The garden grows beneath a layer of summer gone. I combed dry leaves and branches from parsley, asparagus, iris and lily leaves, green and crisp and pulled on roots of grass and peppermint, to restrain them.
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Herb Thresher
I grow a lot of herbs and usually dry them when it’s harvest time. After the leaves of an herb are dry, they can be stored whole or ground up. Grinding them makes it easy to sprinkle the herb into your recipes. When I saw this gadget at …
Read MoreParsley Getting Started
Parsley is a bi-annual plant, which means that it lasts for two growing seasons. I like to have parsley in my kitchen garden in the wintertime. One reason is because it stays green in the winter, another is that it’s almost always nice to add …
Read MoreMy Winter Garden
I like living in the upstate of South Carolina. We get four seasons, but winter is mild. It can be drab though. Our mostly hardwood trees just look grey and naked and forlorn in the winter time. We had a warmish weekend, and I stepped …
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