Thursday, October 27, 2011

There Will be Basil

I've decided to plant basil seeds in the hopes of improving my pasta dishes.

Plus, I'm now living out my fantasies from The Professional.

Watering the owl, done.
Dusting my plant, in progress.

Assuming I remember to water these little guys every few days and that the terrible soil we have in Southern California has any nutrients in it at all, I should have leafy green things to eat in a few months.

Updated: November 7, 2011:
Here is a photo for Electric Addict who made a note in the comments about my not including a photo. For the record, I haven't seen leafy green things emerge from this pot yet myself:

Soon, I hope

22 comments:

  1. haha good stuff man. Everything fresh grown is better

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  2. I have basil in my garden... it smells SO good when you harvest it. Definitely a good investment.

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  3. may have to get round to adding this to the vege garden. and watching leon the professional again haha

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  4. Nice movie.
    I like this blog.
    +Follow

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  5. The nice thing about herbs is that most don't need super rich soil. Compact plants have more intense flavor.In my blog I have a picture of oregano growing in a cold frame.They were originally planted in 4 inch pots. I never transplanted them out of the pots. When I pulled them from the garden, the roots were hanging out the bottom of the containers I put them on a large plastic lid, threw some dirt on the lid so the roots wouldn't freak out in the sun and kept the soil moist. If you have a garden center nearby you can purchase some good potting soil and plant it in a container-any old pot as long as it has good drainage. You'll have to experiment with using fresh basil as opposed to dried herb in recipes. There's quite a difference.

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  6. I've got some, nice and fresh. It's good stuff and it's been growing on its own.

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  7. Yeah buy a bag of soil from Lowes/Home Depot. So Cal dirt only grows weeds!

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  8. I watched that movie few months ago and I loved it, nice blog by the way, +f

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  9. Nothing smells better than a fresh basil plant.

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  10. Just finished watch this movie ten minutes ago. :D

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  11. awesome hahah. i grew basil this summer in my house, but i used like... top soil, it worked really well and cost a dollar lol

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  12. If only a 12 year old Natalie Portman would knock on my door and ask me to keep her safe ;_;

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  13. have a green thumb. Growing your own food is great!

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  14. HERBS, like basil especially, do best when started in doors, in small containers (use an old egg carton 12 pack, put 3 seeds per egg hole) then transfer to the big pot when they are more mature, just use some kind of rooting liquid or something (I like VF11) to avoid shock.

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