Meighan's Patio garden

I harvested two perfect ripe tomatoes from my ‘Stupice’ tomato plant yesterday. These are the first tomatoes that are ripe in my garden. To honour the first tomatoes of 2008, I made a reconstructed tomato salad. To make this salad I sliced each tomato into four slices, then put them back together, adding in a layer of fresh mozzarella cheese, course sea salt, olive oil and african blue basil, garnishing the top with mini globe basil, and finishing with a drizzle of balsamic vinegar. I probably should have made a reduction with the balsamic, would have looked better!! Sure tasted good! Ate the salad out on the patio with all of the flowers, it was lovely. I love summer!!

My Corsican Mint (Mentha requienii) is flowering! Tiny little purple flowers. I was checking on it the other day, and when I first glanced at it I wondered what had fallen down all over the lush green leaves… then I looked closer and saw they were tiny little flowers! So pretty!

Corsican Mint is interesting because it’s the mint that is used to make the liqueur Crème de menthe. It is very fragrant, just touching it lightly will leave your hand smelling strongly of mint. It makes great mint sauce.

I have nicknamed this plant “Mini Mint”.