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Uhh.. Not really fruit related, but we've been growing basil (as well as sage, lavender and a nasturtium) and it's doing so well. This is the first basil harvest and there's at least four different cultivars including sweet basil, purple basil, Greek and Thai basil!
Sorry for no fruit posts, I hope to get back to that soon.
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Apis mellifera on Ocimum basilicum / Western Honey Bee on Sweet Basil
Plant of the Day
Thursday 25 August 2022
An aromatic plant originating in the dry scrub in Africa and Asia Ocimum basilicum (sweet basil) thrives in the heat. Seeds are raised in a glasshouse or on a warm windowsill, and the plants moved outside in summer. There are many cultivars with different leaf shapes, colours and flavours.
Jill Raggett
This is a basil cultivar called ‘Spice Globe’ that I knew was supposed to be more compact, but I didn’t expect it to the level of “scented pom-pom”. He’s just a smelly green orb!
African Blue Basil on our windowsill. This plant is a sterile interspecific hybrid between an East African medicinal species called Camphor Basil and Dark Opal Basil, a culinary sweet basil variety bred at the University of Connecticut in the 1950s. Sweet basils, as a species, have been widely naturalized for millennia but likely originated in tropical Africa or Western Asia. According to @sfgate: “African Blue Basil was first seen in 1983 when Peter Borchard, owner of Companion Plants in Athens, Ohio, noticed it growing in the path between beds of the two presumed parents.” This plant can only be propagated by cuttings - it is infertile like many other interspecific hybrids, such as mules (donkey x horse) and male ligers (lion x tiger). I don’t totally understand the science (ok I’m being lazy) but interspecific hybrid sterility has to do with there being a mismatch of the number of chromosomes between the two parents, resulting in an “extra” chromosome in the offspring, which disrupts meiosis so that viable gametes (specifically sperm resulting from pollen and egg from ovules) will not be formed. Posting this stuff is how I learn it! I have heard that some of the reasons people like this variety is that it is perennial (but not frost tolerant, which is why it’s in my window), it makes good pesto, you don’t have to pinch back the flowers because it won’t go to seed, it has a bit more mildew resistance, it’s wildly popular with pollinators, and it is easily rooted from cuttings. Do you grow it? How do you use it? #africanbluebasil #interspecifichybrid #ocimum https://www.instagram.com/p/CHuHp94gIXo/?igshid=1mwp4ffqepq4n
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Ocimum plant and a little tenzo I’ll add on to later🍃🌱
59343.01 Ocimum basilicum by horticultural art https://flic.kr/p/PUjLyc
Found out that Spicy Globe Basil puts out enough humidity (the transpiration is very noticeable by just putting your hand in it) that it can support this butterwort without a cloche or any other means of cover.
