Feast Your Eyes On Our Basil

We have basil growing everywhere this year - in the herb garden, in a container outside, in the SFG bed next to the tomatoes, and even indoors in our grow box.  To my delight, just about every single plant is growing spectacularly well, despite some challenges with Japanese Beetles, leaf miners and other bugs I haven't identified.  In an effort to keep our garden as organic as possible, I haven't sprayed any insecticides.  I just pick off any bugs I see and discard the damaged leaves.

This container holds about 8-10 basil plants.  I'm sure they are crowded in there, but since I don't really need any more basil, I haven't attempted to transplant any out. 

This is our guinea pig basil - our first attempt at growing basil in our indoor grow box.  We transplanted a small plant (about 5-6 inches tall at the time) from the herb garden into this container about a month ago. It is now ginormous, and probably needs a bigger container. 

The size of some of the leaves from our indoor basil is just mind boggling.  It's exactly the same variety as the basil  growing outside, but the leaves seem to be at least 2-3 times larger.  I did read somewhere that basil grown in full sun tends to grow smaller leaves than basil grown in part-shade.  I don't know if one is necessarily better than the other, but we've got both, so it's all good.