by Judy | Aug 27, 2020 | CobraHead, Recipes
When you have a garden you pretty much have to go with the flow. When the corn is ready you eat corn, after the raccoons have had more than their fair share. When the tomatoes are ready you eat tomato sandwiches every day, make salsa, spaghetti sauce, stewed tomatoes, tomato soup, dried tomatoes, etc. The same goes for yellow summer squash and zucchini. Most people know that using zucchini you can make cakes, breads, brownies, ratatouille,...
by Noel | Aug 22, 2020 | CobraHead, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
This small bed has 5 wire grate trellises. It’s planted with cucumbers, smaller squashes, small melons, and tomatillos. The wire mesh is a concrete reinforcing insert which is readily available and not expensive. Like the T-posts to which they are attached, they last indefinitely. Jute Connection Everything is tied together with jute twine which I much prefer over plastic twine or plastic wire ties. Jute twine is inexpensive and biodegradable so there is no...
by Noel | Jul 15, 2020 | CobraHead, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
Our vegetable garden is divided into south and north areas. The south area is geometric consisting of 18 open raised beds. The North garden is more fragmented and contains a large and no longer maintained asparagus bed, five smaller beds in production, plus several patches of Jerusalem Artichokes, weeds, and a compost area. Carrots and Beets, Tomatoes Here are a couple north beds. The closest bed gave us some greens, radishes, spinach and...
by Judy | Jul 15, 2020 | CobraHead, Recipes
Pea season is just about over for us here in Wisconsin. Pea pods and snow peas are great served raw for snacking or in a salad. They also make a tasty appetizer or side dish when blistered in a cast iron frying pan. Recipe: 1 T. Oil – I use olive oil 6-8 oz. fresh pea pods, washed, stemmed and dried 1 tsp. sesame seeds Salt & Pepper to taste – red pepper flakes might make a great addition too! Heat cast iron pan to medium...
by Noel | May 18, 2020 | CobraHead, Garden Tools, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
I plant my potatoes in trenches which I make with my old five-tined cultivating hoe. I loosen the soil with the cultivator and scoop it out of the trench with a flat spade. Potato Trenches It doesn’t take long to make trenches about eight inches deep and eight inches wide. Planted Potato Seed I run a row of seed 12 inches apart on one side of the trench and a row on the opposite side, offset 6 inches. This year I planted five varieties, 2.5 pounds of each...
by Noel | May 13, 2020 | CobraHead, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
I set up a hoop tunnel on April 30th and began moving plants into it the next day. Double Hoop on Tunnel Ends This year, I made the ends double, using two pieces of PVC tubing at each end instead of one. This provided a lot more rigidity to the whole structure and made for much easier venting and closing using welders clamps. Trenched Onion Starts The first plants into the tunnel were onion and leeks, which I transplanted from flats to trenches. Sweet...
