Ecce Basil
Basil Plant II
Originally uploaded by Ms Bracken. Yesterday I re-potted our basil plant (shown here with a 7" single for scale), which I bought in Somerfield at some point in late 2005 and which has just become a bit too big for our windowsill. It's the only plant we have in the house and I am infeasibly proud of it; not only because that's a good innings for a supermarket basil plant, but also because I've taken what could be described as "care" of it only sporadically, sometimes failing to water it for weeks at a time.
It's at the bottom of our stairs now, which should have better light than the windowsill -so presumably it is going to go on to greater and better things. I also had to prune it somewhat to get it there, and dried what I'd removed for use in cooking. I'm only slightly ashamed to admit that I felt like I'd broken free of some vast herb-buying scam imposed on me by Western Capitalism.