CobraHead Facebook Photo Contest
We want a photo of you using the CobraHead Weeder and Cultivator or CobraHead Long Handle Weeder and Cultivator. You could win $200! Do you have a favorite use for the CobraHead? We would like to see you in the garden using our tools! Between now and June 12th, upload...
Interplanting Garlic with Greens
Here are two videos about garlic and inter-planting garlic with salad greens. I plant garlic here in southern Wisconsin in late October. I plant the cloves along the top of ridges of a raised bed that has been shaped into three ridges (or two troughs). After I plant...
Asparagus Spring Onion Cheddar Cheese Scones
My favorite scone recipe is from the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board – “Wisconsin Colby Cheese Scones”. I think sharply flavored cheeses stand out more in this recipe so I usually use an aged cheddar or an aged Swiss cheese. A little feta is good too, as is pictured...
Potting Off to a Hoop Tunnel
There are normally three steps to growing vegetables that require indoor seeding. First you plant the seeds in a growing medium into a flat or a small container. Second, you transplant the sprouted seedlings after they have established themselves into a second,...
Quick and Easy Spring Meal
Judy and I enjoyed a great light meal last night that was mostly from the garden - a salad with a side of roasted asparagus. The roasted asparagus recipe: Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Wash & dry asparagus spears after removing woody ends. In a large bowl pour in...
Loquat
Driving around Austin during the past couple of weeks I have seen hundreds of loquat trees, Eriobotrya japonica, loaded with ripe fruit. Here the trees are mostly planted as an ornamental, in part due to their tropical looking foliage. The fruit, however, is...
Getting Down in the Trenches for More Spuds
I tried something new (for me) this year in planting my potatoes. Geoff mentioned this method to me years ago and I never got around to trying it. I kind of forgot that it was he who told me, but he was quick to remind me when I showed him what I did. The logic is...
Cream of Sweet Potato Soup
I still have sweet potatoes from my fall harvest. I made this soup a couple of weeks ago for some guests. Easy and filling. 3-4 large Sweet Potatoes, peeled and cut into 1" chunks 1 medium onion, chopped 3 stalks celery, chopped 2-3 garlic cloves, chopped or crushed...
Seed Giveaway Winners
We are pleased to announce the two winners of the Botanical Interests’ Seed Collections! Janiece won the Basic Bounty Veggie Garden Collection. Her favorite vegetable to grow is the Sugar Snap pea. Chris McDiarmid won the Heirloom Tomato Seed Collection. That’s...
Seed Giveaway
Our friends at Botanical Interests have given us two of their seed collections to give away. The Basic Bounty Veggie Garden Seed Collection includes Bean-Bush Blue Lake 274, Corn-Bodacious, Leaf Lettuce-Salad Bowl Blend Organic, Sweet Pepper-Sweet California Wonder...
Sunny Roasted Sweet Potato Hummus
1 cup garbanzo beans, cooked 1 cup roasted mashed sweet potato 2 T. Sesame Seeds, raw, or toasted for different flavor 4 T. Sunflower Seeds, raw, or toasted for different flavor 2-3 cloves chopped garlic ½ - 1 tsp. salt to taste 2-4 T. or juice of 1 lemon 1 tsp....
It’s Wisconsin. It’s March. It’s Summer!
The average March high temperature where I live is 42 degrees. The average minimum is 24, with an average mean temperature of 32 degrees. Today, a high of 82 is predicted. We've had highs of upper 70's to over 80 for the past week. The lows have been just below...
My First Bloom!
After two years in my house, I finally decided it was time to add to the garden collection. So last fall after road crews finished tearing up my street, I took advantage of the bare soil the road crews left by the curb and planted over 400 crocus bulbs. Pictured above...
Organic Gardening NOT JUST in the Northeast
We knew little of what is referred to as "Lawn & Garden" in the worldwide marketplace before we started CobraHead. But we soon learned that if you can make garden writers familiar and happy with your products, there is a chance they might mention them when they...
Sweet potatoes are for lovers
Happy Valentines Day. If you're like me, the first food that comes to mind when you think of romance is the sweet potato. This dish is usually served as a Christmas time children's treat in Mexico. However, hand feeding this to your special someone will turn it...
Winter Fruit Tree Pruning
Ten days ago I pruned my peach and plumcot trees. Given our exceptionally mild winter, the first week of February was already on the late end of optimal pruning time. I still consider myself a novice pruner, but while at the State Master Gardener conference in...
Early Riser
Here's a snowdrop that's shown up over a month early. A lot of snowdrops and crocus have sprouted with our unseasonably warm weather. I'm going to drop some leaves over them to see if I can help them hang on until their normal blooming time later in March. Early...
Corn Potato Chowder
Here’s a quick soup recipe that was ‘loosely’ adapted from a cookbook by Jeff Smith, ‘The Frugal Gourmet Cooks American’. I say loosely because the original recipe was made with cream and crawfish and garnished with hard boiled eggs. Well, even though the Crawfish...
More on Heat Mats
Geoff posted last week about the heat mat set up he is using to start some pepper plants, here. I use a heat mat and grow-lights as well to start peppers, tomatoes, and other vegetable seedlings that need a jump start, and I've also found the set up useful to give...
Pumpkin Quinoa Whole Wheat Yeast Bread
I've been trying to figure out what to do with all that frozen pumpkin puree I have in the freezer. Well, I'm pondering no longer. I'm getting back into old-fashioned bread making, and adding pumpkin to whole wheat yeast bread has been a winner. We can only make or...