Gardens are weird! You would think they would be reliable from season to season, but…no! For as many years back as I can remember, it was the sage that overtook my space. This year… the sage is barely there and the oregano has gone to town. Sending out runners, invading the other plants’ space, growing as tall as the artichoke plant (well, as you can see, almost that tall), and flowering on a daily basis. I’m constantly cutting that stuff and throwing it in the compost bin. Today, I’m taking a new approach. After running out of dried oregano, which sometimes – in certain recipes is better to use than fresh, I’ve decided to dry my own. Crazy that this thought hadn’t crossed my mind before. Well, maybe it had, but I wasn’t desperate enough to do it before. I’ve given it a try, do a taste-test with the store-bought dried and mine and although the store-bought is a brighter green than mine, it tastes the same. Yeah, I win! Here are the steps I took to quickly and efficiently dry my oregano.

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