Harvesting Persian Basil volunteers from a patio pot

We trimmed back a big Persian basil that’s been seasonally living in a giant pot on our patio. It lived in one of our beds and filled the whole thing. It was the tree of our herbs. She’s slimmed herself down in size over the last months, but not without dropping a number of its copious black seeds around itself and surrounding itself with a ring of little seedlings.

I’ve noticed as the angle of light has shifted into spring, it’s not getting the same amount of sun.

Today we gave the scraggly mother plant a spring haircut and used a spoon to transplant the pups into a seed tray. Heron helped me water them with a small measuring cup and they’re now in our little covered seed starting area facing west.