by Noel | Jan 15, 2018 | CobraHead, Farming, Garden Tools, Gardening, Recipes, Vegetable Growing
Gardening is excellent physical and spiritual activity. Most who garden, love it and need it, but what would you do if pain or restricted movement from a debilitating disease were forcing you to give up gardening and your garden? Shawna Coronado found herself in that situation when she was diagnosed with degenerative osteoarthritis. Shawna was already an established garden writer and well-known gardening spokesperson when she came close to giving up gardening with...
by Judy | Dec 2, 2017 | CobraHead, Recipes
The idea for this recipe was inspired from an hors d’oeuvres sandwich we enjoyed at the GWA (Garden Writers Association) Conference in Buffalo this past summer. It was called a Beet Slider which consisted of a small dinner-size buttered roll spread with horseradish and a thick slice of cooked beet. It slid down very nicely! I had some cooked beets and no dinner rolls so I tried the next best thing. I tossed some cubed beets with horseradish, added a...
by Noel | Dec 1, 2017 | CobraHead, Garden Tools, Gardening
We’re taking advantage of good weather to get a lot of garden beds prepared for winter. We’re loosening them up with a broadfork, pulling out most of the weeds, shaping them up neatly, and covering them with a thick layer of leaves. I don’t use cover crops to protect the beds through the winter. Cover crops are a good approach, as garden soil should not be left uncovered and bare, but I have an abundance of leaves, and covering the garden with them is a lot...
by Noel | Nov 24, 2017 | CobraHead, Garden Tools, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
I try to plant garlic by the end of October. This year it didn’t happen. Having great faith in climate change, I knew I would get another opportunity or several before the ground froze too hard to work easily. Today the high temperature peaked at around 66 F and it was a quite pleasant day for planting, a very good way to spend Black Friday. I plant garlic in ridges, three per bed. I work up the soil in a bed until it is soft. The ideal tool for this is an...
by Noel | Nov 13, 2017 | CobraHead, Gardening, Recipes, Vegetable Growing
I prepared horseradish sauce yesterday. I ran the horseradish twice through a food processor, first slicing, then shredding the pieces of root. As I was shredding, I added enough vinegar to keep the horseradish from drying out or heating up. The vinegar helps retain the hot flavor and allows it to keep for a while in the refrigerator. It will last a couple months. It’s a tasty condiment and it has an impressive list of purported health benefits. I grow...
by Judy | Nov 9, 2017 | CobraHead, Recipes
This year was not particularly good for our pepper harvest. It may have been the location and the fact that the ever so tall Jerusalem artichokes blocked the east sun from the patch. That won’t happen next year. Live and learn. Luckily we had a late frost so when Noel pulled the last of the pepper plants from the garden on October 30th, we had a bonus – a couple dozen shishito peppers. We had never grown them before so I thought they were immature...
