Re: Harvesting Basil

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• Subject: Re: Harvesting Basil
• From: E* S* <e*@SIRIUS.COM>
• Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 23:48:44 -0700

According to an article in Organic Gardening (either that or a magazine
all about herbs), you will get the most leaves if, when you harvest you
harvest way back.

I.e. when a flower starts to appear follow the stalk it is on to the
furthest unbranched node (I'm not describing this too well. You will
notice 'minor' leaves forming where big leaves are. Each of these little
sets of leaves can start a stalk.)

I hope that made sense. They said that you get almost twice the harvest
(by weight) as if you just pinch 'shallowly.'

--Edward

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