by Noel | Oct 23, 2025 | CobraHead, Vegetable Growing
We‘ve had a great garden this year. It’s not quite over. Lettuce, carrots, leeks, Brussels sprouts, and kale are still out there, but all the other crops have been harvested. Now we have to clean up the mess left behind and start prepping the beds for next spring. I’ve got piles of weeds and spent plants all over the garden. I let a lot of weeds compost in the aisles, but most of the weeds and plants will go to the compost pile. I purposely try to let galinsoga be...
by Noel | Sep 30, 2025 | CobraHead, Gardening
Most of my garden time this month was spent harvesting. September is when most of the heavy lifting of the harvest occurs. I’m always amazed at how much food can be grown by one person on a small piece of land. This year’s harvest has been exceptional. Here are sweet potatoes and onions. We still have lots of tomatoes, peppers, green beans, lettuce, squash, and more out there to be picked. I had good luck getting late summer lettuce. I started seedlings indoors...
by Judy | Sep 30, 2025 | CobraHead
Two and a half years ago, I bought a big, beautiful rosemary plant in a gallon-size pot at the Madison Garden Expo. I faithfully watered it once a week by soaking it in the laundry tub and letting it drain. This worked for almost two years, then the plant started dying back, as in practically dead. I probably got a bit careless about my watering routine, and I assumed it was done for. It still had some life in it, so we decided to plant it outside in the garden –...
by Judy | Aug 27, 2025 | CobraHead
Botanas translated from Spanish means snack. It’s more than a snack for us – it’s a main course. This botanas recipe is similar to nachos. I first made it in the early 1970’s. It came from the local newspaper in Wyandotte, MI. Ingredients Base 1 12 oz or 16 oz bag tortilla chips 1 lb. dry beans (pinto or black or your favorite) cooked, seasoned and mashed into refried beans or your favorite canned refried beans, thinned with a little water to make them pourable 1...
by Noel | Aug 26, 2025 | CobraHead, Gardening
How many different tomato trellises and other growing systems are there? The answer is lots and lots. As we like indeterminate heirlooms, trellising is imperative. I tried something different this year. I did almost no pruning. Mostly, I pruned leaves that could make ground contact and straggler stems that got outside the tied-down stems. I tied most of the stems to the bamboo poles and T-posts I use for the trellis. There were some negatives to this approach, but...
by Anneliese | Jul 30, 2025 | CobraHead
We’re always delighted to receive emails from happy CobraHead users, but sometimes these notes really stand out with their uniqueness. A couple of weeks back, we received this message in our inbox: Hello there, My name is Mike Stoller, I am the Excavations & Collections Manager for the Charleston Center for Paleontology. We are a paleontological research institute based here in Charleston, SC. I just wanted to reach out and let y’all know that you...
