Mint is everywhere around here . I've made a little batch of Mint sauce.
Red ⭕️

....they are out of the nest and I think will be leaving today....

....had a lovely Solstice weekend here at the homestead....

🥃🔥🥃

....just pulled the garlic....

About 50 good bulbs, very happy with this crop....

....a look around the Kitchen Garden....butterfly on the thyme, sage, onions for seed, leeks for seed, cropped garlic, peppermint, lavender, lettuce for seed, spearmint, rocket, corriander, fennel, sunflowers, chives, spinach for seed, oregano, tree spinach, chard, marjoram, horse radish, more chard, echinacia, lettuce, radish pods, some purple flowers i don't know the name of....music by Wolcensmen.....

....potatoes also doing well....

....its easy to mistake a courgette for a cucumber seedling....

and now its taking over....

....carrots....

This years on the left, last years (for seed) on the right....

....gherkins....

A nice basket of blackcurrants and small gooseberries . Jam making time 💜

Made 7 jars of delicious jam . Still plenty for the birds on the bushes 💜

....beetroot has been weeded....and looking good....

....and another 50 onions seedlings planted....

....the garlic is in....