Description
Gourmet Chef Blend Basil
Popular and easy to grow annual that develops into an attractive bushy plant. Assorted sizes of aromatic leaves have a spicy, clover-like flavor popular in tomato dishes, soups, stews, spaghetti, fish, poultry, and salads. This variety is ideal for creating large batches of pesto. Grow indoors or out.
When and where to plant
Select a sunny location and sow seed as ground can be worked. For earlier crop start indoors. Transplant outdoors after all danger of frost is past. Cultivate soil and enrich with vegetable food. Firms soil over seed.
Care
Keep soil moist and clean.
Harvesting
Pinching back plants will encourage growth and the thinnings may be used in the kitchen. Harvest when flower buds start to appear. Continue to harvest up to the first frost.
- Seed Spacing: 1"
- Spacing Between Rows: 15-18"
- Days to Germination: 5-10
- Days to Maturity: 80-90
- Approx. 500 Seeds/Packet
