by Judy | Nov 16, 2015 | CobraHead, Recipes
You may have read about our harvest of smaller squash in a previous post by Noel. The trellised squash yielded about 35 winter squash. We hadn’t even started counting the large varieties which included a 37 pound Boston Marrow, four Hubbards, several Red Kuris, large pumpkins, small pie pumpkins and some unknowns. So this is the year to get creative with squash. It’s very filling and a little goes a long way. It’s good just roasted and it works...
by Judy | Nov 2, 2015 | CobraHead, Recipes
Above is a picture of the purple sauerkraut I started a couple of days ago with cabbage, ginger, dill and hot pepper. We had about ten cabbages of four different varieties in this year’s garden. Since we don’t have a great way to store them fresh for any length of time I went on a fermentation binge. Three years ago when I made my first successful ferment I wrote about the method used here. While that’s a perfectly fine method I was introduced...
by Noel | Oct 31, 2015 | CobraHead, Gardening
Our target for planting garlic is the end of October. We hit it this year and I’m always happier when the cloves are set for their winter sprouting. Yesterday, I planted 76 saved seeds and added 38 new seeds, Lorz Italian, a softneck variety we purchased last week from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, our neighbors across the aisle at the Mother Earth News Fair in Topeka. I had a bed nearly ready to go. Potatoes had been harvested from it, earlier. It was...
by Noel | Oct 28, 2015 | CobraHead, Gardening
As the garden season winds down, we’re happy to report that we’ve had another great sweet potato harvest. I like to remind people that it’s easy to grow sweet potatoes even up north, here in Wisconsin. Here are the potato vines, about two weeks ago. We already had a light frost and the leaves were pretty moth eaten from Japanese beetles. I decided not to wait longer to get them out of the ground. I stacked all the vines up in the center of the...
by Noel | Sep 28, 2015 | CobraHead, Gardening
We harvested about 40 small winter squash yesterday. They were trellised using T-posts and concrete reinforcing grid. The trellis is discussed here. The advantage of trellising is space saving. These squash only took up about 60 square feet of garden space, grown in one 10 foot raised bed. The big Australian Butter Squash in the back of the picture did fine, but it was really too big for the trellis. It should have been trailing along the ground with the...
by Noel | Aug 27, 2015 | CobraHead, Gardening
Here are three beautiful eggplants. We’ve already enjoyed some of my favorite eggplant Parmesan and our eggplant harvest is going to be very good. Our eggplants are looking pretty good and giving us some beautiful fruit, but six weeks ago, I really thought the crop was lost. The plants were infested with flea beetles and the leaves riddled with holes. I was pretty sure they would die, but I put out some sticky traps to try to slow down the beetle activity and...
