Basil Sweet Seeds at YouGarden

It’s Spring time! You can find Basil Sweet Seeds on our partner’s website YouGarden to embellish your garden. You will find it in the category Fruit & Veg of Garden Orchid and you will be redirected to YouGarden if you add it to your cart.

Basil Sweet Seeds on category Fruit & Veg

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This 'Sweet' Basil is the classic, large-leaved variety that is most popularly used in cuisines all over the world. Native to tropical regions of central Africa and Southeast Asia, it is a tender, half-hardy annual when grown outdoors in Britain for summer cropping. Or it can be grown successfully indoors on your windowsill all through the year to ensure a continuous supply of fresh leaves for culinary use. A favourite herb particularly of Italian cooking, its sweet, aromatic leaves are a characteristic ingredient for many dishes from salads and garnishes to soups, casseroles, ragu, pizza, and pasta dishes – and superb for making fresh pesto. The flavour comes from the intense essential oils in the glossy green leaves that are at their best when eaten raw or added to hot dishes at the last minute. Growing your own 'Sweet' Basil from seed, whether indoors or outdoors, will reward you with neat, bushy and vigorous plants that can be cut just when you need a fresh bunch for your cooking – a much better solution than those frustrating supermarket pot herbs that barely last 2-3 weeks and are reluctant to grow back when cut. Sow all year round indoors into pots for your windowsill or for transplanting outdoors from May to July. Or sow outdoors from May to June; they will do best in pots or containers, but can be sown directly into a well-prepared bed or border. All they require is a sunny but sheltered position, in fertile, moist but well-drained soil or compost, then regular cutting to encourage new growth. Supplied as a packet of 450 (approx.) seeds ready to plant indoors or outdoors in their growing position. Mature plants can reach 30cm (12in) height and spread. Harvest indoors all year round or throughout the summer when grown outdoors.

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We firmly believe that Gardening is for Everyone! That’s right, you do not even need a garden to get growing. Many of our plants can be grown on balconies, small patios and decking, so you can catch the growing bug, and grow your own freshest fruit and vegetables too.We speak in plain English. Sometimes gardening can be a confusing maze of latin names and strange words and can be confusing or off-putting – we simplify all and remove all the jargon, and give you down to earth advice on what to grow – and how!We will show you how to get success from our products through our videos and care instructions. We have only chosen plants that are easy to grow and will give successful results with a minimum of experience. From the thousands of plants available, we have picked those that really work and perform. We have done the sifting and choosing for you, to bring you the best.We all have gardens of our own, and have grown many of the plants we sell, and can provide simple, easy to do, hints and tips for success. So confident are we our plants will perform, we back it up with our unique Lifetime Guarantee on all hardy plants.

So, even if you do not have a garden, or have never gardened before – we can help you get started on the road to delicious fresh fruit and veg, and gorgeous flower displays.