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    5 Basil Types You Should Try!

    Apr 07, 2020 3 minutes
    —Niki Jabbour

    Flip through any seed catalog and you’ll quickly notice there are a lot of different types of basil. Most of us are familiar with sweet basil, but what about Greek, purple, and lemon basils? Do they deserve a place in our gardens and kitchens? Definitely! They offer a wonderful range of flavors beyond that of sweet basil. Here are a few of my favorites.

    SWEET BASIL

    Ocimum basilicum

    Sweet, or Genovese, basil is the classic culinary basil that

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