savitrislove

My  love for gardening started with my success in growing Sweet Basil. That was 7 years ago, 2010. Below is my picture with my new tools and this feels just like yesterday... Seven years later, I am still at it.  I now grow my basil from cuttings and I have lost count of how many generations of basils I've had from my original seedlings. Whenever I prune my basil plants before thy bolt, I set aside seedlings into glass containers. Just put them in water and leave them at a sunny spot for 2 weeks and voila! they're ready to be planted. I've learned to freeze my basils. I don't use that much for pesto anyway. I first run them through a food processor and just put them in ice trays.  No water or oil needed.  Sometimes I run out of ice trays so I just keep them in plastic.  This has been proven helpful since there are times that I became busy and my garden was not at its best condition...yes my plants do die at some point.  But every time, I st...