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Tomato planting tips

When you buy your tomato plant, break off the bottom leaves to the stem. Put the plant on it's side in the soil. Bury the roots AND the bottom of the stem under the soil. Where you broke off the bottom leaves, small root hairs will grow and make the plant have a stronger foundation as well as insure a great amount of nutrients to produce healthy tomatoes.

Perennial herbs

Perennial herbs are herbs that continues to grow year after year. Choose a hardy plant and make sure you check your growing zone to see if your herbs will last through the winter in your area.

Here's some popular perennials to grow:
Mint
Sage
Echinacea
Thyme
Lavender
Chives
Rosemary
Oregano

Detailed list of Perennials:
http://www.gardensablaze.com/Perennials/PerennialHerbs.htm

Planting, Pinching, & Harvesting basil

Pinch your basil so it won't flower where all the nutrients from the roots will go to.

Pinching off the top helps all the nutrients flow to the leaves so there will be much basil for you to enjoy!

Storing basil

You can store basil:
1) In a glass of water
2) In a paper towel/plastic baggie
3) Container in the fridge
4) Pulverize them with olive oil and then freeze in ice cube trays
5) Pick basil leaves and leave in paper bag to help dry basil (wicks moisture away)
6)  rolled loosely in suran wrap
7) put stalks in oil to get a nice basil oil
See video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbrbQ64-P7I

There are many other ways to store basil. Serve the web and you'll find creative ways to dry them, freeze them, and refrigerate them for your basil fetish.