Pacific Northwest Gardening: Basil blues, 1 by momlady

momlady wrote:
Last year I put out small starts at the beginning of June and got an excellent harvest, but partly it's because we had a warm summer.

One idea is to put it in a pot on the south side of the house - let the sun bounce off the house and help warm the pot. Of course, that doesn't help if we have a cool rainy June...

If you have room, you can start a lot of seeds and plant a WHOLE BUNCH of little basil starts. Then, even if each plant isn't very productive you still end up with lots. The picture shows a row of basil tucked along a row of tomatoes, to encourage each other along ;-). I had another row of basil a similar length planted elsewhere. The seeds were only a couple of bucks so the price was right. It's too late to do that for this year, though.