Today’s Mint Harvest

The most productive and easiest plant to grow in my home gardens is mint. A few years ago I planted three types of mint: spearmint, peppermint, and common. Common came and went after a year but the other two come back in a big way year after year. Mint is a perennial and pervasive plant.

I grew mint since it is a common herb used in Middle Eastern cooking and is good for salads. Most of the mint I clean, dehydrate, crushed and put into empty spice jars. First I called it “Uncle Bob’s SPC mint”, but after the common mint did not come back I just called it “Uncle Bob’s Mint.” I gave my brothers’ and son’s families a jar. One year my grandson Carson picked, dried and bottled the mint calling it “C Mint”. But there is only so much mint used in salads and Middle Eastern cooking. Now my daughter-in-law has two partially full jars of mint at home. Since the mint is more abundant each year we needed to look for other uses. My wife found some empty tea bags last year so we started making mint tea bags.

I could have picked much more mint today than is in the big bowl pictured but was limited by my ability to wash the mint and the size of my dehydrator. I am looking for ways to use mint. Any suggestions?

My friends from India’s daughter called me tonight from Omaha, NE where she works as an IT person. She might work in computer technology, but her passion is cooking and she is good at it. She offered to come to Milwaukee in September for a cooking class followed by a dinner. That should be useful for Indian cooking and delicious. Hopefully Indian cooking makes use of mint. For there is more mint to pick.

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