I’d planned to put 40 cups of chopped Wallas in the freezer and fill at least one ½ gallon jar with dehydrated onions. On Thursday I got 30 cups chopped and 1 dehydrator filled. So Friday I was determined to finish them.
I went out and got a smaller bowl of ones with the green tops.
I again took dehydrator duty while my helper friend chopped. Once he finished that, he came and helped with the dehydrators. Those are the last 2 trays for the 2nd dehydrator. That should fill the jar, maybe with some extra.
My helper friend had left and I started the onion greens. These are packaged in ½ cup bags. I got 16 of them. So food preservation for people is done when I empty the dehydrator on Saturday morning.
The Anne raspberry is still going great guns. I am surprised the chipmunk hasn’t gotten them all, now the hole is filled in…
In the Big garden it looks like the azalea is doing fine. The quince (not pictured) might just survive.
The calendula growing near it took a beating when we were working there, but has come back nicely. I need to start dehydrating the flowers for the layers.
I don’t remember transplanting this chamomile from a garden, but I must have. It’s doing well. More dehydrator fodder.
The volunteer nasturtium is also doing well, another candidate for the dehydrator.
As I left the Big garden and walked under the saucer magnolia, I noticed it had big buds on it. Unusual for this time of year…
New Herb garden, Row 2, borage
The borage has gone crazy in the New Herb garden. I need to get out there and rein in some of these take-over-the-world plants.
New Herb garden, Row 3, spotted bee balm
This is the tiny plant I bought at the Old Sturbridge sale in May. The name was intriguing. It doesn’t much look like the other bee balms…
New Herb garden, Row 3, lemon verbena
Much to my delight, the lemon verbena has again done excellently. I need to dehydrate a bunch of this before it gets much colder…
New Herb garden, Row 5, pineapple sage with dew and a bee
New Herb garden, Row 5, pineapple sage
You’d never know it but just a couple weeks ago, my helper friend savagely hacked this pineapple sage back into its boundaries.
New Herb garden, Row 5, sage
Next to the pineapple sage, the sage has come back well from the pruning we gave it a couple weeks back. I should have sage leaves into January, if last year is any indication.
Mostly things are winding down in the gardens, or there’s so many weeds I can’t find them. Now the food preservation is done, I hope to resume tackling the gardens.
