Leek and Mashed Potato Soup
Several years ago I posted a recipe for Leek and Potato soup using our purple potatoes here. Hey, a potato is a potato no matter what color they are.... There are lots of various recipes for this type of soup, not the least of which is in the cook book "Mastering...
A Nasty February Draws To a Close
Last week it rained heavily on top of solidly frozen ground. The result was a lot of localized flooding and ice ponds everywhere. The water had nowhere to escape. Our closest large drainage is Koshkonong Creek which runs more like a ditch under Highway 18 about three...
The Wellness Garden by Shawna Coronado
Gardening is excellent physical and spiritual activity. Most who garden, love it and need it, but what would you do if pain or restricted movement from a debilitating disease were forcing you to give up gardening and your garden? Shawna Coronado found herself in that...
Horseradish Balsamic Glazed Beets
The idea for this recipe was inspired from an hors d'oeuvres sandwich we enjoyed at the GWA (Garden Writers Association) Conference in Buffalo this past summer. It was called a Beet Slider which consisted of a small dinner-size buttered roll spread with horseradish...
Prepping Open Raised Beds for Winter
We’re taking advantage of good weather to get a lot of garden beds prepared for winter. We’re loosening them up with a broadfork, pulling out most of the weeds, shaping them up neatly, and covering them with a thick layer of leaves. I don’t use cover crops to protect...
Black Friday Garlic
I try to plant garlic by the end of October. This year it didn’t happen. Having great faith in climate change, I knew I would get another opportunity or several before the ground froze too hard to work easily. Today the high temperature peaked at around 66 F and it...
Horseradish
I prepared horseradish sauce yesterday. I ran the horseradish twice through a food processor, first slicing, then shredding the pieces of root. As I was shredding, I added enough vinegar to keep the horseradish from drying out or heating up. The vinegar helps retain...
Roasted Shishito Peppers
This year was not particularly good for our pepper harvest. It may have been the location and the fact that the ever so tall Jerusalem artichokes blocked the east sun from the patch. That won't happen next year. Live and learn. Luckily we had a late frost so when...
CobraHead Tools in Uganda
I think Rose Berry bought her first CobraHead from us at the Madison Garden Expo many years ago. Rose likes our products and she has purchased many tools for gardeners over the years. She let me know that she really could use a lot of CobraHead tools for a project...
Simple Sliced Cucumbers
This has been the year of the cucumber for us. I still have a dozen cucumbers sitting on the table (in mid-October, no less) but I think the vines have died back and that will be the last of them. We ate plain cucumber spears, chopped cucumbers with tomatoes and...
2017 Sweet Potato Harvest
We harvested 89 pounds of sweet potatoes yesterday. That's not a record, but it's well above our normal yield, and we're happy with the results. Our average sweet potato yield is about 80 pounds per bed. We grow a variety named Jewel (sometimes spelled Jewell). ...
Tomato, Zucchini, Onion Potato Bake
Well here we are again in zucchini tomato season. I first posted this recipe about five years ago here. I make it several times each year during the height of the season. It's a tasty stick to your ribs meal. This time I layered the following items twice in a...
Japanese Soba Noodle Salad with Pea Pods
Our snow peas, sugar snap peas and capucijner soup peas are doing abundantly well this year. And Bambi, who has been frolicking in our yard hasn't found them yet. Of course, Zuri, our watch dog has been running interference so I'm sure that has helped as well....
T-Posts in Trellises
Intensive gardening in open raised beds practically demands working with a lot of trellises. The system of concentrated planting doesn’t lend itself to sprawl, and the solution is to grow vertically. I stake or trellis many plants to get maximum production in...
Garden Bloggers Fling – Willowsford Farm
Hi, everyone. Anneliese here. I'm back! Did you miss me? After four years away from CobraHead, I've returned to the family business, and I couldn't be happier about it. One of my resumed responsibilities is representing CobraHead at events like the Garden Bloggers...
Stir Fried Vegetables Over Somali Bantu Rice
Stir fries are a good way to use up small amounts of various veggies. If you add some tofu or other protein it's a very satisfying meal. Here's what I came up with this time. 8 oz tofu, cubed 2 dried shiitake mushrooms 1 cup water 1 T. Tamari Simmer the above...
Vegetarian Shepherd’s Pie
"It is a homely thing in one or another sense of the word, depending on your point of views." Glyn Lloyd-Hughes, Description of Shepherd's Pie: The Foods of England I should perhaps title this recipe Shepherdess Pie which apparently is a variation made without meat...
Wood Garden Flats
This old flat dates back to about 1990. I started making my own flats from some cheap fence wood I had acquired. I’m not sure where I got the design, probably a garden magazine or garden book, but it has proven to be long-lasting and very useful. The flats are...
Potatoes in Cold Storage
It’s the end of January. We still have a lot of potatoes stored in the barn. Barn temperatures are often well below freezing but the potatoes are in good shape. Last fall, before I put the potatoes in storage, I modified my straw bale walls and replaced the bales on...
Baked Sweet Potatoes with Mushroom Gravy
As you may have read before, Noel's sweet potato harvest produced almost 125 pounds of edible roots. He planted the same number of plants (18) that he has for the last several years but we had such significant rainfall throughout 2016 that the potatoes grew bigger,...