By accident, I have a beautiful indoor Basil plant.

[Paper Roses]

Since my yard is so small, I plant only a few things and share other space with a neighbor.

This year I had tomatoes in pots and 3 Basil plants. The flat was 6 so I gave the other 3 away.

The season has ended and I picked and dried almost all the basil I left one shoot on one plant, pulled it up and plunked it in a glass jar on my window sill. I wanted fresh basil for the following week and hoped it would survive. It not only survived, it looks better than it did outside. No spots on the leaves, no funny nibble marks either. I don't even know what chews on basil but I end up throwing a lot of the leaves away because of it.

If this thing keeps looking like this, I'll have basil until at least Christmas.

[beac]

1. I cut a bunch of my Thai basil last week and put the cuttings in water.

so far, so good. Basil has a strong will to live. You can just stick a cutting in the ground and it will grow roots. Like, you, I'm hoping my cuttings will give me a few more weeks of home-grown deliciousness. :)

[Sentath]

2. Mine isn't by accident

And its coming up on 2 years old this spring ( :

Getting a bit leggy, time to cut it off again.

[beac]

3. Wow, that's one old basil!

Anything special you've done to keep it going?

[Sentath]

4. Nope

It lives in the window at work and gets the dregs of my tea when I remember to give it that much fertilizer.

ETA: When it gets a bit warmer and brighter I'll likely do what I did last year and cut it short, like a rose bush in miniature.

[beac]

5. Have you contacted Guinness?

Your Methusebasil might be a record holder! ;)

Wish I had a reliably sunny window to keep one going like that. I'm sure that my old (1800's) house was designed to keep it as cool as possible in the hot months b/c no one window gets more than a couple of hours of direct sun a day, most a lot less. The sunniest window is right next to the stove with no space for a shelf and the sill is already claimed by the cat.

Oh well, I've got an uber-sunny garden, so I'll just have to be content with my summer crop. :)