Having limited space, I love to save some room for herbs
in my garden. The local wildlife usually left herbs I planted alone.
However, this year the beasts included most of my herbs along with the rest of
my vegetables as their salad bar. For some reason, however, our deer,
ground hogs, rabbits, and whatever else that dines in my yard didn't care for
the basil I had planted. Then again, maybe they were just full before they
were able to find it. Nonetheless, I did get to harvest a lot of fresh
basil.
I didn't realize how much fresh basil I had picked until
washing the large assortment that I had cut. Having too much, I put a few
pieces in a jar of water on my kitchen window sill.
To my amazement, my basil took to the water before I knew
it and was rooting like crazy.
Believe it or not, I could pick basil from
this jar if I had wanted to. However, I am going to plant it and keep it
inside for fresh basil in the winter.
If you have a garden, I just wanted to let you know that
you can pick some and put in a jar and watch it grow for fresh homegrown basil in the winter.
