by Noel | Aug 12, 2013 | CobraHead
CobraHead garden tools received their most important single piece of publicity recently with an excellent mention in the New York Times. The article by Bob Tedeschi, who writes for the Times under the byline “The Pragmatist”, was titled “Ergonomic Tools that Prune Away Gardening Pains”. It appeared online on July 3, here, and also appeared in print on July 4th with the title “The Pains of a Garden, Pruned Away”, on page D1....
by Noel | Jul 3, 2013 | CobraHead, Gardening
The strawberry harvest is over for this year. There are still a few small berries in the beds, but the days of having to go out morning and night to keep up, and being able to pick quarts at a time are finished. This year’s harvest was good. I’ve done a reasonable job this year of keeping the beds weeded, always a difficult task. I took some pictures of the six weeds that showed up the most this spring. Ranked relative to occurrence and...
by Noel | Jun 2, 2013 | CobraHead, Gardening
Volunteer Salad Greens We’re getting lots of volunteer lettuces and other salad greens this year. I’m transplanting some to the pea bed and elsewhere, but most we are just harvesting the whole plant where they are growing. I talked about letting salad greens bolt and go to seed in a post last September: http://blog.cobrahead.com/2012/09/10/simple-seed-saving/ In addition to some lettuce seed which I saved and scattered throughout the garlic bed, a...
by Noel | May 5, 2013 | CobraHead, Gardening
I try to keep three beds of strawberries in rotation and moving through the garden. Bed one contains the newly transplanted plants. Bed two holds one year old plants, and the third bed, two year old plants. New plants yield little, but the one and two year old plants yield well. Fall transplanting might make for better yields, but I prefer to transplant in spring when my clayey beds are very wet. The strawberries are less susceptible to stress and need very...
by Noel | Apr 29, 2013 | CobraHead, Gardening
Dan Keil is the President of the Stephen Decatur Rose Society in Decatur, Illinois. He has let us know several times that he really likes the Cobrahead Weeder and Cultivator for weeding and maintaining his 460 roses. I’m not a rosarian, but I’ve learned that keeping grass from taking over is a major issue. That’s not much different than for just about anything that’s cultivated, but grasses really mess up roses and Dan does not want to use...
