by Anneliese | Feb 13, 2008 | CobraHead, Events
Well folks, garden show season is officially upon us. Noel, Judy and I spent last weekend at the Alliant Energy Center exhibiting for the Wisconsin Public Television Garden Expo. As always, we had a great time. Unless you’ve been living in a cave (or maybe just a different state), you should know that this year, Wisconsin has had one of the coldest, snowiest winters on record. Last weekend was particularly brutal. Temperatures were below zero (that’s...
by Anneliese | Dec 11, 2007 | CobraHead
Well, we promised we would get those packages out today, and by golly we did! The snow may have kept our vehicles from leaving the driveway, but we only saw that as an opportunity for a little exercise. The walk is about two miles roundtrip, so it was certainly enough to get the blood flowing. It’s just too bad I don’t have a harness for the dog — I would have had her help me pull!
by Noel | Nov 29, 2007 | CobraHead, Gardening
Our blog was launched to help us sell our CobraHead garden tool products. The Internet may prove to be the ideal tool for small businesses to let the world know they are out there without having to spend millions of dollars in advertising like the big corporations do. We are a really tiny entity, but with a website, a blog, an e-newsletter, and e-mail, we hope to reach lots of people. We recently sent out our first e-newsletter, which only went to our list of...
by Judy | Nov 15, 2007 | CobraHead, Recipes
I thought I’d share a couple of recipes the Valdes Family uses to make our Thanksgiving as traditional as possible without the time-honored big bird as the centerpiece. In some ways it’s probably one of the easiest meals to make without meat because your favorite dishes usually associated with the meal don’t have to change – mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberries, salad, green vegetable, corn, pumpkin pie, whatever you like. Usually our...
by Anneliese | Nov 14, 2007 | CobraHead, Environmental Issues, Events
This past weekend Judy, Geoff and I were in California to promote our CobraHead garden tool at the San Francisco Green Festival. Judy and Geoff at the Booth If you’re not familiar with Green Fest, it’s a very fun and inspiring event that features eco-friendly and fairly traded products, organic and vegetarian food, renowned speakers and various other environmentally and socially responsible exhibitors. The Green Festival is sponsored by the non-profit...
by Noel | Nov 5, 2007 | CobraHead, Gardening
I grew corn and cucumbers in this bed. It is the worst bed in the south garden in terms soil workability. It is dense yellow clay. It becomes brick hard as it dries. While years of adding compost and rotating crops though the bed have made it softer than it once was, it’s still far from friable. The nasty soil doesn’t seem to have any negative effect on the vegetables I grow. This year the corn and cukes were superb and when I do break up the clay,...
