by Noel | Jun 27, 2016 | CobraHead
Have you ever seen something and thought, “Wow, that is absolutely gorgeous”? Well, that’s what butterfly gardens make people say every day; they’re beautiful, colorful, peacefully serene, and of course surrounded by butterflies. You may want one of your own, but it can be complicated to craft one by yourself. Luckily the CobraHead long handle and handheld gardening tools minimize the pain of weeding and cultivating for your garden! Eliminate the pain of weeding....
by Noel | Jun 24, 2016 | CobraHead, Environmental Issues, Gardening
National Pollinator Week is a USDA sponsored event with the main focus of improving the health of pollinators, primarily, honeybees. I appreciate their efforts, but if the USDA really wanted to improve pollinator health, they would get out of their agri-business practices that are most responsible for loss of pollinator friendly ecosystems. Anyway, celebrating pollinators is a good thing, so we’ll contribute by featuring some of our local pollinating...
by Noel | May 26, 2016 | CobraHead, Gardening
This small bed has 90 Candy hybrid onion starts that I planted today. I took advantage of a morning rain that dampened the soil. Planting in wet soil made the transplanting shock minimal. This is the first time I’ve planted Candy. They are supposed to be big and sweet. I planted on 6 inch spacing to give them plenty of growing room. After I got them into the ground I gave them a good soak. They are looking happy, so far. This large bed has 152 Copra...
by Noel | Mar 22, 2016 | CobraHead, Gardening
It looks as though about all of the 100 plus cloves I planted last October have sprouted and are showing their flags through the protective straw. Garlic flags are a sure sign of spring. I‘m impressed by the strength of the leaves that push up through the wet and still icy straw blanket.
by Noel | Mar 21, 2016 | CobraHead, Gardening
I finally got my onion seeds into flats, yesterday. I had purposely held off planting because Judy and I were on the road for nearly two weeks. I didn’t want to enlist anyone to look after my newly sprouted seedlings. I normally target late January or early February to plant onion seeds, but I’m pretty sure my late March start will work out fine. The flats from bottom to top contain: Copra yellow onion – 500 seeds; Red Wing red onion – 500 seeds; Candy –...
by Judy | Dec 16, 2015 | CobraHead, Gardening, Recipes
We still have Brussels sprouts growing in the garden. They can tolerate light freezes and even colder temperatures if covered with straw or leaves – which we have done. Most years I pick the sprouts before it gets super cold, then blanch and freeze them. This year the freezer was already at capacity so that was not an option. Lately I’ve been roasting the sprouts. There are lots of variations on the theme but basically the vegetables are tossed with...
