What is up everyone out there in gardening world?

It's Kevin here from Epic Gardening and today we're going to smack you upside the head

with some basal knowledge.

Now, I think a lot of people just grow the garden variety

basal, pun intended 100%.

But there are quite a few different types of basal

that I think are extremely underrated and must be grown

in your garden this year. I really think you should focus on these and there are a couple that are

my absolute absolute favorites. Now I'm not going to start with, absolute favorites.

Now I'm not going to start with my absolute favorite because I have a lot to say on that one, but

first of all, dark opal basil.

Back when I was growing micro-greens and selling them commercially, I wanted to offer dark

opal basil as one of my products to chefs, but the seeds were simply so expensive per pound,

I could not afford it I

legitimately could not afford it but smaller seed packs of them are quite

affordable and it's a beautiful dark basil that is in stark contrast to most of the light green or sort of for it not forest green but sort of like a lighter more limeish green color that we're used to with

basil so I would highly recommend that and on that same vein you should also

consider purple ruffles basil similar in color but the leaf structure and the leaf

texture is quite different as the name suggests quite a roughly look to it and

nice visual contrast as well as a delicious flavor so I would highly

highly recommend purple ruffles basil. Now next in the list is sort of a

rapid fire of the quote-unquote flavored basil varieties. So things like lemon

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