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Protection Jar Spell

Ingredients:

Sea salt

Black pepper

Chilli powder

Bay leaves

One Jar

White candle (which candle is optional but white stands for protection and purity)

Stay safe 🕊

Then and now.

A little over a month difference with my herb box! I love watching plants grow. The one difference you will see is that the thyme was replaced with lavender. Soon after I planted the box, I learned that thyme does not like as much water as the rest of these herbs, so I removed the thyme to have a pot of its own. Now the lavender plant is thriving with the rest!

Homemade tomato pie. A South Carolinian favorite. Love using ingredients from the garden.

First pickle of the season! Fresh cucumbers from the farmers market, and fresh dill from the garden!

I love being able to reuse perfectly fine spaghetti sauce or salsa jars from the store, so I love to save them aside for pickling and much more! In addition to some Ball jars I have sitting around too.

Late garden update. My garden brought me a lot of joy this summer. Working solely remote with work and online classes to finish my MBA, my garden is what gave me some responsibility out of the house. Even though it was in the backyard, it was still out of my room nevertheless.

After enjoying endless recipes using the vegetables and herbs, it was time to regenerate. The dirt in all my pots, including the plants were placed in the compost today. The compost and the dirt will create some beautiful soil for next season. There were a few herbs that I wasn’t quite done with yet, so they are hanging out on the porch for now. I love how every part of the plant has its use from seed to compost. Nothing goes to waste!

Garden Update! My herb baskets have really grown up and are shooting up to bloom for the pollinators to come by. Same goes for my butter crunch lettuce.

I was able to successfully move 3/4 of my Brussels sprouts to individual pots to help them flourish more. And look! I have broccoli and carrots coming in!

The newest addition: squash and zucchini. I’m going to work on building a wire trellis along the fence for them to climb today so they have get big and produce lots of veggies.