Basil Seeds - Red Rubin

Red Rubin Basil Herb Garden Planting Seeds

Red Rubin Basil Growing Habits

Non-GMO Red Rubin Basil (Ocimum basilicum x purpurascens) plants grow 24-36" tall as compact bushes. Hybrids related to dark opal such as Red Rubin Basil Herbs, produce into late summer with vigorous growth, developing large magenta-colored leaves. Your sweet basil crop will reach ideal harvesting as their leaves grow 3", before they bloom. This Italian-type of basil with spicy clove notes will continue to provide a mildly sweet and pungent scent, producing an abundant crop until the first frost arrives. By early fall, your fresh Red Rubin Basil will grow pink flowers and begin to seed.

In general, basil is an ultimate hybrid with many different varieties. Basil is also ancient, which makes it a challenge for gardeners to pin down a single origin. This herb can be classified as either sweet or non-sweet. The popular types are considered sweet. For example, a cultivar that isn't sweet would be clove basil. Although Red Rubin Basil Herbs produce more of a spicy and zesty flavor, this type of red basil is considered sweet.

Non-Culinary Uses for Red Rubin Basil Herb Seed

As Red Rubin Basil has an especially pungent aroma with hints of clove and spice, this type of basil is often used for its aromatic properties as an adaptogen"a natural remedy to help reground the nervous system in order to relieve stress and anxiety. You can make a fresh sachet or simply take the magenta-colored fresh leaves for its scent, as your body can physically and emotionally respond to the medicinal contents of basil.

Culinary Uses for Red Rubin Basil Herb Seed

As an open-pollinated hybrid basil that provides large leaves with spice, this herb is often used in fresh tomato salads. This sweet basil type is also cooked for its zesty flavor and made into Italian vinegars or a pungent purple pesto.

Benefits of Red Rubin Basil Herb Seed

Red Rubin Basil blooms pink flowers with a zesty aroma, giving off spicy clove scents with mild sweetness. As this herb grows abundantly and up to 36" tall, this purple basil variety is most often grown as decoration or garden bed fillers. Red Rubin Basil plants can also repel mosquitoes throughout the summer.