by Geoff | Apr 3, 2012 | Gardening
We are pleased to announce the two winners of the Botanical Interests’ Seed Collections! Janiece won the Basic Bounty Veggie Garden Collection. Her favorite vegetable to grow is the Sugar Snap pea. Chris McDiarmid won the Heirloom Tomato Seed Collection. That’s good, because her favorite vegetable to grow is the tomato. We picked our two winners at random from the 94 entrants who all left a comment on our blog naming their favorite vegetable to grow. Tomatoes...
by Geoff | Mar 22, 2012 | CobraHead, Gardening
Our friends at Botanical Interests have given us two of their seed collections to give away. The Basic Bounty Veggie Garden Seed Collection includes Bean-Bush Blue Lake 274, Corn-Bodacious, Leaf Lettuce-Salad Bowl Blend Organic, Sweet Pepper-Sweet California Wonder Organic, Radish-Cherry Belle, Summer Squash-Black Beauty Zucchini, Tomato-Better Bush. The Heirloom Tomato Seed Collection includes Cherry Red & Yellow Pear Organic, Aunt Ruby’s German Green...
by Geoff | Feb 14, 2012 | CobraHead, Recipes
Happy Valentines Day. If you’re like me, the first food that comes to mind when you think of romance is the sweet potato. This dish is usually served as a Christmas time children’s treat in Mexico. However, hand feeding this to your special someone will turn it into an adult dish. I also added a couple additional spices to increase the romance level. Normally, I don’t sweeten sweet potatoes and I almost always cook them in ways that heighten...
by Geoff | Feb 13, 2012 | Gardening
Ten days ago I pruned my peach and plumcot trees. Given our exceptionally mild winter, the first week of February was already on the late end of optimal pruning time. I still consider myself a novice pruner, but while at the State Master Gardener conference in California last year, three basic principles for fruit tree pruning were clarified for me during a workshop. With both of these trees that I planted in 2009, my goal is to achieve an open-centered...
by Geoff | Jan 24, 2012 | Gardening
We’re pleased to announce that our BioMarkerTM plant markers won a Green Thumb award from the Direct Gardening Association this year. Now in its 15th year, the Green Thumb Awards recognize the best new plants and gardening products available each year from gardening catalogs and websites. The Direct Gardening Association (formerly the Mailorder Gardening Association) sponsors the annual Green Thumb Awards. For more information, visit the Green Thumb Awards page....
