by Noel | Apr 28, 2023 | CobraHead, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
April brings on the hard work period of the gardening season. I keep looking for ways to make it easier. This old guy doesn’t quickly recover from hard work like I used to. Here are a few pictures of some of the things going on in the garden. The hoop tunnel helps a lot. In the coming days, I’ll be putting starts directly from indoors to the soil in the tunnel. I have a brand new piece of 6-mil plastic for the cover and some easily removable doors. The tunnel is...
by Noel | Sep 14, 2022 | CobraHead, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
The picture represents a very small fraction of the total tomato yield. I have forty plants growing in two beds. The 20 different types I grow our mostly heirloom varieties and a lot are started from saved seed. One hybrid I have grown for a lot of years is Sungold. This small yellow/orange cherry tomato is always the first tomato to produce and it remains very productive right up until frost. We grow several varieties of cherry tomatoes, different paste...
by Judy | Aug 31, 2022 | CobraHead, Recipes, Vegetable Growing
This has been a great year for cucumbers. We’ve had rainfalls mostly at the appropriate times so production has been steady. I’ll be making refrigerator pickles with a lot of them but marinated slices are an easy and fast fix for dinner. Here goes: 2-4 cucumbers, peeled and thinly sliced 1/2 – 1 tsp. salt 1 T. white wine vinegar or to taste Using a mandolin (if you have one) slice the peeled cucumbers. Sprinkle with salt, give a quick stir and...
by Noel | Jul 31, 2022 | CobraHead, Gardening, Sweet Corn, Vegetable Growing
We had an excellent corn harvest. Unfortunately, raccoons ate about two dozen ears due to my negligence in leaving the garden gate open one night Nevertheless, we still had a lot of corn to eat and freeze. We froze 16 bags of corn, each 1.5 cups for a total of just over 12 pounds. We are stuffed with sweet corn, right now, and we’ll have delicious frozen corn to carry us through the winter.
by Noel | Apr 27, 2022 | CobraHead, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
The vernal equinox of March 20th was supposed to mark the beginning of spring. Somebody forgot to let Wisconsin know. It’s the end of April, and we are just beginning to see weather that in any way lends itself to gardening. Indecent weather and the fact that I missed March totally while on a vacation in Texas have put me behind in the garden, but I’m working to make up for time lost. I direct seeded onions and leeks into a hoop tunnel. They are sprouting and...
by Noel | Jan 31, 2022 | CobraHead, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
January Garden While this may not have been the coldest January we’ve seen, it was still pretty cold. Depending on your gardening attitude, the frigid Wisconsin winter can be good, or not. I rate it very good, and other lazy gardeners are in my camp. There is absolutely nothing to do. Everything outside is snow-covered and the ground is hard as a rock. Who would want to be out there, anyway? Nevertheless, even lazy gardeners have to do some planning, and January...
