Reinvent the Mojito with Ingredients You Grow in Your Garden

If you've ever looked for an excuse to start a garden on your patio, then look no more. A cocktail garden is the perfect reason. It has never been easier to grow nearly all the ingredients needed for a delicious cocktail from your own garden. With just a few garden tools, maintaining your cocktail garden and creating cocktails is a breeze.

How to Plant and Maintain a Cocktail Garden:

1. Choose the herbs and containers you want for your favorite cocktails. For a classic mojito, you will want to grow a lime bush and mint herb plants.

2. Add soil to your containers using your Big Grip Trowel.

3. Loosen the root ball and plant your herbs into your containers.

4. Trim any dead or damaged stems with the compact Softouch® Micro-Tip® Pruning Snip. These snips have softgrip handles to give you better control for those intricate cuts in and around the small stems of your herbs.

5. While the plants are growing bigger, trim buds, dead or damaged leaves and stems on a regular basis. The RazorEdge™ blades on the Micro-Tip® snips are a great choice because they create a crisp clean cut. Clean cuts promote healthy green growth.

6. When you are ready to pick the herbs and fruit, use your snips to cut just below the fruit on the stem, or a few inches up from the soil for herbs. Take care not to reduce more than 20 percent of the plant when picking herbs.

Once you get started, fresh from the garden cocktails are only a few feet away. For a fresh twist on a favorite summertime cocktail try this Blueberry Thyme Mojito by Russell van Kraayenburg.

Ingredients

4 sprigs thyme

10 blueberries

1/4 small lemon

1/2 ounce granulated sugar

2 ounces white rum

Crushed ice

Club Soda

Directions:

1. Muddle the thyme, blueberries, lemon, and sugar in the bottom of a tom collins glass.

2. Pour in the rum and stir.

3. Add enough ice to fill the glass to the top.

4. Pour in club soda to fill the glass and stir.

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