Too Much Basil is a Good Thing - Organic Herbs Greeneville, TN

Our sweet basil seeds took off. I pruned them dilligently and let them get bushy, I transplanted some that came up from last year where they didn't belong and they just grow and grow and grow. I haven't dealt with basil a lot and its been fun to make fresh pesto and bruchetta.

Now we are experimenting with various ways to dry the basil and freeze pesto. The above picture is only one of about four batches of the equivalent size since we began to harvest. In the back of the photo is a cool dark basil and recently I just found a couple plants that are lemon basil. Oh yeah, here's some updated photos of the herb/flower garden - its coming along nicely...

Zinnias and bottom picture is a huge fennel plant and big oregano and time plants...