it's October...harvest time!

We harvested most of our herbs last night. I spent hours stripping stems of their leaves. In order from front and left to right: lavender, oregano in the first bowl, a few patchouli leaves, rosemary in the small yellow bowl, basil, then thyme in the green bowl, and peppermint in the back. 

That's not even a quarter of our mint. We have a long way to go on that. These are all laid out flat to dry for about a week. There's no way we can use it all, so we will be giving some of it away. Up next; planting fall time things like mums and pansies. We got two carving pumpkins yesterday too, so we will be making some jack-o-lanterns soon! Happy FALL!