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Article: It's now or never for basil lovers.(Daily Break)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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By Rob Kasper
The Baltimore Sun
Basil is a weather wimp, the first plant to swoon when the temperatures dip near freezing, if only for a few hours.
One day it is green, leafy and verdant, and the next it is black, woody and kaput. Cue the leaf pickers. As soon as there is a slight chill in the air, they start plucking basil leaves from the plants, turning them into a variety of dishes but mainly pesto.
One such leaf picker is cookbook writer Sara Engram, who recently harvested leaves from the four dozen plants of sweet basil that her husband, Jack Reilly, cultivated in their backyard.
"I don't recommend planting four dozen ...