by Noel | Jan 17, 2010 | CobraHead, Gardening
It helps to have a plan. For business, for life in general, and certainly for growing plants to eat, planning gives you some control of the future. January is planning month for lots of northern gardeners. My planning includes going though several favorite seed catalogs and ordering seeds to replenish any in short supply in my seed inventory. I also start looking at what is going to be planted where. In January, I print out two new charts for my south and north...
by Noel | Dec 9, 2009 | CobraHead
Border Digging Spading Manure Fork Fork Fork Fork I’m surprised at how few people in the general population of gardeners truly know how useful a good fork can be. Doing all your digging using a spade or shovel is often not the best way to approach the task. For most garden and landscape tasks that require breaking or cutting earth, a fork is the better tool to choose. In actuality, for many...
by Geoff | Nov 16, 2009 | CobraHead, Gardening
After a record hot summer with virtually no rain, this has been a most perfect fall for gardening. Right now I am enjoying sugar snap peas, cilantro, Japanese mustard greens, pole beans and radishes. Broccoli, broccoli raab and tatsoi will be in full production soon. Cascade pole beans I use a raised bed gardening system similar to the one presented in the John Jeavons book How to Grow More Vegetables. I learned how to create raised beds through a two year...
by Noel | Oct 15, 2009 | CobraHead
We began developing a long-handled CobraHead soon after we introduced our original CobraHead Weeder and Cultivator. It quite honestly was a reaction to older gardeners who at trade shows kept telling us, “that looks great, but I need it on a long handle.” When we got serious about making a long tool, we realized that just sticking the CobraHead blade on a hoe handle was not going to produce a very effective tool. We tested many blade shape...
by Noel | Sep 29, 2009 | CobraHead, Events, Gardening
We attended the Garden Writers Association 61st Annual Symposium in Raleigh , North Carolina, last week. It was CobraHead’s 6th GWA, and our fifth as an exhibitor. Here’s Anneliese putting the final touches on our booth. The symposium includes a trade show, seminars, speakers, tours, dinners, and awards. It is held in a different city every year, and tours of both public and private local gardens are a big part of the trip Pictures from the Sarah P....
by Noel | Aug 17, 2009 | CobraHead, Events, Gardening
We continue to do a lot of trade shows, trying get our tools known by the gardening public. We’ve found that small shows can be more attractive than large ones, especially if the ratio of hands-on gardeners to the overall attendance is good. Big shows attended by the general populace are not for us. County fairs, street fairs, and music festivals are now on our “do not even think about it” list. We do well at energy shows that that have an...
