Gardening Archive

  • Mint Ice Cream Recipe Review

    Mint Ice Cream Recipe Review

    We planted mint in our garden last year and quickly learned how delicious, and invasive, it can be. Fresh mint smells great and, let’s face it, who doesn’t like picking fresh mint from their garden for mojitos in the summer? We haven’t made ice cream in quite some time. In fact, it has been almost two [...]

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  • Sweet corn with pea shoots

    Sweet corn with pea shoots

    For the last week I’ve been delicately tending to my pea shoots as they sprouted from seeds on the kitchen windowsill. I just recently tried “sprouting” for the first time, and wanted to find an interesting way to try the first of many sprouts to come. Right now we have snow peas, broccoli, mustard and mung [...]

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  • Starting a vegetable garden

    Starting a vegetable garden

    So we’ve been slacking off in publishing new blog posts recently, but I think we have a pretty good excuse: we’re starting a vegetable garden. Now that the ground is thawed and warm days are ahead, we started working in the back yard (since this will be our first full summer in the house). I moved an [...]

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