basil – Cross Road Gardens

Tiny leaved basil?

September 28, 2021October 24, 2021 CatherineLeave a comment

Isn’t this weird? These plants grew from regular basil seed, among the basil plants with normal sized leaves. They smell and taste like basil. In hindsight, I should have frozen them to use in soup or something. But I composted them instead because – too weird.

Basil and peppers

August 27, 2021October 6, 2021 CatherineLeave a comment

These are the crops growing the raised beds in the hoophouse area, which has been uncovered this summer to benefit from the natural sunshine and rain.

Basil, direct-seeded. These were planted relatively late and did well. There are some strange tiny-leaved plants in there. A form of stunted dwarf basil?

The peppers that did well were purchased as seedlings. The plants I grew from seed did nothing. I probably transplanted them when the ground was not yet warm enough. I have a lot of trouble with peppers.

Basil for freezing

August 31, 2020August 31, 2020 CatherineLeave a comment

I harvested one row of the remaining basil patch in the hoophouse. Following this blog post’s recommendation of the best way, I washed and dried the leaves and stuffed them into freezer bags. Easy. Much easier than attempting to freeze as pesto in ice cube trays, which was honestly a disaster.

More basil to process, about three times that much again. I like it fresh but it’s starting to get brown.

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