by Noel | Aug 5, 2012 | CobraHead, Gardening
I missed one of the largest flushes of mushrooms I’ve ever had by three or four days. I didn’t even think to be checking for them in our summer heat and it was just chance that I looked over in the woods, today, to find these. They are on three year old logs, which is all the more surprising. We’ll see if we can dry a lot of them. I think we can, but many are spent and black. Too bad, the fresh shiitake are one our favorite crops....
by Noel | Jul 29, 2012 | CobraHead, Events
This is an absolutely un-retouched picture of Judy lifting a cow over her head. Now you know why I’m so meek and mild mannered. I wouldn’t dare step out of line when flipping a cow around is so easy for her. She could send me to the moon. The picture is courtesy of Organic Valley, the Farmer’s Cooperative headquartered in La Farge, Wisconsin, where Judy and I were vendors for CobraHead at the annual Kickapoo Country Fair on Saturday....
by Noel | Jul 24, 2012 | CobraHead, Gardening
Here Come the TomatoesWith this year’s warm weather, we’ll be picking things from the garden a lot earlier than most years. I’m often late getting things started, but I did a good job of getting the tomatoes, peppers, and cole crops into the ground before the end of May. The early start coupled with the hot weather is giving us veggies in July that we normally don’t start harvesting until August. All in all, it appears we will have a...
by Noel | Jul 4, 2012 | CobraHead, Environmental Issues, Gardening
We have not had significant rainfall for six weeks. I was told that June was the driest recorded here since they started keeping records. Today and tomorrow will be among the two hottest days in south central Wisconsin since the weather service started logging meteorological data. 103 was reported as a high today, highest ever for July. The all-time high temperature record here was 104 in August of 1988. Tomorrow may be hotter yet. In most of the 26 years...
by Noel | Jul 2, 2012 | CobraHead
CobraHead is a member of the Garden Writers Association – GWA. It’s been a great organization, as garden writers have been instrumental in helping us get the word out about CobraHead Tools. The GWA is divided into various regions and we officially belong to Region V, which last Friday had a meeting in Madison. Anneliese and I made a field trip with garden writers from around the Midwest to visit four excellent Madison garden sites. In order, we visited...
