annual herb
Genovese basil
Pinch often and keep warm.
Growing Profile
- Hardiness
- Zones 4a-11a
- Sun
- full
- Soil
- loam
- Water
- medium
- Goals
- Vegetables & herbs, Pollinators & wildlife
Harvest & Use
summer leaves
Useful search phrase: Genovese basil seeds.
Plant Relationships
Companion Medium
Basil fits the same sunny, warm, regularly watered bed as tomatoes and keeps harvest tasks clustered together.
Companion Medium
Peppers and eggplants share tomato-like growing conditions and pair cleanly with nearby flowering or aromatic companions in mixed beds.