Our garden is coming off big time. Not many photos of it as it is beginning to look ragged. Our fruit crop has been a bust this year with much rain causing the fruit to drop.
I found out something about my herbs. I have some mint plant I thought was peppermint. It seems I was wrong and it is spearmint. I had infused some vodka since last year and it stunk...smelled and tasted like weeds. So did some google searches and found that peppermint is what you need to use for infusing to get mint extract.
The mint bloom is what led me to find out what kind of mint I have. So like the old old asparagus bed, we are killing it out and replanting both this next spring. And this time I will get peppermint.
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Our daylilies have been outstanding again this year. Sonny finally took my word that they bloom later than most flowers and I stopped him in time before he cleaned up the ditch bank.
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I spent a little money on Amazon. I bought some lids that fit on a large mouth canning jar to sprout seeds. I love sprouted seeds. I bought some mixed green seeds to sprout. I've only eaten alfalfa and mung bean seed so this is a little different. The sprouts definitely have a bite to them.
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I also bought some fermentation lids to make kraut and other fermented veggies. This is the kit I bought.
I also bought caraway seed to flavor my kraut.
Here is mine.
The yellow top is the sprouting lid. All you add to the kraut is cabbage, caraway seed and some water that has canning salt added to it.
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We finally harvested all our corn off just 1 row. We got 20 bags of corn cut off the cobs and 9 of corn on the cob.
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Sonny has been brining hams and making summer sausage. He had kept our big smoke house going this past week. Both taste so good and so much healthier for you.
Sonny uses about 40% deer and 60% lean beef. He adds the summer sausage mix, chopped jalapenos, and hard cheese. It is so yummy.
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Hopefully this next week I'll show steps to making a homemade pizza.
In the meantime here is the last to add. Just like God protects us under His wings.
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