by Noel | May 29, 2018 | CobraHead, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
The garden is off to a really slow start this year. It’s mostly April’s fault. That month gave us very cold weather right up until the end, so nothing got planted. For the first couple weeks in May we were practically under water and it’s only been the last two weeks that we’ve been able to get a lot accomplished. Here’s some flowering horseradish. I’ve promised to take a little better care of my horseradish this year and it’s looking good....
by Judy | Apr 25, 2018 | CobraHead, Recipes, Vegetable Growing
We harvested a plethora of onions last year. We still have yellow copra onions which store quite well. Then there are the red onions which don’t store quite as well. Those are definitely sprouting, so I cut out the sprouts and use what I can. I’ve been using them like crazy but then I use onions in just about everything I cook. I have frozen chopped onions but I wanted to use the fresh onions as much as I could. So I turned to the internet –...
by Noel | Apr 20, 2018 | CobraHead, Environmental Issues, Garden Tools, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
I first met Mark Highland quite a few years ago, maybe at the Philadelphia Flower Show or at a Garden Writers conference. He already knew Geoff and Anneliese. Mark had just launched his company, Organic Mechanics, to produce high-quality potting soil. Since then, Mark has made a success of Organic Mechanics, and his passion for growing organically has evolved into his becoming a spokesperson for the organic method. Mark is a degreed horticulturalist whose...
by Noel | Apr 16, 2018 | CobraHead, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
I’ve been starting my sweet potatoes from sprouted old roots rather than starting from new potatoes for quite a few years, now. It’s a close to fool-proof method. Here are 25 sprouts in a soil box. I removed the sprouts from the mother plants and cut them into handleable sections before shoving them into the soil. Note that many of the sprouts have already leafed out while still attached to the mother root. Some, however, are just pink sprouts that will quickly...
by Anneliese | Mar 29, 2018 | CobraHead, Recipes
Sometimes you just want pizza. Okay, most of the time I just want pizza. So when Judy (a.k.a. “Mom”) told me on Monday that she was thinking of making pizza for lunch on Tuesday, I was excited to hear it. She planned on using ingredients left over from last year’s harvest, plus a few things we had on hand in the pantry. Then Mom told me she was going to use some frozen naan for the crusts. Now, there’s nothing wrong with naan pizza crusts...
by Noel | Mar 28, 2018 | CobraHead, Gardening
I used to start my sweet potatoes like this, in a cup or jar of water. Now I don’t start them at all. I just let some old potatoes sprout on their own and plant the sprouts. I haven’t started sweet potatoes either in water or soil for quite a few years. After I realized that old sweet potatoes almost always put out viable sprouts on their own after about a year and a half, a discovery of leaving some in storage far too long, I just keep a few potatoes around to...
