[Ag-eq] garden

[David Andrews via Ag-eq]

You can also dry herbs py placing a handful or so in a paper bag like 
you would pack a lunch in.  As I recall, it takes a few weeks, but 
the herbs dry fine.

Dave

At 07:23 AM 5/28/2014, you wrote:
>Hi Nella.
>Nice!
>My eggplant almost never works out, but I keep trying, because I 
>love eggplant.
>I'm still getting lettuces.  I've got a ton of arugula, which I'm 
>going to use some of with pasta tonight.
>I got my first oregano harvest last weekend.  I have lots more to 
>cut, but no good place to hang it to dry.  I'm debating getting a 
>little dehydrator.
>I bought a Cuban oregano at the town garden sale.  It has a great, 
>spicy oregano smell.  It has really thick, fuzzy leaves, sort of 
>like geranium leaves, but even thicker.  Maybe I'll try chopping up 
>a leaf with my pasta tonight.
>
>I'm way behind in planting.  I strained my back a couple weeks ago, 
>and I've had trouble getting down on the ground, but it's finally 
>getting better.
>Tracy
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "via Ag-eq" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
>To: "Jewel" <jewelblanch at kinect.co.nz>; "Agricultural and Equestrean 
>Division List" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Monday, May 26, 2014 1:14 PM
>Subject: [Ag-eq] garden
>
>
>>I think I have the best garden ever this year.  Yesterday I got 4 squash, a
>>cucumber and 2 tomatoes.  I have already gotten several squash, cucumbers and
>>tomatoes.  The lettuces are pretty much gone, it got to hot for them and now
>>they taste bitter.  I have eggplants almost big enough to pick.  The tomato
>>plants are loaded, so are the squash and cucumber.  The peppers are blooming,
>>but no peppers yet.  All the herbs are looking good.  I wish I had 
>>more space.
>>I have plans to build a couple more raised beds, so maybe next year my garden
>>can be larger.
>>
>>Nella
>>Quoting Jewel via Ag-eq <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>:
>>
>>>When I put Guideon out at 7 this morning, I found a large pool on 
>>>the carpet!
>>>  No!  it did not come
>>>with the compliments of G, but from the sky and then via the roof.
>>>One of the weaknesses of the type of roof that I have:  2 gables 
>>>with a gully
>>>between them:  is that
>>>if the guttering is bllocked, as it was this morning, with snow, the water
>>>that should have escaped
>>>by way of the downpipe, creeps up the gully until it reaches the lower edge
>>>of the 2nd row of iron
>>>sheets and it gets under it and makes its way into the house.
>>>There have been periodic waterfalls from this weakness, but not for a long
>>>time.
>>>I put a  couple of buckets under the leaks and one of them 
>>>collected about an
>>>inch of water, but it
>>>is all fine now, fpor the moment anyway!
>>>
>>>         Jewel