve added more and more ornamental plants to our growing repertoire. Our latest interest is Dahlias! If you’d like to try them, too, we have a few handy tips, courtesy of our friends at Russells Mills Flower Co. Dahlia Growing Tips: When to plant: Plant after danger of frost and when the soil temp is around 60 degrees. That ranges from mid April to Late May, depending on how...
by Anneliese | Jun 28, 2024 | CobraHead
We are so pleased to announce that CobraHead tools are now available in Australia and New Zealand! We’ve had fans from Down Under for many years, and now they no longer have to pay shipping costs that are higher than the price of the tools themselves. Our partner, All Rare Herbs, from Mapleton, Queensland will ship the Original CobraHead and the CobraHead Mini Weeder nationwide (and to NZ!).
by Anneliese | Nov 14, 2023 | CobraHead
Friends of CobraHead will know that we are avid supporters of community gardens and educational gardening projects. And now, we are proud to be a sponsor of the 2024 KidsGardening.org Youth Garden Grant! This year, fifty youth garden programs will be awarded $500 in funding and a collection of gardening supplies for their youth garden program. The application period is open through December 15, 2023. Beginning with 50 awards in 1982, KidsGardening’s Youth...
by Anneliese | Sep 28, 2023 | CobraHead
Here’s something a little bit different for the blog! Last month, one of our eagle-eyed CobraHead fans forwarded us a news article about a significant fossil find in Maryland. Entomologist and paleontology department volunteer at Calvert Marine Museum Emily Bzdyk was fossil hunting on a beach on the Chesapeake Bay when she spotted what turned out to be a 15 million-year-old dolphin skull fossil. And while we think that story is cool enough on its own, we...
by Anneliese | Jan 31, 2023 | CobraHead
Wow, we had a pretty exciting visit from U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin earlier this month! Did you know that when consumers buy items online, websites are not required to display the country of origin for the product being sold because our labeling laws were written before online shopping existed? Senator Baldwin’s bipartisan-sponsored COOL Online Act proposes to update our country of origin labeling laws so online shoppers can know where the products...
