Today

 Has been a quiet day. The weather has been sunnier and no rain, but still a little cloudy and the clouds seem to threaten more rain.  Today I have checked on my mint which was drying off the Dresser and that is now all dry and so it has been crumbled into the Mint storage jar and the level is slowly creeping up.  I have added more fresh mint to the Dresser to dry.  I am trying to squirrel away what I can in readiness for the winter months which are slowly creeping up on us.

I have been into the greenhouses and watered up.  I checked on my sacrificial stems that I had planted in water the other day to grow roots.  They have sprouted well but I am going to leave them for a couple of more days before doing anything with them.  I want to be able to direct plant them in the Herb garden to make a bigger bed of Mint than I have at the moment.

The Scarlet Emperor Runner Beans are also ready to go into the soil they are going great guns.  Fingers crossed will get something out of it at the end of the day. French Beans are doing nicely.

I have checked on the drying mint on the Dresser.  This is now ready and has been rubbed and decanted into the Mint jar.  The level is slowly growing which I am pleased about.  There will still be a couple more pickings yet.  Needless to say I have put another load on the Dresser to Dry.

Yesterday I finished off my Basil in Oil which is a way of preserving Basil over the winter months.  Basically you use some salt, Basil leaves and then oil working your way up the jar in layers.  Popping a lid on. Check on the oil level on a regular basis as sometimes it drops.  Also check regularly to make sure that the Basil looks well.  I will get both a little Basil Oil as well as the leaves from this.  I may well prepare another jar.

I also have the Basil stems drying as well.  Not sure what I am going to do with them but I will play about a bit.

Tea tonight is a beautiful piece of Loin Pork.  The crackling has come up well on it.  Have served mashed potato, roast potato, cabbage, Romanesco, carrots and peas with lots of gravy oh and some roast onion.  Has gone down very nicely.  There are some photos on my Instagram account.  I am having issues on this account for the time being with photos but hopefully this will be sorted out soon.    I hope to post the photos up for each story once sorted. There are a few.

Instagram account link is here:

Tarragon and Thyme on Instagram

Short and sweet tonight.

Catch you soon.

Pattypan

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