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If I was starting over, here’s how I would start my new garden -

  1. Buy a medium sized galvanized bucket (around 2 feet wide-ish??) and at least 6 - 12 inches deep.

  2. Drill holes in the bottom for proper drainage.

  3. Fill the bucket with a mesh liner, then some cardboard or sticks and leaves, then potting soil, then organic compost, then a little more potting soil.

  4. Rebuy these seeds (they germinated and bloomed quickly!!) and I would buy a grocery store basil plant*.

  5. Follow a simple garden plan to place my seeds and plants.

  6. Keep the bucket in a sunny spot and water daily!

*When buying a grocery store basil plant, it is imperative to separate it into 3-4 mini basil plants and replant them with some space between them so that the roots have room to grow. See below for how to do this. Note - I put them in terracotta planters but ideally you would add them to to your herb bucket!

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GROCERY STORE BASIL PLANTING

!!! GROCERY STORE BASIL PLANTING

Here’s how I would replant a grocery store basil plant:

  1. Remove plant from plastic wrap and the pot that it comes in.

  2. Separate the plant into 4ish plants (be careful, but don’t worry about messing up the root system, they will be fine OR they would have died anyways!

  3. Fill an outdoor planter with drainage with new potting soil and place one or two of the basil plants in that. Fill around the plant with more soil.

  4. Continue until all the naked basils have a new home!

  5. Find the stem right above a leaf node and snip the top. The basil from the store is way too long and leggy, and won’t hold up very well in a small planter without a little trim.

  6. With all your new trimming, propagate! In a small glass or clear jar, place your trimmings in and wait for more roots to grow. Then you can repot the new basil!

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