I’ve made a note to myself so that next year I will plant much, much less cinnamon basil.

It did 10x better than our regular basil, perhaps because it ended up in a prime piece of real estate. It quickly overshadowed everything else in its bed; I found red peppers drying on the plant buried underneath them. The bees loved the beautiful purple flowers and the taste…well, it’s cinnamon basil alright.

I cut the basil off at the base of the stalk, rather than ripping it out. As many leaves as I could harvest are now drying on my countertop, I have a bowl full of seeds and the rest went into the compost. As an experiment, we also hung some of the stalks upside-down to dry, as well.

In it’s place I added some organic amendments to the raised bed and put in some (late) lettuce, spinach and broccoli seeds. None of that indoor seed starting stuff this time since it’s cool and sunny and the ground is staying moist between waterings.

These past few weeks have been crazy hectic, but all in good ways. We’ve been working on the RV and I’ve been working on something else. Right now we’re in a mad scramble to pack our things and leave for our annual camping trip with our local unschooling group. And then we’ll be able to relax while we eat, hike and play with friends all weekend!

Have a great weekend!