Tea in the garden

It was actually nice and warm today.  Sunny, no need for a coat.  But, despite the fair weather, I began to get frost-panicky, and thought I should pick some herbs to dry.  I try to wait till the last minute, remembering how lovely and warm November was last year, but I really wanted to have a lot of dried herbs this year, so I did a fair amount of pruning today.  There's nothing worse than a sneaky frost creeping in over night, then waking up to black sludge where your charming herb patch used to be.  Today I gathered parsley, basil, pineapple sage, rosemary, hot peppers and lemon grass.  I'm not sure if you can actually dry lemon grass, or what in the world I'd do with it anyway, but it's worth a try.  The general state of the little garden is pretty sad.  Some brave tomatoes are hanging on for dear life, the bell peppers are finally wilting and the eggplant and squash were dead long ago (don't get me started on the squash.)  The small patch of greens and bok choy looks happy, makes me wish I'd planted more.

A few zinnias are hanging on, barely.   I've been too busy lazy to weed the "cutting garden" area, and it is totally overgrown with weeds.  Thanks to the droppings of a nearby bird feeder, wild sunflowers and millet are all over.  I think I may put up a sign to deem it a Wildlife Preserve.  I'm not the only one who abandons their gardens in the fall.  I see the sad, overgrown messes all over town.  Spent and neglected, their beauty enjoyed in the summer, then left to decay.  But then, that's the life of an annual.  Sprout, grow, bloom/fruit then die.  Yet, the seeds, the babies, their life's work, are left behind.  Just waiting

Enough of that, I have a ghost costume to make.

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[Led Grow Lights]

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