by Noel | Jan 30, 2012 | CobraHead, Gardening
Geoff posted last week about the heat mat set up he is using to start some pepper plants, here. I use a heat mat and grow-lights as well to start peppers, tomatoes, and other vegetable seedlings that need a jump start, and I’ve also found the set up useful to give some bottom heat to my sweet potato starts well ahead of the time I need to get my peppers started. Since I don’t need very much space for the sweet potatoes, I use the mat and lights to...
by Noel | Jan 6, 2012 | CobraHead, Environmental Issues, Gardening
The weather in Wisconsin has been super freaky. With highs of 50 yesterday and again today following a December with no snow and exceptionally mild temperatures, a lot of the locals are saying, “what the hey, this ain’t all bad!” I have to say yes and no. It’s kind of scary, and from a gardener’s perspective, in most ways not so good. I love a deep snow cover on my garden beds. The snow offers insulation and moisture. And too...
by Noel | Dec 18, 2011 | CobraHead
The Winter Solstice is December 22nd this year, but we celebrated a few days early because it’s always easier to party hard on Saturday night as opposed to Thursday.Here is Anneliese supplicating the winter spirits in front of the solstice fire while Geoff is a rather bemused observer.The ancients took the winter solstice very seriously. For some it meant appealing to the gods to make sure the days did not keep getting shorter until it was an...
by Noel | Dec 12, 2011 | CobraHead, Gardening
The outdoor season is over for my 2011 Wisconsin garden. I may do a little more clean up, and possibly drag in a few leaves to cover up some north beds, but the frost has already penetrated deep and there is nothing left to harvest. There will be no more weeding or working the soil. All my efforts now are in preparing for next year. Gardening patterns and habits repeat themselves as you learn what has to be done to ensure a good harvest, but that hardly means...
by Noel | Dec 7, 2011 | CobraHead, Recipes
Recipes are normally Judy’s and Geoff’s department and what you see here is totally Judy’s creation, I’m just putting it down on the blog because I found it way more than worthy. Judy had to grab the phone to take an order and that’s a good thing. On her way past me as she went to her desk she whispered, “stir the veggies.” When I went to the stove, the skillet looked so colorful I knew I had to take a picture. What we...
