by Noel | May 25, 2021 | CobraHead, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
May is the month of plants and my busiest month in the garden. I have beds to prepare for seeding and planting, and I’m trying to get as many live plants and seeds into the ground as I can. Like every year, I’m way behind where I would like to be at this time, but I always end up with a decent garden so I just keep plugging along and hoping for the best. Here are a few things I’ve been working on. Pea Trellis Peas and Lettuce The peas are looking very...
by Noel | Apr 27, 2021 | CobraHead, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
Sweet Potato Starts Last month I wrote about a failure of my own making with some onion starts. This month the news is much better. I have a healthy and happy box of sweet potato starts that should be large and strong when it comes time to put them in the ground at the end of May. I get my starts from 2 year old sweet potatoes that I’ve allowed to sprout in the basement. I’ve talked about this method before: ...
by Noel | Mar 26, 2021 | CobraHead, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
I’m usually pretty good with my seed starting. I’ve got a light and heat setup that I’ve been modifying over the years and I almost always get good starts from my seeds, especially onions. This year I messed up. I had two flats of yellow onions under a grow light and over a heat mat, and I didn’t pay attention for one day. That proved costly. The onions were just starting to sprout, and they got too dry and too hot. I killed off most of them. I wasn’t sure...
by Noel | Jan 21, 2021 | CobraHead
We’ve foraged a lot of wild mushrooms in our yard over the years, and we’ve also purposely grown shiitake on logs several times, but we’ve never grown mushrooms in the house before. The mushroom is closely related to more familiar Lion’s Mane – Hericium erinaceus. It’s a beautiful fungus that looks like coral. It has a little sea-food taste and it easy to work with. The stem part is quite chewy, but if it’s chopped small, that’s not an...
by Noel | Nov 23, 2020 | CobraHead, Gardening
I’m ahead of the game! At least for the moment. All my open beds are weeded and shaped up, and I’ve put them to bed for the winter with the thickest leaf covering they have ever enjoyed. I reap huge benefits by covering the garden with leaves. The soil remains softer as the leaves act as an insulator and protector from winter weather. Weed growth is almost non-existent, no sunshine – no weeds. In the spring, many of the beds will be ready to...
