[Ag-eq] garden

[Susan Roe via Ag-eq]

That is how we dry most of our herbs in the paper bags.  My dehydrator has a 
setting for herbs, but I have never tried using it.  We usually use so much 
fresh that there is not enough to put in the machine, hence using the paper 
bags.

Susan
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Andrews via Ag-eq" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
To: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>; "Agricultural and Equestrean 
Division List" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] garden


> 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
>
>
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