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...
by Noel | Aug 21, 2010 | CobraHead
CobraHead is actively involved in the Mailorder Gardening Association. Anneliese and I attended the MGA summer conference in downtown Chicago this past week. In addition to the seminars, workshops, roundtables, networking and evening fun, we also had an afternoon tour of the Ball Horticultural Company in West Chicago. Ball has been around since 1905 and is the second largest seed distributor in the United States. Ball’s President and CEO, Anna Ball,...
by Noel | Aug 13, 2010 | CobraHead
Judy just posted a few days ago about how she is trying to pick the zucchini before they get oversized and unusable. I’m not going to go too far about her best intentions going awry, but as you can see, I found a couple of lunkers in the summer squash bed, yesterday. You can see a penny on the big one to give you an idea of its size. I can’t fault Judy for not keeping up. The garden is close to impossible to work in, right now. We have had over a...
