Sunday, July 02, 2006

Hanging Baskets

Heliotrope
This plant is not edible, but it smells like it is. It's vanilla scented. I bought this plant last summer at the farmers market. It died back over the winter, but I pruned it and repotted in fresh soil this spring, and it has made a nice comeback.

Since were talking about vanilla.......

did you know you could make your own vanilla extract? Just add 5 fresh whole vanilla beans (slit down the center) to a bottle of vodka and let it infuse for at least 6 weeks. Use in baking just like vanilla extract.

1 Comments:

At 4:57 PM, Blogger David (Snappy) said...

I want to try it now.If only you could smell the pictures on the internet.Another plant to my wishlist..ha ha that is growing as i read about other peoples gardens.

 

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