Matt and I decided we would take a stab at growing basil. We thought it would be easy but apparently basil is a little stubborn. Matt did his studying on the internet and was confident it was going to work. So we ventured to Lowes and purchased, a planter box, soil, and two small but healthy looking basil plants. The internet told Matt not to water the plants unless they were dry. So a couple days after we planted, he took out some filtered water and gave them a good bath. Mistake number 1, the next day the leaves had brown spots all over them, hmmm, that water probably had chlorine in it....oops! Mistake number 2, supposedly basil leaves do not like getting wet when watered...oops again! We thought that the plants were going to die but they hung in there and started some new growth. The brown polka dot leaves never bounced back and eventually died. We were excited about the new growth and tried to keep the plants healthy but the new leaves remained small and the stalk started turning brown. So we gave up.
We didn't get around to dumping out the planter box before we left for Iowa and when we returned home, one plant had some green growth on it! We decided that we should keep the plant around and see what happens. Its our new experiment! Is it going to survive? This is the plant today.
-A
2 comments:
Looks happy! Snip no more than one third of the leaves for your next basil recipe. If it thinks it's going to die, it will grow harder.
My basil did the same thing. It seems happiest when ignored...
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