Seeds of mini Basil for pot and garden, with dense aroma and great taste

• Flowering: Delicate pink-violet or white flowers, blooming from June to September.

• Height: About 20 cm.

• Sunlight requirements:  Sow the seeds of mini Basil in sunny locations.

• Soil type: Drained rich humus soils.

• Cold hardiness: Low resistance.

• Longevity: An annual plant.

• Recommended place: In pots on the terrace or in the garden and yard.

• Optimal time for sowing: Sow mini Basil seeds for seedlings. indoors in January and February. Outdoors sow them late March. At home you can sow them all year round.

• Sowing depth: Up to 1 cm deep in the soil.

• Cultivation scheme: In rows with a distance of 40 to 50 centimeters between the rows and 25 to 40 centimeters between the plants.

• Period of germination: 14 to 21 days.

• Need of watering:  Regular without overwatering.

• Recommended fertilizers: Mineral or organic fertilizers for spices. When sowing the seeds, use fertilizers for rooting seeds and cuttings.

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You can find the specially selected seeds of mini Basil in the rich catalog of herbs and spices of Online Catalog Semenata.ORG. They are mainly for pot cultivation.

This amazing spice is from the genus of basil plants from the family of the Lamiales. Low growing basil belongs to the annual plants. It comes from the Asian and African continents. Later it was brought to Europe and all over the world.

The spice deserves its name as it grows only about 20 centimeters high. The stems are with branches with a four-edged shape. Its leaves grow opposite to one another with elongated petioles and oval shape. They are very tasty and extremely aromatic. Mini Basil has a number of useful properties, which makes it highly valued in the culinary world in our country and around the world.

Basil has a lot of essential oils such as methylchavicols, linalools, eugenols, organic acid, saponin, tannin, flavonoid, vitamins C and B. It is believed that if you put a stem of the herb in your pocket it is an omen for profit or loyalty. In ancient Rome  Basil was given as a sign of affection. In India its essential oils were used in various religious rituals.

Mini Basil blooms from June to September. It has abundant small pink-violet or white flowers, as you can see in the data from the catalog of herbs and spices of Online Catalog Semenata.ORG.

These premium seeds of Basil germinate at 13 to 14 degrees Celsius. The plant itself does not have a high resistance to cold, so it grows best at temperatures of 21 - 25 degrees Celsius.

Mini Basil likes sunny and warm places on the terrace, in the yard or in the garden, where the soil is  rich and well drained and with high content of humus. Water it regularly without over-watering or drying. Fertilize with mineral or organic fertilizers.

You can harvest when flowering begins in June or in October. If you take good care of the mini Basil you can harvest from 1.5 to 2 tons per decar. Let the harvested leaves dry well in airy, shady and dry places. When the leaves are dry, clean them from the stems and put them away in storage.

Cultivate the spice in rows, leaving 40 to 50 centimeters between them and 25 to 40 centimeters between the plants in one row. 

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