Saturday, November 6, 2010

Too Late

I didn't mow the lawn last weekend because we had company and also it hadn't grown that much. I did notice how many perfect leaves were on the backyard basil - about two feet wide and three feet high full of aromatic leaves.
I was thinking as I mowed, I should pick those leaves and put them in the slow oven to dry. Wouldn't fresh, homemade basil smell good!
Then we had company and a couple of nights of frost.
When I mowed the lawn today, I saw that my organic food alarm did not go off and warn me the plant was suffering, and now it is dead.
So a gardening lesson: Vinca and Snapdraggons tolerate frost. Basil doesn't.

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