{"id":2685,"date":"2021-07-31T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bio-balkon.de\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2023-10-15T07:39:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T05:39:55","slug":"basil-bush-on-the-balcony-attracts-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bio-balkon.de\/en\/strauch-basilikum-auf-dem-balkon-zieht-die-bienen-an\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrub basil on the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny attracts bees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some peo\u00adp\u00adle have bush basil on their bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny or in the flower bed every year. It also tas\u00adtes real\u00adly deli\u00adcious. Over\u00adwin\u00adte\u00adring is dif\u00adfi\u00adcult, as shrub basil is not frost-har\u00addy. Win\u00adtering it indoors or in a cool hall\u00adway can work. Place the shrub basil in a bright, cool win\u00addow and let it over\u00adwin\u00adter the\u00adre. Put it out again in spring after the Ice Saints, it will flower again and delight you and the bees! It also tas\u00adtes deli\u00adcious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pho\u00adto: Mela\u00adnie Schel\u00adlack from The green net\u00adwork<\/a> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

You can the\u00adr\u00ade\u00adfo\u00adre try to keep the mother plant in a bright, frost-free place (10 to 15 degrees, even coo\u00adler is bet\u00adter, but frost-free) over the win\u00adter. If the con\u00addi\u00adti\u00adons are not ide\u00adal, white\u00adf\u00adlies, spi\u00adder mites and the like can appear and gain the upper hand. To be on the safe side, you can cut cut\u00adtings and over\u00adwin\u00adter them indoors in a cool, bright bed\u00adroom. If the lar\u00adge plant does not make it .\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to cut cut\u00adtings: Cut young, healt\u00adhy and non-woo\u00addy shoots wit\u00adhout flower buds that are approx. 8 \u2014 10 cm long. If all the bran\u00adches have flowe\u00adring shoots, then cut the bran\u00adches appro\u00adpria\u00adte\u00adly so that the ener\u00adgy goes into root for\u00adma\u00adti\u00adon first. Flower shoots may emer\u00adge from the leaf axils. They will pro\u00adba\u00adb\u00adly get roots any\u00adway! Feel free to remo\u00adve a few lea\u00adves to redu\u00adce eva\u00adpo\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon. The\u00adse will root after a short time in the glass of water. Alter\u00adna\u00adtively, you can put the cut\u00adtings in pot\u00adting com\u00adpost and grow them in the soil straight away. This vari\u00adant can also work. Always keep the plant sub\u00adstra\u00adte slight\u00adly moist, but not too wet. A pla\u00ads\u00adtic bag over the plant con\u00adtai\u00adner impro\u00adves the cli\u00adma\u00adte for roo\u00adting, but is not abso\u00adlut\u00ade\u00adly neces\u00adsa\u00adry. Ven\u00adti\u00adla\u00adte regu\u00adlar\u00adly to pre\u00advent mold growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Shrub
Pho\u00adto Bea\u00adtrix Tamm (also the gre\u00adat cover pho\u00adto): In the pho\u00adto the basil was still young and small, later it grew much wider and tal\u00adler than the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny rai\u00adling, I cut out withe\u00adred shoots from time to time so that new shoots could grow bet\u00adter. Next year it will go into a cor\u00adner with more space.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The expe\u00adri\u00aden\u00adced gar\u00adde\u00adner from the Face\u00adbook group for the Orga\u00adnic Bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny Con\u00adgress<\/a> raved about her shrub basil: \u201cMine has actual\u00adly grown a meter tall from the edge of the pot, I\u2019ve had to cut it back a few times in width! Next year the plant will go into a cor\u00adner and can grow out over the edge of the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny. She sent me cut\u00adtings of the bush basil by post. Well packed in a wet cloth, wrap\u00adped in a bag. The stur\u00addy cut\u00adtings, which were cut just 14 days ago, have put down gre\u00adat roots. They will go into the ground, hop\u00adeful\u00adly sur\u00advi\u00adve the win\u00adter and can then go out onto the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny in the spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Bush<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I am now wri\u00adting this artic\u00adle about bush basil out of the joy of the\u00adse cut\u00adtings. Hop\u00adeful\u00adly it will enchant rea\u00adders who will then be hap\u00adpy to take bush basil onto their bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny