by Noel | May 30, 2025 | CobraHead, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
I work harder in the garden in May than in any other month. As usual at this time of the year, I’m way behind, but I’m still happy with what’s done so far. The south beds are neatly fenced in to protect the peas and other delicious delicacies from the marauding deer in the neighborhood. I’ve got all my trellises up, and the beds are in pretty good shape, with only one bed totally overgrown with weeds out of the eighteen in the plot. This is my holding bed....
by Judy | May 30, 2025 | #CobraHeadFolksEat Good, #JudyValdes, Anise Hyssop, CobraHead, Herb Salad, Spring Herbs
Anise Hyssop is a perennial herb, an excellent pollinator, and it tastes like licorice. It’s one of my favorite additions to a salad. Adding 4 or 5 licorice-flavored leaves (slivered) to a salad enhances its flavor significantly. While I was ‘foraging’ in our own garden for the anise hyssop I also picked some baby spring plants, including cilantro, mustard, kale, chives, spring onions, broccoli rabe and asparagus. I had such a big picking that I didn’t even...
by Noel | Apr 29, 2025 | CobraHead, Gardening, Growing Peas, Vegetable Growing
The peas were planted three weeks ago on April 12th. Spring peas are an important and reliable crop in our garden. I try to plant them early, when the chance of another killer freeze is minimal. I make ten trellises using T-posts and landscape fence. The trellises are windproof. The peas get plenty of sunshine and they are easy to harvest between the rows. This trellis is made with 7 ½ foot T-posts and 3-foot-wide landscape fence cut to five-foot lengths. The...
by Judy | Apr 29, 2025 | CobraHead
Spring is always a fun time of the year after a dreary cold winter. Snowdrops start the season off followed by the crocuses. The blue scilla are everywhere in the lawn and the tulips are budding out. But my favorite part is looking for the edibles such as ramps, spring onions, chives, nettles, baby mustard (self-seeded from last fall), asparagus and whatever else I can find. This year Noel picked the first of our ramps. He started the patch in our woods about...
by Anneliese | Apr 27, 2025 | CobraHead
We’ve posted a lot about vegetable growing here, but in recent years, we’ve added more and more ornamental plants to our growing repertoire. Our latest interest is Dahlias! If you’d like to try them, too, we have a few handy tips, courtesy of our friends at Russells Mills Flower Co. Dahlia Growing Tips: When to plant: Plant after danger of frost and when the soil temp is around 60 degrees. That ranges from mid April to Late May, depending on how...
by Noel | Mar 31, 2025 | CobraHead
About 30 years ago I accidentally left some sweet potatoes in the basement well past their one year maximum shelf life. The potatoes were wrapped in newspaper in a relative dry environment. As I unwrapped the potatoes I found they were dehydrating and all the potatoes had put out sprouts, which, for lack of light, were pale pink or red, but were indeed, totally alive little sweet potato vines, feeding off the mother plant. I realized these sprouts would be easy to...
