Lugnasa Hiroshima Moon
Cool. Rainy. Clouds. Ahhh.
My whole Minnesota self sighed today as the clouds rolled in, a bit of chill rain hit the windshield and the temperature hovered around 70 and below. This is curl up with a book or hit the computer or nap or just enjoy the evidence of the sun slowly giving up to night. Me. I plan to do them all.
Each aspect of the gardening season has its pleasures, but this one, preparing food for the long fallow time has many.
Kate came downstairs this morning and showed me a container full of dried garlic slices. They look like tiny potato chips, but pack a heavy garlic punch. I ate one, so I know. We also pulled all the pears off the tree (well, ok, there were 5.), brought them inside and put them in the fridge. Turns out, according to our drying book, that pears ripen better off the tree. Keeping them in the fridge holds back the ripening and we’re doing that so we can dry them with the apples which don’t come to maturity until September or so.
