Basil

Here is a wonderful variety of basils with a great range of scents and flavours. Many are very decorative with pretty coloured flowers. All basil seeds enjoy hot, sunny weather so sowing should be delayed outside until early June when the nights are warm. All basils will grow well either outdoors, in pots in the greenhouse, in a polytunnel or even indoors in a kitchen garden on a window sill. Sometimes red varieties of basil will produce a small quantity of green types. We advise that these should be removed during th pricking out stage.