Oregano, Sage and Thyme drying on the Clothes airer
I have just spent about an hour or so out in the garden to see what herbs etc were ready to harvest. I ended up with a big bucket of sage, oregano and thyme. So I brought that indoors and began the process of making it into bunches and tieing it off with some wool. Now, the problem is, I don't have a proper herb drying rack. What to do, think outside the box, ta da. A solution presented itself in the form of my clothes drying rack. It has 3 levels and is on castors, making it quite easy to move around. I worked out it will hold 16 bunches of herbs per level giving enough space for 48 bunches in total. Feel pretty chuffed about it because I now only have to worry about finding a food dehydrator for the celery leaves and basil. Mind you it will also be used for a variety of fruits I want to dry to make snack packs for the winter. Think that issue may have been resolved as I found one on Ebay for around $39 plus P&H of around $10. I almost have all the required equipment to make my food preserving kit complete. I actually had to buy a food processor to do some of the prep work for jams and pickles as my arm is not at it's best and I find chopping a bit of an issue. (thanks to family for the envelopes with money at Christmas time.)
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