Drawing MUST commence! Wish I had more emotional energy for it...
On a more positive note, my non-wintering herbs are starting to come up. That always makes me happy.
I grew Angelica for the first time this past summer. It has lovely leaves and a number of questionable culinary uses. In it's second year it's supposed to get REALLY tall (8 feet or more) - so I'll have to see if it's outgrown it's space.
And I did a little happy-dance when I saw that my chives are re-emerging! Chives and thyme - I use almost non-stop all summer. I'm growing even more chives this year so that I make use of the blossoms as well (yum!). If you let your chives flower willy-nilly, the leaf production goes way down, and since I use the leaves so much I let very few flowers happen. If I grow twice as many plants, I can let half of them flower. I found a recipe for sesame-chive-blossom-asparagus that is to die for - can't wait to grow enough blossoms to make it more than once or twice this year.
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Good luck with drawing and teaching, its really hard changing hats all the time. Your herbs are looking lovely I won't show them to dylan rabbit he will be after me to plant more so he can eat them again!
Sounds like you've been busy! I can totally relate. I've been having trouble finding enough quiet time to do some drawing. I hope to have a small window to jump through tonight, we'll see.
I do love to cook with chives, and thyme is pretty to look at, I think. Are you willing to share that asparagus recipe? Sounds yummers.
Ah, you must be a few weeks ahead of us weather wise. My plants are still keeping their heads down...
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