and give cut\u00adtings to other bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny owners as gifts! Con\u00adta\u00adgi\u00adon of the best kind! It all star\u00adted when the expe\u00adri\u00aden\u00adced gar\u00adde\u00adner offe\u00adred to send me cut\u00adtings. It gets big\u00adger and big\u00adger. Like the small cut\u00adtings from the bush basil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Final argu\u00adments: Unli\u00adke almost any other plant, the flowe\u00adring peri\u00adod extends from the end of May until the first frost in late fall. This means that they pro\u00advi\u00adde nec\u00adtar and pol\u00adlen over a very long peri\u00adod. We always see wild bees, bum\u00adble\u00adbees and but\u00adter\u00adflies on them. The beau\u00adtiful, often deep dark lea\u00adves of the various shrub basil varie\u00adties are beau\u00adtiful. It tole\u00adra\u00adtes drought well, but can also cope with the oppo\u00adsi\u00adte and is abso\u00adlut\u00ade\u00adly bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny box tole\u00adrant, alt\u00adhough it will grow more spraw\u00adling in lar\u00adger plan\u00adters. The flowers can be used just like the lea\u00adves; you can sim\u00adply strip them from the panic\u00adles and don\u2019t even have to chop them up. When dried, the flowers retain their aro\u00adma, which can be saved for the win\u00adter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the mean\u00adti\u00adme, two plants are even thri\u00adving on the win\u00addows\u00adill on the east side in a 60 cm long bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny box with a water reser\u00advoir. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

You can buy orga\u00adnic shrub basil online here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gaiss\u00admay\u00ader peren\u00adni\u00adal nur\u00adsery<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kr\u00e4u\u00adte\u00adrei Manu\u00adfak\u00adtur for greens and sweets<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But only put it out in spring, basil is not frost-har\u00addy. Shrub basil tole\u00adra\u00adtes tem\u00adpe\u00adra\u00adtures of up to 5\u00b0 C for short peri\u00adods when pro\u00adtec\u00adted. As always, lea\u00adve out\u00adside for as long as pos\u00adsi\u00adble and put out ear\u00adly in spring, careful\u00adly accli\u00adma\u00adti\u00adze to the sun and cut back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expe\u00adri\u00adence with over\u00adwin\u00adte\u00adring shrub basil via cut\u00adtings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Expe\u00adri\u00aden\u00adces of herb gar\u00adde\u00adner Caro\u00adlin Urban from the Urban herb gar\u00adden<\/a>: \u201cThe hand\u00adling of shrub basil is quite com\u00adpli\u00adca\u00adted and often not crow\u00adned with suc\u00adcess\u2026 Our expe\u00adri\u00adence is: cool (5\u201310\u00b0C) and as bright as pos\u00adsi\u00adble (in win\u00adter rather south). Plants should be as lar\u00adge as pos\u00adsi\u00adble with a pro\u00adper stem and lea\u00adves, but no flowers (har\u00adve\u00adst!). And then nur\u00adtu\u00adre and hope. In my expe\u00adri\u00adence, cut\u00adtings rare\u00adly make it in apart\u00adments. The stron\u00adger the plant, the more power it has to sprout again from the old wood. Papri\u00adka basil over\u00adwin\u00adters well and easi\u00adly. But it also tas\u00adtes quite spe\u00adcial\u2026\u201d So it work\u00aded for me again over the win\u00adter of 2022 with cut\u00adtings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Very posi\u00adti\u00adve feed\u00adback on the suc\u00adcess of pro\u00adpa\u00adga\u00adti\u00adon via cut\u00adtings from Mar\u00adtin Lell. Thank you for allo\u00adwing me to share the Novem\u00adber pic\u00adtu\u00adre of your giant bush basil, the cut\u00adtings and your expe\u00adri\u00aden\u00adces here. Very impres\u00adsi\u00adve!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

@Martin Lell: \u201cI cho\u00adse this pho\u00adto becau\u00adse you can see both the lar\u00adge bus\u00adhes on the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny and their 3 \u201cchild\u00adren\u201d on the win\u00addows\u00adill. It was taken in mid-Novem\u00adber 2020, I still have bees visi\u00adting when it\u2019s sun\u00adny at this time of year (but then only from honey bees). What I love about basil bus\u00adhes is that they con\u00adti\u00adnue to flower even when natu\u00adre is alre\u00ada\u00addy in hiber\u00adna\u00adti\u00adon. Unfort\u00adu\u00adna\u00adte\u00adly, the first frost puts an end to this and I feel very sor\u00adry for the honey\u00adbees that still come by on nice Decem\u00adber days and search in vain for the flowers.