Taking advantage of some nice weather to do some outdoor work today. I dug up some herbs for moving inside – rosemary, thyme, and a little parsley. The angel wing begonia has become extravagantly showy in its pot during the summer. It may decline once moved inside. I can’t believe it became so happy outdoors this summer. This plant originally came from Patrick Smith.
I planted some lemon balm in the hole left by one of the rosemary plants. This came from Roberta, in trade for some comfrey and rudbeckia laciniata I gave her. It doesn’t look like much now, but I’m hoping it will fill in.
Horseradish stalks dried and saved from 2020 were put back to soak in the cement mixing trough. I’m not looking forward to scraping them, but I want the fiber enough that I’ve saved them for a whole year waiting for the right time to process them. I think the time has come.
Finally, another crafty project – braiding onions. I’ve never done this before, mostly because I don’t preserve stems on my onions and I don’t grow soft-neck garlic. But I reserved a few with stems this year so I could give it a try. Start with three at the base and add in the center and at the sides as you braid the stems upwards. Pretty easy, but I didn’t do a good job and my braid broke. It held together long enough for a photo though.
