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Basil in Newfoundland
Blackens with cold nights. Keep in containers you can move, or a greenhouse.
demo estimate Guidance awaiting local review.
- Suitability for Newfoundland
- Heat-loving — needs strategy here
- Indoor seed start
- ~6 weeks before planting out
- Transplant / sowing
- ~3 weeks after typical last frost
- Frost tolerance
- Frost tender
- Days to harvest
- 30–60 days
- Sunlight
- Full sun (6+ hrs)
- Spacing
- 25 cm apart
- Wind
- Needs shelter and support
- Containers
- Works in containers
- Greenhouse
- Benefits greatly
Common problems here
- Cold damage
- Slow growth in cool weather
Varieties that make sense for a short season
- Compact container types
Harvest
Pinch tips often.
Will basil work in your garden?
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