by Noel | Jun 30, 2017 | CobraHead, Environmental Issues, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
Intensive gardening in open raised beds practically demands working with a lot of trellises. The system of concentrated planting doesn’t lend itself to sprawl, and the solution is to grow vertically. I stake or trellis many plants to get maximum production in limited space and to keep the aisle spaces passable. I use T-posts as my main trellis component. They are cheap, strong, and last forever. And they lend themselves well to various designs. Most of my...
by Anneliese | Jun 29, 2017 | CobraHead, Farming, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
Hi, everyone. Anneliese here. I’m back! Did you miss me? After four years away from CobraHead, I’ve returned to the family business, and I couldn’t be happier about it. One of my resumed responsibilities is representing CobraHead at events like the Garden Bloggers Fling. Geoff and I attended the very first Fling in Austin, TX in 2008, and I continued attending every year until 2012. The garden bloggers who attend the Fling are invariably a...
by Noel | Feb 7, 2017 | CobraHead, Gardening
This old flat dates back to about 1990. I started making my own flats from some cheap fence wood I had acquired. I’m not sure where I got the design, probably a garden magazine or garden book, but it has proven to be long-lasting and very useful. The flats are built using 3″ x 12″ x 5/8″ wood for the ends and 3″ x 18″ x 5/8″ wood for the sides. Thus they are 3 inches deep. The construction is very rough, especially the...
by Noel | Jan 28, 2017 | CobraHead, Gardening
It’s the end of January. We still have a lot of potatoes stored in the barn. Barn temperatures are often well below freezing but the potatoes are in good shape. Last fall, before I put the potatoes in storage, I modified my straw bale walls and replaced the bales on top with insulating foam panels. It was a good move. It’s way easier sliding off panels than wrestling straw bales when you need some potatoes. The barn stays cleaner and the potatoes seem to be...
by Noel | Jan 24, 2017 | CobraHead, Garden Tools, Gardening
I started CobraHead to sell a tool I designed. I was quite sure my tool would be a help to a lot of gardeners. Since then, sales have proven what I knew when I started, the tool was a good one. Supposedly it was Emerson who said, “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.” I can assure you Ralph got it wrong. You can have a great product, but you have to sell it and sell it hard before anyone will even know it’s out there. ...
by Noel | Jan 16, 2017 | CobraHead, Garden Tools, Gardening
The CobraHead Weeder and Cultivator was chosen by Ezvid Wiki as the #2 garden weeder for 2017. That means we are #1 small hand weeder since their #1 selection is a stand up weeder for weeding the lawn. Here’s the link: https://wiki.ezvid.com/best-manual-weeders