by Anneliese | Jun 29, 2017 | CobraHead, Farming, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
Hi, everyone. Anneliese here. I’m back! Did you miss me? After four years away from CobraHead, I’ve returned to the family business, and I couldn’t be happier about it. One of my resumed responsibilities is representing CobraHead at events like the Garden Bloggers Fling. Geoff and I attended the very first Fling in Austin, TX in 2008, and I continued attending every year until 2012. The garden bloggers who attend the Fling are invariably a...
by Judy | Feb 27, 2017 | CobraHead, Recipes
Stir fries are a good way to use up small amounts of various veggies. If you add some tofu or other protein it’s a very satisfying meal. Here’s what I came up with this time. 8 oz tofu, cubed 2 dried shiitake mushrooms 1 cup water 1 T. Tamari Simmer the above ingredients and drain, reserving the liquid. Chop the mushrooms (discarding the harder stems, and set the tofu mushroom mix aside. 2 T. Olive Oil 1 T. fresh ginger, minced 1 T. garlic, minced 1...
by Judy | Feb 26, 2017 | CobraHead, Recipes
“It is a homely thing in one or another sense of the word, depending on your point of views.” Glyn Lloyd-Hughes, Description of Shepherd’s Pie: The Foods of England I should perhaps title this recipe Shepherdess Pie which apparently is a variation made without meat but I hadn’t heard the term before I started looking at recipes. Shepherd’s Pie was traditionally made with minced lamb and Cottage Pie was made with minced beef....
by Noel | Feb 7, 2017 | CobraHead, Gardening
This old flat dates back to about 1990. I started making my own flats from some cheap fence wood I had acquired. I’m not sure where I got the design, probably a garden magazine or garden book, but it has proven to be long-lasting and very useful. The flats are built using 3″ x 12″ x 5/8″ wood for the ends and 3″ x 18″ x 5/8″ wood for the sides. Thus they are 3 inches deep. The construction is very rough, especially the...
by Noel | Jan 28, 2017 | CobraHead, Gardening
It’s the end of January. We still have a lot of potatoes stored in the barn. Barn temperatures are often well below freezing but the potatoes are in good shape. Last fall, before I put the potatoes in storage, I modified my straw bale walls and replaced the bales on top with insulating foam panels. It was a good move. It’s way easier sliding off panels than wrestling straw bales when you need some potatoes. The barn stays cleaner and the potatoes seem to be...
by Judy | Jan 26, 2017 | CobraHead, Recipes
As you may have read before, Noel’s sweet potato harvest produced almost 125 pounds of edible roots. He planted the same number of plants (18) that he has for the last several years but we had such significant rainfall throughout 2016 that the potatoes grew bigger, therefore increased our total poundage. With that being said . . . we have a lot of sweet potato eating to do. Since sweet potatoes are, well . . . sweet, I like to counter balance them with...
