Basilika.
Finnish for basil. This one grew on my window last year and was replanted once more to a bigger pot, similar to the one in the left before getting eaten with pasta and tomato sauce. The both white plastic pots are self-watering pots, the water goes down a pipe to the reservoir in the bottom.
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Oh, I can almost smell it! Nothing smells as wonderful as fresh basil, smells like spice and magic.
Bazalka in Czech.
Thank you!
I love basil and it’s so easy to grow indoors. This year’s basil took one week from sowing to grow the first green shoots, as did the chives. The first lovage shoots popped up 9 days after sowing. Still waiting for the mint to germinate.
Charly:
That has a lovely sound to it!
Ice Swimmer:
That’s the one herb I’ve never had the slightest bit of luck with, just can’t get it to thrive.
Reading the title, I was expecting a church building.
Basilikum in German
Yes! Giliell, I thought the same!
Wow the leaves are just glowing -- now I am longing to make pesto.
Caine @ 4
That’s strange. While a good proportion of lovage seeds can be duds, my experience is that the ones that start growing, will grow well and be hardy, though I’ve killed some with overwatering. Maybe there’s some critter, microbe of fungus that will attack them there.
Basil has a fair amount of religious significance. Basil means royal, and Basilica means royal house.
At first, we planted the lovage in the small herb-bed beside the house.
In year two it grew to over six feet and was overwhelming the bed.
We moved it to the bottom of the garden, beside the rhubarb, where it usually gets to over eight feet tall.
It also took a couple of years to get the last of it out of the herb-bed. I think the deepest roots were about two feet deep.
I’m salivating.
Get me some tomatoes!
I’ve already got eggs handy; I’ll make pasta! Could someone put some water on the stove? Lets do this.
The deer ate my basil, right after they ate my cilantro.
I hope they burped to death.
Except they were probably too happy because they also ate my poppies.
Marcus, you can keep your coriander leaf, tastes like soap to me.
How does herb-fed venison taste?
Giliell @5
Me too! The Italian version of the same word, basilica, has been co-opted into English, but it is not common -- except that not far from where I grew up was a huge beautiful cathedral literally just called The Basilica. Observe!
Now that I think of it, I wonder if these terms have a common etymology at some point? Quick, someone light the Cartomancer symbol!
Abbeycadabra, um, see @ 8. ;)
In Finland the word basilica/basilika isn’t generally used about the churches here. The Turku Cathedral is one, but it’s the only medieval basilica here. Most medieval stone churches here are more like this.
Ice Swimmer your photography is gorgeous.
voyager, thank you!
Caine @17
Wait, so “Basil Fawlty” is actually a commentary on the ineffectiveness and injustice of monarchies?
Gadzooks!