Purple Basil

[*crikey*mate*]

Has anyone ever used it to make Pesto?

Was it any good? Did you make any adjustments to your recipe?

[buzzlightyearsgirlfriend]

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@*crikey*mate* wrote:

I was thinking of using it purple though for the colour contrast. Thought it might look good on an amuse bouche platter or something, a quenelle of the green one, a purple one and egg plant caviar.

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OMG!

I was thinking of doing the exact same platter just the other day   

[imastawka]

 LOL on the bay tree

[*crikey*mate*]

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@imastawka wrote:

 crikey, my daughter bought me a bay tree 15 years ago.  It's still in the same pot.

 It is only about 60cms high, but has plenty of leaves. I have even grown more from

  cuttings for other people.

 If you keep it off the ground, it will not root and become a huge tree and by taking

 the leaves it gets bushier   : - )

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Ok, I'll get one of those too then, I saw it at the store, but bypassed it thinking of all the big Bay trees at moreton bay

How big a pot do you reckon? just to give me an idea of where i might put it.

[icyfroth]

I prefer green basil.

[*crikey*mate*]

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@nevillesdaughter wrote:

I planted a 6 inch high bay tree about 15 years ago and it's now about 8 metres high - friends cut off  quite big branches (and try to tell me they are helping with the pruning), to take home to hang up and dry.

As an aside, my first overseas trip was to Greece by myself  when I was 18, and somebody pointed out a beautiful avenue of giant, ancient trees and explained to me that they were bay trees. I remained polite and tried to sound impressed but in my head I was thinking "Big whoop". Oh callow youth.....

Marina.

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oh....

maybe not then!

When i first got married, i bought a green shrubby looking pot plant called slow growing shrub - good for bonsai, for an indoor plant. Eventually planted it in the garden, and about 10 years later uit was a massive tree! Turns out it was a fig tree FGS!

The roots went everywhere, into pipes, drains was a mess!

[*crikey*mate*]

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@icyfroth wrote:

I prefer green basil.

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because.......?

[*crikey*mate*]

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@buzzlightyearsgirlfriend wrote:

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@*crikey*mate* wrote:

I was thinking of using it purple though for the colour contrast. Thought it might look good on an amuse bouche platter or something, a quenelle of the green one, a purple one and egg plant caviar.

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OMG!

I was thinking of doing the exact same platter just the other day   

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Ah well, you snooze, you lose. According to She Ele's rules of Copyright, since i wrote it down first, i get dibs on it.

[imastawka]

Re bay tree -

I reckon the pot is about 30 - 40cm .  Just make sure it's not on the ground,

or it will send out a tap root and then you'll be in all sorts of strife.

 It has even survived no water over many a Melbourne summer of 40c too

 I love picking the fresh leaves.  Dried bay is just gross

[*crikey*mate*]

*looks disappointed*

I was envisaging it in my kitchen LOLOL

here's one I prepared earlier

and in this one, yes the Chillis now have their own pot, this was the first lot I bought last week.

Thought i might be able to pop the bay tree here instead of this little yellow number

[2106greencat]

Doesn't the soil fall out of that last one ??