Packing up for the winter.
It’s definitely getting colder here in Nelson. You can’t walk outdoors without a jacket (it feels like a distant dream when it was 40 degrees straight that week), the clouds are so low you can almost touch them, and it’s getting dark at 6pm.
Everybody’s packing in their gardens, the city has ripped out all of their annuals and cut back the perennials. The hedging all along the streets downtown have been trimmed for the season.
So what do I do?
I plant seeds of course!
Granted these seeds are indoors in a very bright light. But I really hate having nothing springing forth from soil, even if it is in a tiny terra cotta pot that only measures 1″ across.
Notice the freaky green mutant seed. These are supposedly all rubin basil.
October 20th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
I too have been reluctantly packing up for winter. My husband harvested all the basil (this was my first successful year with it)last night and made pesto, which was super yummy, so I guess there are some up sides to the end of the grow season. Anyways, having a fear of basil withdrawal i too started some seed indoors. Im not sure how it will fare indoors esp over winter. anyone ever done this before? Any tips? I also planted some lettuce for fear of garden withdrawal. Its sprouted but dont know if it will make it. its in a window box on my covered porch so we will see!
October 20th, 2006 at 7:51 pm
Just make sure they get tons of light, that’s about it, and don’t keep them too close to a window with a really cold draft :).
October 22nd, 2006 at 7:58 am
lora, good work for getting all the basil harvested in time. I only managed to turn one of my four plants into pesto. I had intended to clean everything up today but of course it’s pouring rain out. Maybe tomorrow will be nicer. I have that day off, too.