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The proprietary seeds were developed at the Israeli Agricultural Research Organization (ARO) by Nativ Dudai, PhD, professor and head of The Unit of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants. Dudai is considered a ...

Gardening expert Monty Don shared which jobs gardeners can do this weekend on the latest episode of Gardeners’ World. The lead host of the BBC series advised gardeners to sow basil, keep on top of ...

Sweet Genovese is great for pesto, purple basil is sweet, Thai basil is intense, British basil is hardy … This is a good month to grow your own It wasn’t the best spring for growing edible plants – at ...

Sow basil in soil beds or pots in the greenhouse, placing seeds individually into soil/compost at 4in (10cm) spacings. If all seeds germinate, remove half, leaving one plant to grow every 8in (20cm).

Fall is not the time to put cold-sensitive plants in the ground.

Gareth Austin, gardening expert with BBC Radio Foyle, answers your questions about growing veg. Sandra Morris from Pinkneys Green, Berkshire asks: I never managed to get any of the Dig In basil seeds ...

Start to plant your summer and autumn-flowering containers. Be creative, choosing an upward-growing central plant, a downward trailer, with a third plant to fill in between. For colour, choose a big, ...

AgriTech start-up Future Crops, is boosting output of a pure, high-yielding basil variety it successfully adapted for cultivation in the company’s primarily solar-powered 2,000m2 vertical farm. The ...