by Anneliese | Jan 15, 2009 | Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, Gardening
I have never participated in Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for a few reasons. First of all, I’m an infrequent blogger, and remembering to post on the same day each month never felt like an important priority. Also, I travel a lot, especially in the spring during garden show season, so I’m not always around to see what’s coming up outside. And probably most importantly, I don’t really care that much about flowers. I know, sacrilege! Okay,...
by Noel | Jan 11, 2009 | Gardening
It was about 20º F when I took this picture of the garden yesterday afternoon. The snow has covered up the precise delineation of the beds. I’m looking north. The raspberries are to the left. I won’t cut those back until late February. In the back center are the dried asparagus fronds in the north beds. Those aren’t cut back until a March thaw takes away the snow. We’ve had about three feet of snow so far, but thaws have taken the snow...
by Judy | Nov 16, 2008 | Gardening
Well we harvested our leeks. I couldn’t face the thought of mulching them heavily, covering them up and hoping they wouldn’t be so frozen into the ground that I couldn’t dig them out when I felt the need for a batch of leek and potato soup! The leek section was about 3 feet by 4 feet on the end of the same raised bed on which we grew our onions. I’d been harvesting a few here and there for the last couple of months taking only the biggest...
by Geoff | Oct 27, 2008 | Gardening
Last month the entire CobraHead family had the opportunity to visit several of the stunning gardens and nurseries of the Portland, Oregon region while attending the annual Garden Writers of America symposium. When I say family I don’t mean it in the figurative sense. In case you don’t know, we are a Mother-Father-Son-Daughter operation My interests tend towards edible and medicinal plants, but the collection of Japanese maples and conifers at Iseli...
by Noel | Oct 19, 2008 | CobraHead, Gardening
Except for the value of the labor you put into making it, compost can cost nothing. I detailed my composting method last December here. Today I cleaned up the compost I had made last fall. I have a nice large pile shown in the picture. I’ll definitely have enough to put more than a couple buckets into each of my beds. I had neglected the pile after I made it last fall, but getting it into shape was quite easy. I had to pull out quack grass, burdock and...
by Noel | Oct 5, 2008 | Gardening
A view of the north beds shows an area untouched by human hands from last year until yesterday. The asparagus on the far left was tended and harvested in the spring, but the three beds to the right were probably not walked through until Anneliese started cleaning out a bed full of tansy and goldenrod. Next to the asparagus, the bed with the t-posts was last year a bed of tomatoes, carrots and greens, Anneliese’s first attempt at growing her own vegetables....
