This year, my mint has grown wonderfully. It has been a hot summer with little rain (so we have watered often!!) and the mint grew so well that I ended up with far too much mint!! So, I decided to make mint extract! I love using mint extracts in desserts like mint nanaimo bars or…
Category: In Our Garden
How to Cook Patty Pan Squash
Last year we bought some patty pan squash — also known as sunburst squash — from the farmers market and absolutely loved it, so we decided to grow it ourselves. Patty pans grow much like zucchini. They’re sweet and neutral in flavor so you can season them however you like. When they’re a good size,…
July Garden Update with Our City Homestead
It’s the beginning of July and time to start our July Garden Update! Let me take you around the garden! Here the squash and cucumbers are up but many did not sprout. I seeded them again a couple weeks ago, so we will see if they grow. It is getting a bit late in the…
June Garden Update with Our City Homestead
I love watching the garden grow. In just 2 weeks, the garden has made great progress. Much of the seeds we planted have come up. It is a little difficult at this point to sometimes distinguish between a weed and a plant! We had pulled out a whole row of rosemary last year, thinking it…
May Garden Update with Our City Homestead
Oh the start of the gardening season. How I love this time of year. Planning what we are going to grow, picking out our seeds and plants, the fresh spring air. It is all wonderful. After a long winter, it is exciting to be able to get back into the garden. We have our plot…
Harvesting Corn Seed
We started growing corn this spring indoors and planted it in my mom’s garden where there was more room for it to grow. It did exceptionally well where it gets both sun and shade and plenty of water. This summer, the corn grew so well and the cobs had properly formed kernels that when cooked,…
2021 Garden Harvest
It is hard to believe the garden season is nearly over! We have been harvesting the garden since August. We have had lots of frost warnings, so we have been picking the garden goodies, cleaning the garden out and helping my folks clean out their garden too. I love harvesting the garden! It is one…
