... and so our gardening season ends.

Aaron a I took down the garden this weekend.  We harvested the last of the kale plants and the herbs and threw down the yard waste (leaves, sticks, etc) to prepare for the coming frosts and snow. 

We decided to blanche the kale to bag and freeze and dried the herbs.  For the kale Aaron blanched it in batches for 30 seconds and then cooled them down in cold water, patted them dry and bagged them for freezing.

Frozen portions of kale to be bagged.

As for the herbs, we simply put the oven to 170 and dried them for a few hours.

Rosemary and Sage.

When the herbs were dry we cooled them on the counter and put them into tupperware.  I decided to put in some dry rice at the bottom of the tupperware just incase there is some moisture left.  I don't want the herbs to get moldy if there happened to be a bit of moisture left.