Finally got the basil in:
Okay, so I should have taken the picture before replacing the screen.
I would have done this earlier in the week except that I was a) sick, and, as a result of a, b) tired. And it was rather cool here last week.
Anyway, I only planted 6 plants this year and it seemed a bit sparse, so I checked last year’s blog posts (search=basil), and it looked like I crammed in more plants (which, given that they pretty much gave up the ghost by mid-summer, might have been too many*).
I’m thinkin’ that the nursery last year sold them in 4-packs (and I bought 2) and this year in six-packs, hence the six.
(I did have two 6-packs in hand at one point, but was dubious, so I finally read the little plastic info thingy the nursery sometimes includes in plants, and it said to *plant ’em 8″ apart. Yeah, 12 plants in a 16″ box woulda been too many.)
Anyway, the basil box is back. One of the few unreservedly good things about summer.
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