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Blackberry Lavender Italian Soda
Have you ever had an Italian soda? How about a blackberry lavender Italian soda? The mixture of fruit juice with soda and cream is divine. These Drinks are so delicious and beautiful. If you are lucky enough to grow your own Blackberries then you are in luck with this recipe! Sweet and slightly tart with a hint of herby lavender and rounded with a delicious fresh cream, they seem to have been designed for one another. This is a great idea for a summer drink. Also if you have been wondering how to use your blackberries or how to use herbs in a drink. I love using fresh garden produce…
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How to Convert Your Sprinklers to Drip Irrigation
Why is my lavender dying? Why we converted our overhead sprinklers to drip line irrigation.
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Lavender Lemon Curd
The Best Lavender Lemon Curd recipe! Sweet and tart with the added elegance of lavender. This lavender lemon curd will have you doing the good food dance. Mmmm, mmm I put it in everything from frosting for fruit pizza to blueberry crepe filling. I lived in England for a short time where I first had this amazing condiment. With British Scones and clotted cream this beautiful sauce will change your world (I say that a lot, it must be true). Anyway, every time I travel I have to try the best most authentic foods of the area. And then, I have to recreate them using the best home grown fruits…
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3 Ways to Make Garden Fresh Crepes
Crepes are so versatile you can make them sweet or savory. Today we made crepes 3 ways with garden fresh ingredients. These fresh crepes are filled with fresh garden ingredients: Strawberries, Lemons, Blueberries, Arugula, Tomatoes, & Red Onion. Surprising elegant flavors fill these garden fresh crepes. When I lived in Costa Rica I became obsessed with making crepes. Which is weird because it’s not a Central American dish, I made them all the time because I always had the ingredients. Every morning vendors would pass by our apartment calling out their wares, and fresh eggs were always on the menu. I experimented with different ingredient to fill the delicate, thin…
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Most Requested Whipped Body Butter Recipe
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The Best Make it Yourself Lavender Body Lotion Recipe
This creamy, smooth lotion recipe is light and soothing to your skin. This lotion is super moisturizing and a top requested product that you can now make in your own home. You can make it any scent you prefer but the addition of essential oils like Lavender make this an even more amazing lotion. Have you ever put on lotion and a minute later your hands felt sticky and maybe even drier than before? Sometimes lotion recipes include alcohol and additives which make the lotion gummy and drying. This recipe is so creamy and moisturizing Essential Oils Essential oils are derived from plants and they smell so good. You can…
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Most Requested Eggplant Parmesan Recipe
Eggplant is a great ingredient because it can be used in so many different ways because of it’s unique texture and mild flavor. I love making eggplant parmesan, it is easy and delicious. Garden Fresh makes this dish even better. What is Eggplant Eggplant is actually a berry botanically speaking but is classified by many as a vegetable. In warm tropical locations it is a perennial but here in the northern part of the United States it is an annual plant. It is part of the Solanaceae or nightshade family which makes it related to the tomato family. Serving dishes in these mini cocotte pans makes this a very fun…
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How to Grow Peaches N Dreams Double Hollyhocks
A full double blossom with creamy peach coloring on the outside and bright pink centers. These Peaches N Dreams double hollyhocks are a showstopper. People will stop in front of your house just to admire their beauty. I get so many questions and comments on our Peaches N Dreams hollyhocks that I decided to do a quick post about these beautiful flowers. We ordered these gorgeous, double blossom peachy pink hollyhock seeds from t.c. Hardware on Amazon. I planted these flowers in April 2017 (we are a zone 4-5). That summer they put out leaves but did not get tall or blossom because Hollyhocks are a Biennial. They were watered…
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How to make a 3 Ingredient Clay Mask
I didn’t realize how very easy it was to make a clay mask or I would have done it sooner in my life! I have been paying up to $40 dollars for a tub of clay mask. Then I started making my homemade bath and body products and realized that I can make a clay mask mixture for pennies! The huge plus is that I know exactly what is in the mask and you don’t need a preservative because you can keep it in dry form and just mix as needed. This is such a simple clay mask recipe. I mean 3 ingredients simple. Clay, in powder form; good oil…
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The Best How To Guide To Propagate Lavender From Cuttings
The most amazing this about plants is that you can take a cutting of them and propagate it to a new little plant with the same DNA as the plant you cut it from. To propagate lavender you only need 3 things, soil, rooting hormone, and a cutting of lavender. True to Variety The only way that you can know what type of lavender you are planting is by taking a cutting from a known variety of the plant. You can plant lavender from seed but then you get all different unknown varieties. This doesn’t work if you are selling your lavender and need to know its properties either for…
