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Old 25-06-2009, 10:44 AM posted to rec.gardens
Pat Kiewicz[_2_] Pat Kiewicz[_2_] is offline
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Default Harvertsing Basil

Paul M. Cook said:


My basil is growing like wildfre. Easy question, do you harvest just the
leaves or do you ct the stems?

I cut the stems to harvest, even though I will only be using the leaves.
Basil needs to be cut back hard, to delay it going to seed.

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