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Planting basil within 18 inches of your tomato plant, for example, improves the flavor of its fruit and repels many insect pests.

Outside are demonstration gardens lush with ayurvedic plants — holy basil (for fever, skin lesions); brahmi ( memory); ashoka trees (mental acuity), Indian gooseberry (an anti-oxidant).

He wrote of olive groves and orchards, the rocks and plants, basil and thyme.

You might learn, for example, how to plant Thai basil, available from Chia-Sin Farms of Pittstown ($2.50 for a four-pack of bedding plants).

Chelsea Garden's three Manhattan locations will special-order flats of lemon, Thai and cinnamon basil for $5.99 a plant.

You'll find more than one dish that calls for pesto this week because the two basil plants I put in last spring are huge, yielding enough fresh basil for a winter's supply of pesto.

In a sunny corner I could plant a salad garden -- so I could just run down the stairs and get fresh basil for dinner.

Substitute basil for the parsley.

4sprigs of basil for garnish.

Reserve the remaining basil for garnish.

Growing basil for pesto costs almost nothing.