the last ripe tomatoe

I picked my last ripe tomato yesterday. Thanks to the difficult but necessary aggressive pruning a few weeks ago, I am left with 3 good sized green tomatoes, and that is a lot less then in past years, so that mid august prune really did help grow and ripen the last of my harvest. I can't help but feel like I barely scratched the surface on what I wanted to accomplish this year, as we are well into fall here in the poconos. But I guess with my son's cancer, I have an excuse. Except that if there was some type of "emergency" where I would need to be ready, I am not and it makes me unhappy. In the next few weeks along with trying to get some wood chopped for winter, I am going to work on the list for spring. What I want to get done, what I need to get in order to accomplish my goals and how I can on a shoestring budget bring it all to fruition. what's on your list?

medicinal oregano oil

Here's a simplified explanation of the good uses of oregano oil. Personally I think it is a very useful and important plant to keep for it's uses. there are worse things then smelling like a pizza..

oh so good....

Oregano oil....I am making oregano oil today from my herb garden. These are some fresh young growths after I cut the garden all back and dried most of the oregano. I took some of the leaves and ground them up in the food processor with some olive oil, then strained it through some cheese cloth. I then pour it into a small bottle adding a whole spring of oregano to decorate it. It is simply delicious on bruschetta, added to a little spaghetti, and even spread on the crust of homemade pizza. Also excellent for salad dressing. There is also medicinal uses for Oregano, but it is not the "standard" grown herb, and differs slightly. I grow both types, once for the more medicinal uses and one for eating, but both are delicious and can be added to your favorite dishes. The medicinal type is Oregano oil made from Origanum Vulgare more on that tomorrow....yum..time for dinner