Basil

Fresh herbs are one of the best things about a backyard garden.  The freshness, the flavors.   There are some that are hardy and last year after year, and then there is basil.

In this cool Pacific Northwest it is still too early for basil.  However it is one of my garden staples so I start it early under a cloche and was rewarded this year by a stream of sunny albeit cool days.  I would take the cloche off just to water and eventually start taking leaves.  Fresh basil…YUM.

Well yesterday it got up to 80 degrees and I didn’t remove the cloche and this morning when I went to water I sadly found my burned basil.

So the Cloche is off for today, to get some sun and air.  At the end of the day I will pull off all the burned leaves and cover it for overnight.

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Last weeks basil when I watered it

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This mornings sad burned basil

I am pretty sure I can salvage it but the good news is, since its just now getting to be time to plant basil and this was forced early anyway, if I can’t I will just start over.

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Posted by Valria on May 30th, 2009 under Garden Maintenance, Garden Planning


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