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...
by Judy | Oct 26, 2020 | CobraHead, Recipes, Vegetable Growing
Galeux d’Eysines a.k.a. peanut pumpkin (pronounced Gal-oh d’zeen), is a French heirloom squash. Our seeds came from the Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company. They are also available from Johnny’s Selected Seeds and several other seed companies. Peanut Squash Galeux D’Eysines Noel cut the squash in half and the seeds were scraped out, washed, and roasted. We did save a few of the raw seeds for planting. Here’s how we...
by Judy | Sep 22, 2020 | CobraHead, Foraging, Recipes
We have about two acres of woods on our property and each year we seem to find new things. They were probably there all along but went unnoticed by us. Actually this year didn’t start out great for mushrooms. The morel harvest was hit and miss mostly due to the temperature and rainfall fluctuation not meshing at the right time for ideal growing conditions. We did have a few shiitake harvests on our old oak logs that Noel inoculated about 5...
by Noel | Sep 17, 2020 | CobraHead, Garden Tools, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
Potato Bed. Cold and soggy weather deterred gardening for nearly a week. It’s warmer now and drying up, a good time to finish digging up a potato bed that was already mostly harvested. Digging Potatoes. About a third of the bed was left to dig. Harvesting was not difficult, I used a broadfork to loosen all the edges, and then down on my hands and knees with my CobraHead Original to do all the digging. A Seam of Potatoes The potatoes had been planted in...
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...
