Harvest continues…
Tomatoes, carrots, swiss chard, peppers still to put up.
Herbs to dry.
September garden.
September Garden
life in and around the garden
life in and around the garden
Harvest continues…
Tomatoes, carrots, swiss chard, peppers still to put up.
Herbs to dry.
September garden.
down to earth digs 
I don’t have space on our mostly shaded lot in town for a garden. But I do pot tomatoes and this year, also two potatoes and basil and oregano, along with lettuce in the soil. I wonder why I’ve never planted herbs prior to this year. I love, love, love, and use my basil, especially, all the time.
You must be extremely busy bringing in the harvest.
Many herbs work wonderful in pots, but I do recommend putting them in separate pots, not combined together like you see garden centers promoting or magazines showing…use them a lot or just keep them trimmed back…then they don’t get leggy and produce nice healthy, tender leaves to use.
Oh, my how I love herbs and could chat all morning about them!!!
Have a wonderful weekend Audrey.
Stacey
In my favorite daydreams, I have a big, shady screen house for drying herbs, flowers, garlic, and onions…and a bench to sit on and breathe them in 🙂
If you don’t hear from me next week, I might have drowned under a pile of green beans. I’m getting a half-bushel every few days!
Years ago I used to visit a sale in the Fall, that was held in a couple of old farm buildings….one of the buildings she hung all her herbs, and flowers to dry from the rafters, and I remember the scent was heavenly–not to mention the sight! The greenhouse is to bright and to hot with all the glass–I need a little farm shed to do my drying….on my wish list!
Happy bean picking!
That reminds me, I have herbs to harvest too! No veggies this year because of all my travel, but the farm grew some nice tomatoes and peppers. I have a raid on the veggie patch already scheduled.
I used to just air dry my herbs, but started using the dehydrator last year…makes it faster and they retain a nice color.
I found some cute jars this Summer that I’m going to use for storing them.
Happy harvesting!