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Other details: Average Water Needs; Water regularly; do not overwater
Soil pH requirements: 5.1 to 5.5 (strongly acidic) 5.6 to 6.0 (acidic) 6.1 to 6.5 (mildly acidic) 6.6 to 7.5 (neutral) 7.6 to 7.8 (mildly alkaline) 7.9 to 8.5 (alkaline)
On Aug 1, 2006, carminator1 from Pensacola, FL (Zone 8b) wrote:
Great basil, mine got huge. I love the flavor and aroma that it gives. I usually make my own salad dressings and always put a little chopped basil on it. Great on salads, cooked,etc...
On Jan 13, 2003, jkom51 from Oakland, CA (Zone 9b) wrote:
I grew several different basils in 2002 and the Bush Spicy Globe was far superior for fresh herb use to all the others. The Genovese-types are better for pesto-making, but the Bush Spicy Globe is the most popular in France. It has very small, tender leaves and (more importantly) soft stems, very like parsley. This makes it extremely useful for fresh salads, where the tough stems of other basil varieties are unpleasant. It has the same wonderful spicy fragrance. In addition, it grew for five months before finally starting to flower! It never needed pinching back and grew in a perfect round, bright green mound (potted to thwart snails/slugs). My husband is not a big salad eater, but he absolutely fell in love with heirloom tomato and fresh mozzarella salads, drizzled with some virgin olive oil, lemon pepper and a good handful of this basil atop. From one plant I was able to satisfy us (three salads a week for months) and also give half a dozen friends several generous sprigs each to try. They also loved it and plan to grow it in 2003 themselves! Highly recommended.
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