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- From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Growing your own basil
- Keywords: basil
- Message-ID: <182716@pyramid.pyramid.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 03:30:27 GMT
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- Reply-To: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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- Originator: daemon@sword.eng.pyramid.com
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- In article <brp6lg.egz@wang.com> anon@no.where (Anonymous) writes:
- >Does anyone have experiences growing their own basil plants?
- >The store-bought leaves are soft and dark green. My home
- >grown plants have leaves that are not as soft and not as dark and not as
- >fragrant as the store-bought (even though they were soft and fragrant
- >when I bought them from a nursery). They are planted in a planter
- >outside, in a sunny area, and I water them regurlarly.
-
- >What am I doing wrong?
-
- Hard to say....could be the specific fertilizer, soil, watering,
- etc.
-
- You may want to try pinching the growing tips of the plants,
- then as new branches become an inch or more long, pull the older
- leaves off (discard if not fragrant enough). Usually the second
- (or even third) set of leaves if you keep this up will become
- stronger and more fragrant.
-
- It seems to work with just about every bushy style fragrant
- plant I've tried....
-
- You also may want to try using considerably less light...put
- them in shade or even move them indoors [makes a great natural
- deodorizer for bachelor's digs...]
-