A few more seeds

Broke out the seed heat mat one more time for the last seeds to start indoors. Sowed lots of basil. Basil is probably my favorite of all the herbs. We use it often in our cooking. There are tons of varieties available these days - probably too many. There are red and purple leaved, variegated leaf, big leaved and small leaved, lemon, lime, cinnamon, and licorice flavored, columnar and globe habit, ornamental flowering, even non-flowering tender "perennial" varieties. It's a little ridiculous. Northwest Washington weather is not the greatest for growing basil, so it is best grown as a tropical veggie, along with peppers and eggplant. The more uniquely colored and ornamental varieties are more finicky and a bit tougher to grow well here, so we stick with the basic Italian sweet basil and a few varieties of Thai basil.


- four 2" pots Siam Queen
- four 2" pots Thai Magic
- two 2" pots Red Holy Basil (Thai)
- six 2" pots Sweet Italian

I sowed about 6 seeds per pot, which will be thinned down to 3 or 4 after germination. Basil grows fine in a small clump, so each pot will go out in the garden that way.

Still too cold for tropicals. For the last few weeks we have been 1o degrees cooler during the day and 5 degrees cooler during the night than the usual average temperatures this time of year. I hope summer comes soon.