One of the best parts of gardening in a community is sharing harvests with everyone. Since we can’t really hand each other butternut squashes or cuttings of a giant bush of rosemary, we take pictures, measure weights, and post them over at Daphne’s Dandelions. Because she’s AWESOME.
This week, I only have one herb to report. My attempts to start some spring spinach didn’t quite go… well. Regardless, my Aerogarden produced some absolutely delicious Blue Spice Basil, seeds that I received for free from Wintersown.org.
Blue Spice Basil Harvest
Harvested: 1/4 oz of delicious
My basil plant was beginning to grow a bit too aggressively, outpacing the other plants in the Aeorgarden. So, I cut half of the stem off to harvest this quarter ounce, after doing some quick research to make sure I wasn’t going to end the plant’s life. I layered it on fresh Italian bread with thinly sliced baby Swiss cheese, pepperoni, salami, and turkey. I cracked some pepper on there, as well, onto a thin layer of Mayonnaise.
What a great sandwich. I meant to snap a picture, but the sandwich didn’t last long enough.
So far, the basil has been some of the weirdest seeds that I’ve seen sprout. The sequence is below:
The Blue Spice Basil seeds are tiny
Those black specs form translucent sacs
The blue spice basil's radicles begin to show
And the blue spice basil emerges
Growing quickly
Sticking above the growing medium
Taking over their world
The final, delicious blue spice basil product
