Those are great basils. It’s way cheaper to grow basil from seed than it is to buy it. Some herbs are better bought, lemongrass, tarragon, and mints for example. Some are devlishly easy to start from seed. Basil is one of those. You might want to start 3 or 4 divots and do that every week or two as it will eventually bolt. This way you’ll have a fresh supply continuously. If you don’t let it bolt at the same time you can save seeds from each kind.
OK, guess I will grow the two basils and buy the rest of the ones I have on a list somewhere, have to find that list.
I have opened a file card box just now with seed packets from 2011 in there. My husband ordered these as he was going to grow something besides tomatoes. He was the tomato man and I was not anything in that garden. He never planted this seed as the cancer prevented that and he died that summer in August and I hadn’t opened that box until today.
In the box is a seed planter that is a six inch or so piece of metal with a crease down the middle in which to put the seed and let it drop into the soil.
There was two packages of Wild Galapagos Tomato seed which I know now will not grow here plus Alpine wild strawberry seeds and they won’t grow here, either, so I dumped those seed packets.
Are you aware, in your experience, of any of these seeds as to whether they are worth planting (I have a lot of seed to grow):
Oak Leaf Lettuce
Cucumber SMR-58 (Everbearing)
Matt’s Wild Cherry Red Tomato