by Noel | Oct 22, 2010 | CobraHead, Gardening
Here is some recent CobraHead news that I want to share. Anneliese was elected to the Mailorder Gardening Association Board of Directors. The Mailorder Gardening Association has been an excellent organization for CobraHead. Many of the major garden catalog firms are members and are our customers. We have been active with MGA since we joined and now Anneliese will get to be involved in a lot of MGA planning. We know it will help her in learning more about the...
by Geoff | Oct 18, 2010 | CobraHead, Gardening
Last week I gathered up some folks to help dig a new vegetable garden with friends Natalina and Kiko and their new daughter, Lola. Natalina grew up with gardening in San Antonio and Kiko spent part of his childhood on a coffee farm in Colombia, but this was their first Austin garden. Martin Perna came out to help with the endeavor. Natalina and I used to both volunteer with a youth organization here in Austin. Kiko and Martin are both working musicians and...
by Judy | Oct 18, 2010 | CobraHead, Gardening, Recipes
Our eggplant harvest was prolific this year. The extremely hot summer we had in Wisconsin probably had something to do with that! Eggplant is a great addition to pasta sauces and veggie sautés’ but our all-time favorite is eggplant parmesan. The original recipe came from the The Vegetarian Epicure by Anna Thomas. Over the course of many years our recipe has changed a little but the basic concept is the same. Sauté breaded eggplant slices and place in a baking...
by Noel | Oct 17, 2010 | CobraHead, Gardening
As a small business without a big advertising budget, CobraHead relies heavily on testimonials from happy users to get our story out to the world. Yesterday, we were exceptionally pleased to be made aware of Ciaran Burke’s Garden Blog. Ciaran, a professional gardener, garden writer, and photographer from County Mayo, in western Ireland, has some very nice things to say about our tool. Ciaran was introduced to CobraHead by our good friend Shawna Coranado, a...
by Geoff | Oct 13, 2010 | Gardening
A couple of weeks ago I got rid of the television and canceled cable. Yet I still found myself staring at the empty space that the TV used to occupy. What to do? Time for plant television. Now I can still sit on the couch, stare across the room, bits of drool forming at the corner of my mouth, and in the end feel virtuous about connecting with my bit of indoor nature.
by Noel | Oct 3, 2010 | CobraHead, Gardening
This big guy showed up while I was down on my hands and knees digging potatoes. It landed right in front of me and didn’t try to fly away when I picked it up. It is a really pretty moth. Almost the whole underwing is pink, and the moth shows off the bright color when its wings are open. All the pictures I shot with the wings open are blurred because of the moth’s wingbeats, but I posted one anyway, just to show what it looks like. I thought it was...
