How To Prune Basil To Have Enormous Plants

“One of the tastiest treats from the garden has to be fresh pesto.

With this goal in mind I planted some basil in my garden a couple of years ago.

What a pretty little basil plant. I put it in my garden and watered it and weeded it and waited.

There wasn’t enough basil there to make a good spring roll let alone a cup of pesto.

I decided that there must be some secret to growing basil that I just wasn’t allowed to know because it sure didn’t work for me.

Then last year at the Baker’s Creek Spring Garden Show I met a lovely man selling gorgeous plants that let me in on THE SECRET…”

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Self Sufficient Backyard

In all that time an electric wire has never been connected to our house. We haven’t gotten or paid an electricity bill in over 40 years, but we have all the electricity we want. We grow everything we need, here, in our small backyard. We also have a small medicinal garden for tough times. Read More Here...


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