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GROW, CHANGE, PRUNE, COOK

I TAKE it as a sign of my growing maturity that I seek out the gardening column in the weekend paper and know what time Gardening Australia ...



I TAKE it as a sign of my growing maturity that I seek out the gardening column in the weekend paper and know what time Gardening Australia is on television.

Of course, all the gardening books tell me this is the time to trim back the basil for a final flush that will last well into autumn.

While the job’s been done it’s left an inordinate amount of fresh basil wanting. I’ll be whipping up pots of basil pesto this week and well into the next. That’s OK, because it’s turning up in almost all our meals. I’m adding it to pizzas, stirring it into pasta bakes, spreading it on sandwiches, adding it to vegetable wraps and making marinades for the barbecue from it. In the meantime, the fresh leaves and fronds of set seed look pretty as a bouquet.

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