Look how pretty!!!  This Genovese basil is about two feet tall, and half as wide.  There are about ten plants just like this one.  Did I tell you that I grew them from seed?  Of course I did.  ;)

 

We use it fresh on pizza, in flower arrangements, and on just about everything green:  salad, green beans, eggs, and so on.  The berries (the seeds before the get dry and hard) get tossed into fruit salads, you know, like melons and grapes and blueberries.

 

When the frost comes, I will pull them up, hang them upside down in the basement, and in a couple months we'll have dried basil for the winter and spring.  

 

For now, though, I really love to brush my hands along this row, and breath deeply:  That's called 'aromatherapy.'

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!