Sunday, June 27, 2010

Mint Jelly

June 27, 2010.

Jars of homemade mint jelly
with a bird's nest blown by wind gust.
It's a mixed between spearmint and peppermint.


The mint plants with sunflowers
on the background.

© Burke's Garden, 2010.

Lily and Four O'Clock

June 27, 2010.
One muggy morning in June.

Asian Lily and Four O'Clock in the tractor tire planter.


Four O'Clock flowing down the tire planter.

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Monday, June 21, 2010

Apple

June 21, 2010.

After being abandoned for years and pruned and fertilized these past 2-3 years, the two apple trees in the front yards finally bear fruits and they are loaded. They are cooking type of apple, too sour to be eaten raw. Squirrels love them so we have to race against them. They made good apple pie and apple tarts.

The cooking apples.


A squirrel bite on an apple.


One of the apple trees dotted with apples
with a rose bush on the foreground
earlier in the month.

© Burke's Garden, 2010.

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Coriander Seeds

June 8, 2010.

We're behind on getting rid of the coriander plants' flower buds, so then they flower and made seeds and went dry. I collected the dried seeds, roast them on a pan (without oil) and then ground them in a pestle and mortar to make roast coriander powder for cooking. It was perfect!

Dry coriander seeds.

© Burke's Garden, 2010.

Coneflowers

June, 2010



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