There once was an ugly duckling...

[hamster]

A neighbour very kindly gave me some basil seedlings. I transplanted them into a bigger pot as they got bigger, but one of them appears not to be basil. It's pointy, much bigger than the others and (most tellingly) does not smell like basil.

In fact, it smells (and looks, to my untrained eye) more like a tomato. Does this appear plausible to anyone else? (Click on photo for closer look.) Or is it something else entirely?

[MKG]

That, I would say, is definitely a tomato - no doubt a tomato called Basil.

[red]

yup - tomato...

[ocailleagh]

(Adds voice to the tomato chorus)
On the plus side, tomatoes and basil grow really well together, and taste great together too. All you need now is a buffalo for some mozzarella and you've got the makings of a great salad ;-p

[kathleen]

I have had tomatoes mysteriously pop up in the middle of my basil before! (I've had tomatoes pop up EVERYWHERE in fact...no idea where they come from?)

[MKG]

It's maybe a little known fact that both thrushes and blackbirds will eat tomatoes (not through the skin - you have to cut them first). We discovered this when we left an open bucket of veg. scraps outside ready to go to the compost heap and then wondered why all of the tomato bits had been thrown out of the bucket and spread all over the ground. If birds eat 'em, I leave it to your imagination how those seeds get spread around so liberally.

[hamster]

(Adds voice to the tomato chorus)
On the plus side, tomatoes and basil grow really well together, and taste great together too. All you need now is a buffalo for some mozzarella and you've got the makings of a great salad ;-p

*wonders if she could get a buffalo in her garden*

[Thurston Garden]

Uhuh def tomato. Prick it out and pot it on!

[hamster]

Uhuh def tomato. Prick it out and pot it on!

Going to. Probably a nice heirloom variety too (unlike mine).

Thanks guys!

[Millymollymandy]

Oh bloody hell. I do wish people would stop using Image Shack because I lose SS to a load of crap about cas inos or other rubbish. It happens every time and what I was looking at gets replaced by sites.

Bah humbug.

Anyway yes it's a tomato.

[hamster]

Oh, sorry M3. I had no idea it did that, it doesn't do that for me. Are there any similar sites that won't?

[Millymollymandy]

I dunno Hamster. It's probably only me as nobody else said anything so I wouldn't worry about it if I were you. I'm just having a grump.

[hamster]

Hehe, that's ok. I have Firefox's adblocker so I basically never see anything irritating or nasty so I'm not aware when sites are full of ca$ino-y rubbish and need to be told...

[Millymollymandy]

Sorry Hamster I've just discovered my pop up blocker wasn't on for this site and I've tried the photo again and no problems this time......

[Jobi1canobi]

Had a bt of a P$rty Poker moment there myself too - not to worry.

Lots of tomato and basil soup coming your way then!