In this slow gardening video, I’m picking sage from my garden and drying it as a garland. This is a simple method to dry herbs without needing a dehydrator and without taking up too much space.
It took about 10 days for the sage to dry, but I left it hanging for 2 weeks, just to make sure there was no moisture left in the leaves. Any herb will keep longer when the leaves are fully dry before you store it.
This particular sage cultivar is called Berggarten and it has larger and rounder leaves than the more common blue-flowered sage. As you can see in the video, this variety has a mounding growth habit and it stays pretty low to the ground.
It is semi-evergreen in my climate, so even though it drops some of the bottom leaves, it still maintains most of its foliage during the cold months. In fact, the foliage gets even more silvery, making it an attractive feature in the winter garden.
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