We have been eating meat free a lot this week. In spite of the tornado. we have been able to harvest a few wonderful veggies: tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, squash. Garden Fresh Spaghetti Squash OK, so the spaghetti squash I actually bought, but most everything else was from the garden. Ingredients: Spaghetti squash, tomatoes, peppers, yellow […]
Santolina (Santolina chamaecyparissus) is also called Lavender Cotton and is originally from Europe. It is actually an herb that is evergreen in my garden but would be perennial further north. It’s hard to tell in this picture, but the foliage is actually a silver/grey and the flower and foliage both hold up will for cutting. […]
Thyme is incredible stuff! So is time, but thyme it one of my favorite seasonings for eggs and it is especially good fresh. I have grown creaping thyme, lemon thyme, wooly thyme and regular common thyme. My favorite by far is the lemon thyme. That is also the one that has done the best in […]
St. John’s Wort (Hypericum) is famous for it’s pharmaceutical properties and it’s uses as an herbal treatment for depression. There are over 300 species of Hypericum and I have no clue which one this is. I think it’s a gorgeous plant, though. It makes a mounding evergreen shrub about 3 feet tall and it will […]
This is the Hoja Santa (Piper auritum), from Central America. It is commonly known as the “Root Beer Plant” because it tastes and smells, well, like root beer. This one is pictured at the beginning of the growing season and will get much larger by the end of summer – to about 4 or 5 […]
Lamb’s Ear is such a cool herb! The scientific name is Stachys byzantina and it is native to Turkey, Armenia and Iran. The silvery evergreen leaves are soft and furry and almost feel like velvet. It’s grown more for the texture of the leaves, but it does also produce tiny purple flowers on tall stalks […]
I love it! I love the taste. I love the smell. I love the shape of the plant. And basil must like me too because my plants tend to get huge. But that’s OK. I will eat it all summer long! There are many different varieties of basil and I have tried several, but my […]
Rose Geranium Italian Cream Cake From Along the Garden Path by Bill and Sylvia Varney This was the most wonderful birthday cake! We made it with rose geranium and decorated it with rose petals from our garden. Unfortunately, we will now have to learn how to make a gluten-free version. 4 large rose geranium leaves […]
“Sunflower House” by Eve Bunting is such a wonderful book! It inspired us to build our own sunflower house. Unfortunately, I can’t find a picture of our sunflower house right now, but it was wonderful. During my daughter’s birthday, we sat inside our sunflower house and read the story. “Miss Lilly and the Hollyhock Garden” […]
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