6 2009-10-11T15:54:22-07:00 false It's getting cold at night, in the 40s, and my backyard isn't getting a lot of sun. My basil was starting to look a bit sad, so I harvested most of it. There are one or two stems left for fresh eating, if it survives. I made more pesto and more basil logs. My total winter stash of basil is: 4 large basil logs, 10 packets of pesto. If I have to buy basil this winter, it will not be for lack of trying to preserve enough. When I moved these plants into my raised beds, I planted them out in 3 clumps. I planted one clump with about 2 cups of worm compost/castings from my worm bin. I never really noticed any difference between the three clumps -- they all grew well and gave me lots of tasty leaves. But today when I was removing the plants, I noticed that the one that got the worm poo had thick, strong woody stems, and that the other two had strong, but fleshy stems. In a bad storm, I'd bed on the worm poo plant to survive. The clumps were in different beds and had different light conditions, so I can't be sure the difference was due to the worm poo, but it is suggestive.b 8 false 69517 false false false Entry 2009-10-10T21:00:00-07:00 DMY Public 2009-10-11T15:54:22-07:00 1713 60 F