by Noel | Nov 7, 2010 | CobraHead, Events
Saturday was a beautiful day to be out in Southern Wisconsin. It was sunny and crisp with a high temperature of about 47 degrees. For the first week of November it was quite pleasant. Our fall has been a lot warmer and drier than normal. As nice as it was outside, Judy and I spent most of the day indoors doing a little show called The Herb Fair sponsored by the Madison Herb Society. But the nice weather got a lot of people out so we had a good crowd and sold...
by Noel | Oct 22, 2010 | CobraHead, Gardening
Here is some recent CobraHead news that I want to share. Anneliese was elected to the Mailorder Gardening Association Board of Directors. The Mailorder Gardening Association has been an excellent organization for CobraHead. Many of the major garden catalog firms are members and are our customers. We have been active with MGA since we joined and now Anneliese will get to be involved in a lot of MGA planning. We know it will help her in learning more about the...
by Noel | Oct 17, 2010 | CobraHead, Gardening
As a small business without a big advertising budget, CobraHead relies heavily on testimonials from happy users to get our story out to the world. Yesterday, we were exceptionally pleased to be made aware of Ciaran Burke’s Garden Blog. Ciaran, a professional gardener, garden writer, and photographer from County Mayo, in western Ireland, has some very nice things to say about our tool. Ciaran was introduced to CobraHead by our good friend Shawna Coranado, a...
by Noel | Oct 3, 2010 | CobraHead, Gardening
This big guy showed up while I was down on my hands and knees digging potatoes. It landed right in front of me and didn’t try to fly away when I picked it up. It is a really pretty moth. Almost the whole underwing is pink, and the moth shows off the bright color when its wings are open. All the pictures I shot with the wings open are blurred because of the moth’s wingbeats, but I posted one anyway, just to show what it looks like. I thought it was...
by Noel | Sep 2, 2010 | Gardening
I’m going to be quite happy with my squash plantings this year. I didn’t get my seeds started until the first week of June. Since I had no beds set up for the squash, I just cleared out the overgrown weeds in my compost area and stuck the seedlings in the extremely rich soil. I talk about the June planting here, and how well the vines were doing in August, here Now the pumpkin vines are collapsing but the rest of the vines are holding up pretty...
