Herbs: Help - mint or basil?!, 0 by gmun

gmun wrote:
Critterologist, thanks that is very kind, sadly I will not be there.

I am feeling rather foolish and think I may have mixed up my labelling! I suppose I won't be the first or last to do this...!!

I'm not exactly sure, but I did the seed test you suggested on a few "mint" seeds and also on a basil seed for comparison. As you said, the basil seed went kind of gelatinous but the others didn't. They are very tiny seeds, almost poppy size. I have more "basil" than "mint-I-think-is- basil" so today I inspected the "basil" very carefully. It is smaller and growing slower, but the largest leaves look as if they might be getting fuzzy so I'm thinking the basil might be mint!!


Here is a photo. What do you think?

Sorry for the really dumb questions - this is my first year growing stuff!! Thank you so much for your help - the seed experiment has proved to be very useful!!