My First Garden Harvest

Here is the result of my first garden harvest:

It's not what you think it is! :)

My basil has been growing quite well, and after reading up on harvesting it, I decided to give it a nice trim.

  I left two sets of leaves under the stalks I clipped.

 For this first batch, I decided to break out my underutilized food dehydrator and try to dry some basil.  The instructions say to use the lowest setting, about 95 degrees, for 2-3 hours.

There was barely any noticeable progress made during that time, so I let it run overnight. The next morning the leaves were still not dry! So I cranked up the heat to full power and they were dry within a couple hours.  Not sure if my machine is not working correctly or if the instructions were way off?

In the end, I was left with crispy basil leaves that I put into a plastic bag to crumble up:

 I added them on top of my bottled oregano and look forward to using it in my future dishes!