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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

Bulb
identification

Latin nameOcimum basilicum spp.

FamilyLamiaceae

CycleAnnual

Bulb typeHerb

Quantity per packApproximately 175 seeds

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.

Garden
placement

Where to plant Cooking, pesto, tea, container growing, pollinators

Planting
and care

ExposureSun

Planting periodMarch to June

Planting depth0.5 cm (0.2 in)

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

WateringRegular

Soil typeRich and well-drained

Container
growing

true

Bloom,
harvest
and garden

Bloom periodJuly to September

Harvest65 days after sowing

Companion plantsTomatoes, peppers, eggplants

Plants to avoidRue, fennel

Size
and growth

Height60 cm (24 in)

Spread30 to 40 cm (12 to 16 in.)

Rooting / establishment7 to 14 days

The availability of our bulbs, cloves, tubers, rhizomes, seeds and plants varies depending on arrivals, seasons, nursery production and supplier availability. Some varieties may only be available for a limited time, depending on their natural cycle, planting period or available stock. These product pages are designed to guide and inspire your plant choices for the garden, vegetable garden, landscaping, container growing or sustainable outdoor projects.