Growing Your Own: Basil

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How do I grow basil?

Growing Your Own: Basil

Basil loves hot dry weather, which seems to concentrate its flavor. It needs good soil and a sunny spot in your garden. It can be grown from seed but must not be sown outdoors until all danger of frost has passed.

Basil does well in a pot on a sunny windowsill as long as it is watered regularly and fed with an all-purpose fertilizer once a month.

Pick the leaves whenever you need them. If you pinch out the tip, then the basil will grow bushier. Basil is best used fresh. For winter reserves, keep a few pots on the windowsill or place whole basil leaves into ice cube trays, cover with water and freeze.

   

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