<\/em>\u201e<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI can ful\u00adly agree with Birgit\u2019s cut\u00adtings ins\u00adtruc\u00adtions, it actual\u00adly always works, you usual\u00adly have roots after just one week. It also works well to put the cut\u00adtings with the lea\u00adves remo\u00adved at the bot\u00adtom into coco\u00adnut pots (make a small hole in the midd\u00adle, put the cut\u00adtings in and then press the soil around them firm\u00adly) and then root them in a mini green\u00adhouse on the win\u00addows\u00adill (ven\u00adti\u00adla\u00adte once a day). This way you can easi\u00adly root 10 plants at once and you can obser\u00adve how the roots sprout from the pots. From then on, the new plants can be pla\u00adced in nor\u00admal pots on the win\u00addows\u00adill. As with all cut\u00adtings, howe\u00adver, you should keep them warm during roo\u00adting (around 20 degrees), other\u00adwi\u00adse it can take a long time at much col\u00adder tem\u00adpe\u00adra\u00adtures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New cut\u00adtings are also a good way to save the basil plants over the win\u00adter. I bought a red (pink in the heat) flowe\u00adring shrub basil \u201cAfri\u00adcan Blue\u201d in 2016 and have been making small (approx. 5 cm long cut\u00adtings from side shoots) from it every fall sin\u00adce then, which I over\u00adwin\u00adter. I usual\u00adly cut the cut\u00adtings in Octo\u00adber, at least befo\u00adre the first frost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I over\u00adwin\u00adter them in a south-facing win\u00addow wit\u00adhout arti\u00adfi\u00adci\u00adal light. The plants grow throug\u00adhout the win\u00adter (around Christ\u00admas, of cour\u00adse, not very much due to the lack of light), but by the begin\u00adning or midd\u00adle of May they are alre\u00ada\u00addy 60 \u2014 70 cm tall bus\u00adhes (if you tie up the lon\u00adgest bran\u00adches) and by the fall you have about 1 m x 1 m or even lar\u00adger bus\u00adhes on the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny (and of cour\u00adse it hums from May to Novem\u00adber and but\u00adter\u00adflies such as lady but\u00adter\u00adflies come to visit).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over\u00adwin\u00adte\u00adring also works in the same way for white-flowe\u00adring shrub basil, as well as for the \u201cWild Pur\u00adple\u201d varie\u00adty and R\u00fchlemann\u2019s Per\u00adsi\u00adan (spi\u00adce) basil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a good idea to over\u00adwin\u00adter the old shrubs, as has alre\u00ada\u00addy been sug\u00adgested. Indoors, the\u00adre is usual\u00adly a lack of space and, abo\u00adve all, the light that the lar\u00adge shrubs are used to from being on the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny. The\u00adre are always a few aphids on the bus\u00adhes, pos\u00adsi\u00adbly also white\u00adf\u00adlies or small cica\u00addas or leaf bugs, which then mul\u00adti\u00adply explo\u00adsi\u00adve\u00adly indoors in win\u00adter when it is hot, while the plants get worse and worse due to a lack of light. It can then easi\u00adly hap\u00adpen that the \u201cguests\u201d spread to the rest of the house\u00adplants. Howe\u00adver, the small cut\u00adtings can be easi\u00adly scree\u00adned or brief\u00adly washed and then only over\u00adwin\u00adter what you want to keep indoors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am very hap\u00adpy about my cut\u00adtings of bush basil. What expe\u00adri\u00aden\u00adces have you had?<\/h2>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shrub basil is a real bee magnet. It grows beau\u00adtiful\u00adly bran\u00adched and bus\u00adhy all by its\u00adelf and easi\u00adly rea\u00adches a height of one meter. Shrub basil smells and tas\u00adtes won\u00adderful and is swar\u00admed by bees and bum\u00adble\u00adbees all day long. It\u2019s a real sple\u00adndor to see ever\u00ady\u00adthing that comes to visit.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[479,361],"class_list":["post-2685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-naturerlebnis","tag-wildbienen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bio-balkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bio-balkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bio-balkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bio-balkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bio-balkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bio-balkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bio-balkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bio-balkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bio-balkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bio-balkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}