by Geoff | Sep 15, 2011 | CobraHead, Gardening
We’re giving away a CobraHead Weeder, a garden fork, and a kneeling pad, our Garden Essentials Package worth $89.95 to help Austin’s Urban Roots program – see the details at the end of the post. We’re also matching donations in kind with up to $1,000 worth of our tools and other products. Austin has an amazing youth agriculture program called Urban Roots, a program of Youth Launch. Now in its fourth year, Urban Roots is a youth development program that...
by Geoff | Aug 31, 2011 | CobraHead, Gardening, Recipes
This year I decided to finally grow papalo, Porophyllum ruderale, also known as quillquiña. This herb has a flavor somewhat similar to cilantro, but unlike that plant, it has thrived throughout a summer of triple digit days. Not having cooked with it before, it gave me an excuse to make a quick roasted salsa. Ingredients 1-2 tomatoes Several hot peppers, I used a mix of fresh and dried peppers 1-2 cloves garlic 1 small onion a handful of papalo leaves, chopped...
by Noel | Aug 21, 2011 | CobraHead, Gardening
I finally built a tomato trellis that I’m happy with. I knew this was a good approach years ago, but it was one of those projects I never took the time to complete. I usually grow about 30 tomato plants in three rows in one of my 20 feet long by five feet wide beds. Two years ago, when my crop was decimated by late blight, I learned that blight can be slowed by good air circulation. Crowded and damp conditions greatly increase the chance of blight, and I...
by Anneliese | Jul 28, 2011 | Events, Gardening
Okay, so it’s summer, but summer doesn’t rhyme with fling. For the past four years, a group of garden bloggers has met up each spring or summer in a different part of the country. I’ve had the pleasure and privilege of attending all four Garden Bloggers Flings, and this year it was held in Seattle. The weather cooperated beautifully, and we were treated to sunny days every day except one. Over the course of four days, we visited a number of...
by Noel | Jul 15, 2011 | CobraHead, Gardening
We harvested garlic, yesterday. The bed was kind of weedy this year and I did not do my usual inter-planting with salad greens. However the garlic was just fine and at the peak time for harvesting. Last year we left it in the ground a little too long and the bulbs did not store as well as usual. This year we think we got it at exactly the right time. We used to grow soft neck garlic and it was quite easy to tell when it was ready to pick. The leaves yellowed...
by Anneliese | Jun 27, 2011 | CobraHead, Gardening
Noel and I made another video last week demonstrating how he uses a few different tools to help him clean out a totally overgrown, weedy garden bed. As you can see in the video, a few of the beds in the vegetable garden have grown out of control. The daunting task of clearing the beds was made quite a lot easier with the use of proper hand tools.
