It was a fairly nice day here in New Hampshire, so I decided to go out in the garden and pull the Basil “shrub” that I grew there! Honestly, that thing was about 2 and a half feet high and grew up like a shrub.
Once pulled, I took each leaf off and washed them thoroughly. Then put them in a salad spinner, and then out on clean dish towel to dry. Once they are all dried, put the leaves on a cookie sheet and flash freeze them. After, you wrap the leaves in wax paper, and tuck them into a Ziploc Bag, and return to the freezer.
Soon I will pull the last of the weeds from the garden and then turn the soil once more. Hubby will fertilize it and then the garden is ready to be left for the winter.
I broke out my wool winter sweaters today and have them airing on our screened in porch. They smell a wee bit like cedar, and that scent bothers me, so I hope that the airing will work.
I’ve also gotten together our winter coats, hats and gloves. I would like to get Hubby’s Ski Bag packed for the year as well. There is nothing worse, and more nerve wracking, then trying to get this all ready the night before the first snow!
Now, off to clear out our kitchen freezer and organize it a bit. Really people this cleaning bug had better get lost quickly! I simply do not feel like myself holding a vacuum cleaner in one hand and a dusting cloth in the other!
I would desperately need to make my garden ready for winter but there is just never time. *sigh*
Come on down here when you are done and help me to my garden etc. Might as well put the energy to good use. LOL! Love YOU, Mel
Since the season seem to disappear here, and I almost wear the same things summer and winter, I don’t separate winter and summer clothes anymore. I wore a summerdress maybe twice this year !
Oh the gardening never ends, does it!!! So much to do, and in mine, there is probably more!! The Dracunculus vulgaris is about to flower, any day now, so that will upset the neighbours on that side (given it smells like rotting flesh!!). I just hope that Bronty doesn’t take a liking to it!!