by Noel | Apr 19, 2016 | Gardening
Have you ever had garden envy? Garden envy happens when you see how beautiful someone else’s garden looks in comparison to your own. Or maybe you experience garden envy when you see that someone else’s garden is producing many more beautiful vegetables than your own. Maybe it’s just that there are no weeds in their plots while you can barely pull yours out fast enough. Garden envy can turn you into a green-thumbed monster, but thankfully there is a cure. Once you...
by Noel | Apr 5, 2016 | Gardening
Back & Joint Safety Chiropractors suggest the importance of using an ergonomic garden tool, specifically a long handled tool that will allow you to remain upright for garden work. When you can stand up to garden or weed and avoid simultaneous bending and twisting, you can also potentially avoid back pain, neck pain, headaches, or joint discomfort. By finding a tool like the hand held garden tools at CobraHead, you use more of a punching motion versus a...
by Noel | Mar 22, 2016 | CobraHead, Gardening
It looks as though about all of the 100 plus cloves I planted last October have sprouted and are showing their flags through the protective straw. Garlic flags are a sure sign of spring. I‘m impressed by the strength of the leaves that push up through the wet and still icy straw blanket.
by Noel | Mar 21, 2016 | CobraHead, Gardening
I finally got my onion seeds into flats, yesterday. I had purposely held off planting because Judy and I were on the road for nearly two weeks. I didn’t want to enlist anyone to look after my newly sprouted seedlings. I normally target late January or early February to plant onion seeds, but I’m pretty sure my late March start will work out fine. The flats from bottom to top contain: Copra yellow onion – 500 seeds; Red Wing red onion – 500 seeds; Candy –...
by Judy | Dec 16, 2015 | CobraHead, Gardening, Recipes
We still have Brussels sprouts growing in the garden. They can tolerate light freezes and even colder temperatures if covered with straw or leaves – which we have done. Most years I pick the sprouts before it gets super cold, then blanch and freeze them. This year the freezer was already at capacity so that was not an option. Lately I’ve been roasting the sprouts. There are lots of variations on the theme but basically the vegetables are tossed with...
by Noel | Dec 15, 2015 | CobraHead, Gardening
The 2015 CobraHead Home Garden was a great success. The garden is never the same from year to year. Weather, seed and plant inputs, labor, luck, and a lot of other variables make each garden season a new experience. That’s an advantage for home gardeners. They don’t need perfection to be successful, and last year’s errors are only lessons for the future. I like to tell beginning gardeners not to worry. Plant enough different stuff and some of it will turn...
