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To: Marcella
Have no idea how to dry herbs.

You can dry them in a pillowcase in the clothes dryer.. just kidding..

I think some people do it in their pilot light oven, their dehydrator, or if it's hotter than heck, set them in the inside ledge behind the back seat of their car.

I have a giant herb drying rack above my kitchen table..They were popular in the 70's. It has wire hooks over the wooden cross pieces and you can rubber band or twist tie the bunches of herbs, and hang them (upside down) on the hooks..

Heck, you could even clothespin those bunches of herbs to a clothes hanger if you wanted and hang it in a warm, dry spot...

134 posted on 08/31/2013 7:39:14 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Of Course I didn't read the article. After all, this is FreeRepublic..)
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To: sockmonkey

So, I can dry the herbs in the dehydrator which I don’t have yet. Drying outside here is pretty much out since it’s humid here most of the time.

While looking for something else a while ago, I found two booklets that I got for husband about three years ago, they are “Container Gardening” and “Starting Seeds Indoors”. I had forgotten about these booklets since I didn’t read them. In the back of the container gardening one, there is a list of herbs and where they like best to grow and how to take care of them. That takes care of learning about herbs.

I’ll read the starting seeds one to see if there is something else I need to know besides what I’m already doing to germinate seeds under the grow light I have. It covers the transplanting into the garden which for me is transplanting into containers.


135 posted on 08/31/2013 8:11:05 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.)
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To: sockmonkey; Marcella
"Heck, you could even clothespin those bunches of herbs to a clothes hanger if you wanted and hang it in a warm, dry spot..."

That's how I do it. Simple as can be.

195 posted on 09/03/2013 10:13:21 AM PDT by Augie
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