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Locally adapted, ecologically responsible heirloom seeds ♡ Outaouais, QC
Genovese basil
Genovese basil
Ocimum basilicum
Annual, Open-Pollinated.
This is the basil most of you know from the grocery store or farmer's markets - it is our beloved Pesto basil. Genovese basil has lush almost succulent green leaves. It is an old Italian heirloom from the Genoa region.
Days to maturity: 70
approximately 100 seeds per pack.
Seed starting:
Start indoors 4-5 weeks before last frost (depends on your region). Basil loves heat - scatter seed on soil and lightly cover. Pot them up once they start to grow, and transplant outdoors when the soil has warmed. I love to mulch mine lightly with some good straw.
Companion plants: tomatoes !
We live and garden on ancestral territory of Algonquin Anishnaabeg People, forever territory of wild fauna & flora, cultivated lands of Irish and French settlers, and now beloved home of the junco seeds family (humans, chickens, dogs, sheep and cats)