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Organic Basil Mix

Name: Organic Basil Mix
Brand: Les jardins de l'écoumène
SKU: ECOU-SEMENCES
Price: 4.49 CAD
Availability: InStock

Latin name Ocimum basilicum spp.

Quantity per packet Approximately 175 seeds

Product information

Product
identification

Latin nameOcimum basilicum spp.

FamilyLamiaceae

TypeHerb

CycleAnnual

Quantity per packApproximately 175 seeds

Code produitJAREC-0014

Product
description

Organic basil blend is an invitation to transform your garden into a true palette of fragrances, colors, and flavors. This blend brings together four complementary varieties—holy, Genovese, purple Opal, and Thai—which together create a living picture as beautiful as it is useful in the vegetable patch. By cultivating it, you discover over the weeks a diversity of foliage, aromas, and silhouettes that enriches both your harvests and the pleasure of watching plants evolve. The delicate flowers of these basils attract pollinators, bringing valuable activity around summer crops and contributing to the garden's balance. Highly appreciated in cooking, this blend allows you to go from a classic pesto to infusions, salads, stir-fries, or fragrant Asian-inspired dishes, depending on your inspiration. Easy to grow in full sun in light, well-drained soil, these basils are also very suitable for pot cultivation, close to the house. Their rapid growth and generous harvest make them a stimulating choice for curious gardeners and herb enthusiasts alike. It is an abundant, sensory, and characterful crop, making each harvest a small discovery.

Sowing
guide

Sowing periodMarch to June

Sowing depth0.5 cm (0.2 in)

Germination temperature20 to 25 °C (68 to 77 °F)

Germination time7 to 14 days

Soil
and care

ExposureSun

Soil

Rich and well-drained

Watering

Regular

Container
growing

true

Bloom,
harvest
and garden

Garden use

Cooking, pesto, tea, container growing, pollinators

Bloom period

July to September

Harvest

65 days after sowing

Size
and facts

Height60 cm (24 in)

Spread30 to 40 cm (12 to 16 in.)

Planting
partners

Good companions

Tomatoes, peppers, eggplants

Avoid planting with

Rue, fennel

The availability of our seeds varies depending on seasonal availability, production schedules and supplier inventory. Certain varieties may only be offered for a limited time based on their natural growth cycle, sowing period or available stock. These product pages are designed to help and inspire gardeners in choosing the right seeds for vegetable gardens, flower beds, pollinator gardens, container growing, naturalization projects and sustainable outdoor spaces.