YAY! I was invited to a pot-luck at the last minute last week and was able to throw together a beautiful salad (many compliments!) of several lettuces, chives, radishes, basil, chard, leeks and topped it off with chive flowers and nastursiums! It was very beautiful, and tasty too! Oh, I did add some nonhomegrown tomatoes and green onions. Too much fun! Nancy

I don't hang any herbs in bunches to dry. I've had some poor results - mold and poor drying where the plants are bunched. I live in a moist, cool location so I either use a food dehydrator or lay the herbs on screens to dry. With screens, I cover them in paper toweling first to keep the screens clean and to keep herbs from cross-contaminating. For stuff like mint, I never use the food dehydrator. Even on the lowest heat setting it is too hot. Just air dry them. Get some inexpensive window screens or screening material and some wood to make your own if you plan on doing a lot of herb drying. FataMorgana This post was edited by fatamorgana on Fri, Apr 5, 13 at 18:46

Well this is what's left of the peppers. When I'm finished harvesting the bottle should be full. Ron

Hi Silvia, so glad you found your way back :-) My mouth always gets watery and could devour most all of your posted pics! Looks like you captured the Sun's Gold for a real Sweet Treat in a celestial blue pleated plate! ;-) I'll have to raid my Santas so the grape can make it's last stand for a respectable picture to keep up with you for the moment ;-). The only nice thing about this cold here is that if the tomatoes are kept above freezing, they can last so long on the plants ... they don't have top be picked every day as long as they are protected from birds and squirrels (!!!) I bet your transplants are quite big by now, and that's a nice cherry tomato trick to have some munching maters to fill in the gap. I'd like to do that but everything is tied up and intertwined, and since I'm also working with seedlings each day. I'm afraid to clean up little by little with the mold spores that will go flying in my hair and clothes if I try to separate the plants. Suddenly I'm hungry! Cheer! PC