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,...
Talking and Writing About Gardening
I started CobraHead to sell a tool I designed. I was quite sure my tool would be a help to a lot of gardeners. Since then, sales have proven what I knew when I started, the tool was a good one. Supposedly it was Emerson who said, “Build a better mousetrap and the...
CobraHead Weeder and Cultivator Chosen for the Top 8 Manual Weeders of 2017
The CobraHead Weeder and Cultivator was chosen by Ezvid Wiki as the #2 garden weeder for 2017. That means we are #1 small hand weeder since their #1 selection is a stand up weeder for weeding the lawn. Here’s the link: https://wiki.ezvid.com/best-manual-weeders
Oven Roasted Root Vegetables
We had a late harvest of turnips and radishes, more than we could eat raw, so we included these in a roaster full of vegetables. I've not cooked with radishes much so this was something different for us. I've listed the veggies that were in this mix but you can use...
Late Fall Planting of Wine Cap Mushrooms
Wine Cap Mushrooms (Stropharia rugosa annulata) are considered one of the easiest mushrooms to grow. Easy to grow, but highly prized, Wine Caps are noted for both their large size and excellent taste. Wine Caps are not often found in stores because of their fragile...
Black Beluga Lentil Vegetable Soup
Tis the fall season when the harvest of garden veggies are brought in and placed on every available flat surface in the kitchen. It's not always easy to find a place to have lunch or dinner but I did my best to use up enough food to make room for the soup bowls.........
Marigolds Attract Pollinators
About five years ago I bought a flat of marigolds at a garden show in Rockford, Illinois. The flat cost only five dollars. I presumed the marigolds were neither organic nor open pollinated, but they looked strong and there were a lot of plants for the money. I thought...