Basil Red Rubin has wonderfully aromatic dark red-purple leaves with pink flowers: looks stunning and tastes delicious. For colour in salads as well as adding flavour to casseroles, roast meat and fish. Annual
Price for 50 seeds.
SOW: In pots or plug trays (avoid using seed trays) in spring. Use bottom heat or wait until mid-spring, water well early in the day. Transplant the seedlings when large enough & after frost risk has passed.
GROW: It is very successful in pots.
Spring – sow them.
Summer – pinch out to prevent flowering and harvest leaves
Autumn – bring a pot into the house, dig up old plants from the garden and prepare for next year.