To Bed
Posted by Elizabeth on 12-02-2009 at 12:39 pm
Is it terribly sad that I didn't put the deck and garden things away until today? I think so, because the only impetus that worked was the expected, combined arrival of both the first snow of the year and my family that will be occurring this evening.
(And yes, I did spend the last month writing verbose prose, why do you ask?)
So, now the mostly-dead basil has been trimmed off. I did collect some seeds from it to start next year. Now all I need to do is work out when I need to start them. The dead mum and the remaining dead strawberry plant are in the garbage, and the deck chairs are put away.
The thyme and rosemary were moved inside about two weeks ago, and seem to be doing fine. They want some fertilizer, I think, and I need to trim off some of the thyme. It is getting out of hand.
Really, I need to play around with putting a drying rack in my furnace closet. It has a louvered door, so it would get plenty of air circulation. If I can get something hung up in there, I can dry some of the thyme and maybe some basil next year, too. Unless I use all the basil for pesto, which is unlikely.
Yesterday was spent entirely on getting the apartment ready for the holidays. Well, about an hour total was spent putting up the tree, decorating it, and wrapping presents. We have a really, really small tree. The rest of the day was spent putting away the fall decorations, which consisted largely of pumpkins. So, from one large sugar pumpkin and one small carving pumpkin (that sadly never got carved), I have about one and three-quarters cups of roasted pumpkin seeds and about seven cups of pumpkin puree for use in baking.
The oven was on from 10:30 in the morning until about 5:30 in the evening, getting everything roasted. But it's done now, and I don't have to do that again until next year. Hurray!
(And yes, I did spend the last month writing verbose prose, why do you ask?)
So, now the mostly-dead basil has been trimmed off. I did collect some seeds from it to start next year. Now all I need to do is work out when I need to start them. The dead mum and the remaining dead strawberry plant are in the garbage, and the deck chairs are put away.
The thyme and rosemary were moved inside about two weeks ago, and seem to be doing fine. They want some fertilizer, I think, and I need to trim off some of the thyme. It is getting out of hand.
Really, I need to play around with putting a drying rack in my furnace closet. It has a louvered door, so it would get plenty of air circulation. If I can get something hung up in there, I can dry some of the thyme and maybe some basil next year, too. Unless I use all the basil for pesto, which is unlikely.
Yesterday was spent entirely on getting the apartment ready for the holidays. Well, about an hour total was spent putting up the tree, decorating it, and wrapping presents. We have a really, really small tree. The rest of the day was spent putting away the fall decorations, which consisted largely of pumpkins. So, from one large sugar pumpkin and one small carving pumpkin (that sadly never got carved), I have about one and three-quarters cups of roasted pumpkin seeds and about seven cups of pumpkin puree for use in baking.
The oven was on from 10:30 in the morning until about 5:30 in the evening, getting everything roasted. But it's done now, and I don't have to do that again until next year. Hurray!
Garden
