Meet Bazil, our basil plant.

Over the past few months, Dan and I have been growing our own herbs including parsley, basil, dill and chives. This is fairly easy to do and creates a really fresh flavor to your sauces, meals and garnishes.
We start with seeds or seedlings and then transplant them to bigger pots when they're about 5 inches tall. They can grow right on your window sill indoors if you get enough sunlight. Of course, growing them outside is optimal, but if you can't, there's always grow lamps. We also use Daconil fungicide to keep the brown spots away, and Miracle-Gro, Organic Choice plant food. They also make a good garden soil for your pots.

Here's some baby basils we grew from seeds packets, courtesy of Geico (I know, didn't make any sense to me either when I got them in the mail but i'll take it!)

And once they get big enough, they will grow fairly large. Here's our pride and joy, Bazil the basil!
He needs a lot of water, almost daily, and plenty of sunshine. We keep him outside in full sunlight. Beautiful!