by Noel | Aug 29, 2023 | CobraHead, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
This garden is growing too much food! We’re giving it away and eating and freezing all we can. We’ll make some changes next year – a little smaller and a lot more planning. It’s been a great garden year, however, in spite of some really uncooperative weather. To say that we eat good around here, is an understatement. We not only have good food and lots of it, but a variety that gives the cook a wide palate to play with. We have five different zucchini or summer...
by Judy | Jul 28, 2023 | #CobraHeadFolksEat Good, #JudyValdes, CobraHead, Recipes, Vegetable Growing
We are inundated with zucchini. Somehow last year we didn’t get any planted so Noel went overboard and planted five different kinds this year (including a climbing variety). We eat zukes and summer squash almost every day, and we’ve already sent some to the local food pantry. We won’t run out anytime soon. In my quest for delicious ways to use and preserve this magical vegetable, I came across the following Turkish-style zucchini fritter recipe....
by Noel | Jul 27, 2023 | CobraHead, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
July is when food output kicks into high gear. Harvesting is a daily job, with both Judy and me bringing in the bounty. I talked last month about trying out a 2 leader system for the tomatoes. It’s working great. Here are some Brandywines just waiting to turn red. We are already picking, but the deluge is yet to come. Our raspberry harvest is slowing down. We’ve picked over 20 quarts. We were picking a quart a day but that’s now down to about a pint....
by Judy | Jun 28, 2023 | CobraHead, Recipes, Vegetable Growing
I was looking through the Book Pages flyer at our local library and this book caught my eye: Ten Tomatoes That Changed the World, a History by William Alexander. We grow a lot of different tomatoes and I cook with them so this book sounded intriguing. I usually can’t make it to the end of a dry history book but this one kept me interested to the very last page. The author took us on a humorous tomato adventure from its origins in Mexico to Europe and back to...
by Noel | Jun 27, 2023 | CobraHead, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
June is almost over and it’s going out very uncomfortably as we are experiencing the Canadian smoke that has made a lot of the upper U.S. extremely dangerous and unpleasant Air quality is awful. It’s suggested we do not even go outside. We’re still in a drought, but the heat has gone down. Without daily watering, it would be no garden, this year. But we are gardening, and I’m actually happy with the results, so far. The pea harvest is going great. This is the...
by Noel | May 31, 2023 | CobraHead, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
May was very warm and very dry here in south central Wisconsin. I’m doing a lot of hand watering, trying to water just the plants so as not to encourage weed growth in open areas which overhead sprinkling would certainly do. A good thing about the open bed system I use is that it is easy to get a lot of water directly on the bed tops on with a hose and a wand. The bad thing is, of course, we could use a lot more rain, soon. Judy helped me put up a good fence for...
