It was a beautiful Sunday today. It rained on Friday evening, and was kind of chilly yesterday, so today seemed even more lovely. It's supposed to rain most of this week, so I guessed today would be one of the few days when I could grab the remaining herbs from my garden and work on preserving them.
Got that huge pile of catnip cut down and bundled, and grabbed some of the long stems of mint, to dry. Then our neighbor had me come over to get some things out of their garden -- parsley, lovage, tarragon, oregano, and sage. And lots and lots of Swiss chard, which I'm having for dinner.
I've decided to dry the herbs in a seldom-used closet. It's dry and it will be dark. And I found the perfect hanging device in there -- a hanger made to hold 4 skirts or pairs of pants. It is long, with 8 clips spaced on each level.
Bundled all those herbs with string and clipped them all on!
Now the herbs are spaced out, and not just in a thick bundle. It's all hanging nicely in the closet.
AND, there was a nice surprise waiting for me in the garden -- The green beans grew! We had so many plants, and they all grew thick and huge and tall! But because they were planted so late, and were just blossoming in September, I figured we probably wouldn't have any beans. It would get too cold before the beans could grow. But it's been a mild autumn so far, so we have beans!
I've also picked all the little green tomatoes, and I've got those in a paper bag in the kitchen. Maybe, hopefully, some of those will ripen up for us.
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