Sisyphus Acres

The Herb Garden ~ tea time!!!

Well if the veggie garden was a disappointment this year, the herb garden certainly was a delightful surpise!  I have over a quart of catnip for kitties and teas ~ I have a quart of peppermint for teas, and more to cut and dry this weekend ~ I have a quart of pineapple sage (great for congestion and yummy too) ~ almost a pint of lemon verbena, chocolate mint and spearmint ~ a bit of chammomile.  I harvested bunches off my chives, the rosemary, tarragon, sage, thyme, clinatro, dill, all for cooking.  Basil didn't do terribly great with the damp cool start, but recovered to yield a few pestos before the time was through.  I got a great bunch of leeks out of the garden, and a couple of birdhouse gourds.  The echinacea grew wonderfully and the lavender settled in as well ~ I am enlarging this garden as well and hope to get garlic planted in there soon for spring.

We bought tea balls and reuseable muslin bags (for gifting teas) ~ when we finished crushing them all ~ Hannah had a teas sampler night and made every kind of tea there, and even mixed a few!  It is going to be a tasty winter.

Val