Garden Chef Serie - Basil

Description 

• Very attractively priced, our Garden Chef Serie comes into Basil, Chives and Parsley variety.
• Each kit is supplied with kitchen recipes to make the best of your kitchen herbs!

Step 1

Using a fork, mix the dehydrated soil with water into a container of your choice and then place the obtained soil into the Paris Garden supplied pot.

Step 2

You should disolve soil in twice their volume of water approximately.

Step 3

Then, empty 3/4 of the obtained soil into the supplied pot.

Step 4

Then, sow seeds spacing them 5mm to 1cm apart from one another.

Temperature

• An average indoor temperature 18 to 28 degrees Celsius is best.
• In winter put plants that are near windows into a warmer corner of the room at night.
• In summer mist the air and your plant to give more moisture & reduce temperature.
• Avoid exposing plants to too much direct strong sunlight.
• Do not place plants near direct source of heat or air conditioners.

Watering

• Keep soil moist but not over watered.
• Water more during hot days and less during cold days.

Light

• Bay windows provide a perfect lighting environment.
• Placing plants under white light bulbs for 2 to 3 hours a day during dark days can promote growing.
• Plants need to rest so do not leave them under light 24hrs a day.
• Rotate your plants at least once a week.

North Hemisphere 

• Basil is best sowned inside the house in March to September.
• Yet it can easily be grown rest of the year for sprouting.
• Best Stems then have to be replanted in a larger pot with extra soil in when getting too high.
• First Sprouts shall come 1 week after sowing.
• First Plants can be harvested gently with scissors for kitchen seasoning 60 days after sprouting / earlier if they are tall enough.
• Place in a warm sunny spot.
• Remove all the the small plants and replant only the largest one.
• Water with a water sprayer and keep the entire soil content moist daily.
• Do not over water.