My first day up here when I didn’t have to work. So I was able to enjoy puttering around the house. Moved things around in the woodshed, so the wood can go in there. Some of this furniture may have to be discarded.
I also oiled the butcher block next to the stove for the first time. Once a day for a week.
And oiled the large butcher block – once a week for a month on Friday.
There are a lot of tomatoes that could be harvested – tomorrow.
I took a short bike ride around the loop to the ocean and back around Grant Street. It sure was a beautiful October day out there.
I transplanted the herbs and plants from Connecticut. Wonder how many will make it.
- Walking onions – back row of garden
- Comfrey – at head of back row in garden
- Peppermint – stuck a stalk in the back raised bed; no roots on it, not sure if it will reroot
- Lemon Balm – a large clump went into the head of the front row in the garden, next to the raised bed; this plant smells great and the bees love it
- Berggarten Sage – a small clump in one of the herb pocket gardens
- Feverfew – planted some very tender transplants in the same herb pocket as the sage; maybe it will self-seed like it does in Connecticut
- Rosemary – put it in a pot because it won’t survive the winter; maybe we’ll get to enjoy it as a houseplant for awhile longer, sure looks nice and healthy
- Catmint – planted the clump in the triangle right off the deck, should look great there if it takes hold
- Artemisia – planted it next to the lavender already growing in the perennial bed, around the corner near where the root cellar would be