Please Tell Me This Is Basil!!!!

I purchased a packet of seeds from the 99p store, and in it was 5 different herbs, dill, sage, basil, thyme and marjoram.

They were sown in an old butler sink, reusing soil, the dill and sage germinated fine, the marjoram has yet to appear, and the basil looks the same as thyme.

Here are some pictures of what I presume now are basil plants, I assume the thyme seeds were not labeled correctly.

The basil does not smell like basil yet? Should it, please tell me I have healthy crop of basil plants and am not just cultivating weeds!!!





Thanks for any help.

 

looks like it to me.

 

if you are just cultivating weeds! that would be realy funny, i did the same thing years ago, i did see the funny side, i used a cheep compost!! theres all sorts of bad things in it. :rotfl:

 

try rubbing the leaves with your fingers.

 

it as a liquarice kind of smell

 

I will try that later when I am able to but as far as looks go, it's ticking all the boxes, basil has quite a strong smell doesn't it, the sage is already quite pungent. and it is half the size of the basil?

At what point does basil start smelling?

 

they look a tad like pansies ????:cnfs:

 

not sure when it starts giving off strong aroma, but if you rub the leaves you can get the smell that way. mine are not as big as yours and dont smell strong unless i rub the leaves.

 

but im 100% sure that that is basil, ile put my life on it

 

it is, did the first 2 leaves have like a spade look to them.

 

Hope this helps http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=e...esult_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CEcQsAQwAw

 

like this
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgu...mage_result&resnum=1&ct=image&ved=0CBoQ9QEwAA

 

Thanks for ll your help guys

Jazzy

 

your welcome

 

My basil smells and tastes of basil .Its smaller than yours.