by Judy | Oct 12, 2012 | CobraHead, Recipes
It’s never too late to learn something new. I’ve always wanted to try making my own sauerkraut or ‘fermented cabbage’ as they say now days. I did try making it in a quart jar a couple of years ago but when I saw a little mold on top I threw it out and never tried again. What I didn’t know at the time was that you could scrape the white mold off the top and the cabbage underneath the liquid was perfectly fine to eat. Last spring I sat in on a fermentation...
by Noel | Oct 10, 2012 | CobraHead, Gardening, Recipes
Continuing the discussion of sweet potatoes which I started with a post about my harvest a couple days ago, these are the last two sweet potatoes from the 2011 harvest. Sweet potatoes, when stored properly, last a long time. We’ve frequently kept them well over a year. Getting a crop to last that long without having to freeze or can makes sweet potatoes ideal for the home grower. Our storage method is simple. Lay out the sweet potatoes to dry for two...
by Noel | Oct 3, 2012 | CobraHead, Gardening
With frost forecast for later this week and knowing that I would be out of town, I decided to harvest my sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes cannot tolerate frost, so I did not want to take a chance on losing any of my crop. I had previously put a clear plastic cover over the bed as we had some nippy temperatures a week ago. The leaves under the plastic were already showing black from the previous frost and wilting badly, so I didn’t think I would lose anything...
by Noel | Oct 1, 2012 | CobraHead, Gardening, Recipes
I grew a half dozen Grey Stripe Mammoth sunflowers this year and decided to save some seed for snacks. These monster plants are not the tallest sunflowers one can grow, but they are tall enough, and the mature seed heads are well over a foot across. This seed came from Botanical Interests. Mammoth Grey Stripe is an old, open pollinated variety, so I can save a few of these to grow again, next year. The seeds were just starting to let go from the heads and...
by Judy | Sep 18, 2012 | CobraHead
Presenting the CobraHead Blog’s first ever guest post! Barbara Wickes of the ‘The Perennial Poppies Group’ garden club was our first international customer. Somehow she found us on the world wide web soon after we opened for business and we’re happy that she did! We’ve been shipping CobraHead Weeders and CobraHead Long Handles to Australia ever since. Barb has kindly consented to write a post from Down Under so we can see what their club has been doing and...
by Noel | Sep 10, 2012 | CobraHead, Gardening
I could have titled this, “Seed Saving for Dummies”, but I’ve never been a fan of the “For Dummies” or “Idiot’s Guide” list of titles for how-to manuals. How dare they imply that I may not be too smart? Anyone reading our blog posts is obviously very intelligent and I would never insinuate otherwise. There are plenty of seed-saving guides out there and this is not going to be a treatise on complicated seed-saving...
