by Noel | Feb 28, 2024 | CobraHead, Environmental Issues, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
The weather in southern Wisconsin, as everywhere, is alarming. Record one day temperature swings. It was 73 yesterday and 12 this morning. It will be back to the 60’s in a couple days. This new normal will cause mostly grief for gardeners and growers, but I’ll try to take advantage of the warm days to do some garden prep that normally would wait until late March or April. The end of February marks the beginning of seed starting. I’ve put onion and leek seeds into...
by Noel | Nov 21, 2023 | #CobraHeadFolksEat Good, CobraHead, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
Judy and I just got back from three weeks in Texas. I was behind in the garden before we left and three weeks away have put me quite a bit further back. I missed a lot of garden clean up and prep for next season. One fall chore that I never try to miss is getting a bed of garlic planted. When I’m on top of things, garlic goes into the ground the last week of October, but I’ve planted it in late December and still had a fine crop. So my first task upon our return...
by Noel | Aug 29, 2023 | CobraHead, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
This garden is growing too much food! We’re giving it away and eating and freezing all we can. We’ll make some changes next year – a little smaller and a lot more planning. It’s been a great garden year, however, in spite of some really uncooperative weather. To say that we eat good around here, is an understatement. We not only have good food and lots of it, but a variety that gives the cook a wide palate to play with. We have five different zucchini or summer...
by Noel | Jul 27, 2023 | CobraHead, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
July is when food output kicks into high gear. Harvesting is a daily job, with both Judy and me bringing in the bounty. I talked last month about trying out a 2 leader system for the tomatoes. It’s working great. Here are some Brandywines just waiting to turn red. We are already picking, but the deluge is yet to come. Our raspberry harvest is slowing down. We’ve picked over 20 quarts. We were picking a quart a day but that’s now down to about a pint....
by Noel | Jun 27, 2023 | CobraHead, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
June is almost over and it’s going out very uncomfortably as we are experiencing the Canadian smoke that has made a lot of the upper U.S. extremely dangerous and unpleasant Air quality is awful. It’s suggested we do not even go outside. We’re still in a drought, but the heat has gone down. Without daily watering, it would be no garden, this year. But we are gardening, and I’m actually happy with the results, so far. The pea harvest is going great. This is the...
