Farming Friends & TopVeg have collaborated to create a How To Grow basil card.
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how to grow basil
The card may be downloaded, printed off and pinned to the potting shed wall as a useful reference on how to grow basil.
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We hope that children, as well as established vegetable gardeners, will find this useful, as basil is a herb to grow on the window sill which is useful in the kitchen.
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If you would like a pdf of the grow card for How to Grow basil,please complete the contact form asking for the grow card for basil and we will email it to you.
Basil is included in the How to Grow Culinary Herbs ebook written by TopVeg & Farming Friends which costs £3.
Click this link to buy a copy of the ebook How to Grow Culinary Herbs.
A campaign to promote British grown herbs is being launched by growers
to show the benefit & easiness of a homecooked meal containing fresh
herbs. Fresh herbs are easy to use and benefit health.
Basil, parsley and coriander are the UK’s three most popular herbs. They are all easy to grow in the garden.
Freezing herbs or drying herbs are options for using any surplus herbs in the garden.
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Now is the time to think about preserving any superfluous herbs in the
garden for use in the winter, when the fresh herbs are no longer
available. Dried herbs keep for years but are better if used within a year.
Frozen herbs do loose their colour, but some flavour is retained.
* *Woody herbs* such as rosemary, sage and thyme can be dry-frozen.
Place the leaves in a plastic freezer bag, squeeze the air out of
the bag, tie and freeze. Parsley can be frozen in this way. When
frozen, the bag can be rolled and squashed to ‘chop’ the parsley.
* *Soft herbs* like tarragon, chives, dill, fennel, lovage, parsley
& basil can be frozen in ice. Chop the leaves finely and pack into
ice-cube trays. Cover with water and freeze. When frozen, tip the
cubes into a plastic bag and store in the freezer, using a cube as
needed.
* *Basil* can be frozen as a puree. Wizz the basil in a blender with
a little olive oil. Freeze in ice-cube trays, then store the cubes
in a plastic bag in the freezer.
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