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Frogleg wrote in message . ..
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:06:47 GMT, Tim Tyler wrote:

Frogleg wrote or quoted:
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 16:55:39 GMT, "Norma J. Briggs":

Basil, Chives and Dill would grow nicely indoors, will need nice light
though - [...]

Basil is the *last* thing I would try to grow indoors, much less in
this stated low-light situation.

Basil does like light - but otherwise is quite happy indoors.

?? Otherwise how? I have, just as an experiment, over-wintered a basil
plant in a bright indoor room. It survived. snip

What was the disagreement here?

Not a couple of
leaves of basil to flavor a small dish of red sauce, but bushes of
brilliant healthy leaves to make jars of pesto.

And when you are young and poor (hence living in a dingy/dimly lit
apartment) and you just want to grow something...you can make do with
a couple of leaves of basil to flavor red sauce.


If I had a solarium or even a bow-window with 6 hrs of sun a day, I
would try to grow many things indoors.

See note about being young and poor.

But herbs are almost all full
sun plants, which means 6+ hrs of direct sunlight per day, not 2hrs of
sun and enough light to read by for another 4.

They don't rock. My basil is not better than your outdoor version.
But it, like the tomatoes I grew last summer in the window, is better
than nothing. And if you divide the number of plants I was able to
grow out of one bag of soil-less mix on sale (I recycle glass jars for
pots), my basil cost me less than buying one set of the fresh stuff
from the supermarket ($3+ here in Denver). And that doesn't even
include the value I got out of having signs of life in a dingy, dark
apartment.