Week 1 - Day 1: Basil seeds harvest with Sushma

Buddha Garden Week 1

Monday 25th June 2012

Sushma and a Buddha Garden's bed of basil

The basil gives seeds and leaves. The seeds are in the flowers of the plant. The leaves are used in pesto making, as a medecine plant and in cooking in general. The seeds are used to plant the basil.

• How do we harvest the basil seeds ?

First, important detail : when the basil grew up, we find young and old pieces. The young ones are green, the old ones are brown and dry. Only the old ones have to be collected. The following pictures illustrate the harvesting :

1. Take the flowers by the bottom - 2. Grap until top
 
3. Appreciate - 4. Appreciate more


The next step is to separate the seeds from their brown envelope, in order to pack them.

• Seeds Packing :

Look at the seeds separated from the envelope (left), packed with the envelope (right & bottom)

• The breakfast :

After 2 hours and a half of planting, weeding, watering etc ... It's a great pleasure to see and eat that :

Thanks to Shivakaya the cook of Buddha Garden! So delicious tamil food !

Shivakaya says :

"The next page is talking about the spinach culture, and will also end with a nice face"