by Geoff | Mar 22, 2011 | CobraHead, Gardening
This year CobraHead again exhibited at the Philadelphia Flower Show. While Anneliese, Noel and I spent most of our time in our booth in the vendor section extolling the virtues of our wares to the passing public, in the evenings I would get a chance to take in the splendid display gardens. Several truly impressed me, but I tend to spend the most time going back to the ones that inspire me to do something in my own garden. This year The Chef’s Rooftop Garden...
by Geoff | Feb 17, 2011 | CobraHead, Gardening
Over the holidays I discovered that I have borderline high blood pressure, due in part to genetics (Gee, thanks Dad!). Although I already eat a relatively healthy diet and exercise regularly, I’ve been researching what other changes I need to make to reverse the trend in my blood pressure before it becomes a more serious problem. Incorporating more herbs into my diet is definitely recommended. Being a gardener, I don’t just want to buy the herbs, I want to grow...
by Geoff | Jan 31, 2011 | Gardening
While planting my asparagus bed the other day, I uncovered a couple of rough earth snakes. This was the third or fourth time that I have found these insect and worm eating snakes in my garden. These two were smaller, but I have seen them get as long as one foot. I like having the snakes in the garden, but I move them over to the brush pile so that I don’t accidentally stab them with a digging fork.
by Geoff | Jan 29, 2011 | Gardening
I decided to reserve the far bed in my garden for a perennial planting of asparagus and thornless blackberries. I picked up ten asparagus crowns at The Natural Gardener earlier this week and chose UC-72, the variety that they recommend for Central Texas. I have grown asparagus before in Wisconsin, but the planting guide that The Natural Gardener provided had some useful advice. First, I prepped the beds by digging two trenches in one of my raised beds about...
by Geoff | Jan 10, 2011 | CobraHead, Recipes
Last week Ted Skenandore came to Austin for a visit and brought me a bundle of dehydrated Oneida White Corn that he grew at the Tsyuhehkwa Farm on the Oneida reservation in northeast Wisconsin. Ted and I used to work together at Tsyuhehkwa running the farm and community agriculture program before I moved to Austin. The Oneidas brought this variety of white corn with them when they resettled in Wisconsin after leaving New York State in the 1820s. It is the same...
