I was away for 3 weeks and expected to find this basil dead as a doornail, but despite looking a little bedraggled, it is fine.
I pinched off a long stem to use as a cutting to make a new plant, and sliced the extra leaves up as topping for a tomato tart.
The tart was quite tasty and made me glad to have invested in one of those glass bottles with a lid that you pump to make cooking oil come out in a misty spray. I had actually put the tart in my Gourmia Robotic Cooker without remembering to top it with oil, but it was a simple matter to open the hinged lid and spray though the opening...no need to take the tart out to do that.
The bottom plants in my little AeroGarden are both begonias, at least in name. The red leafed one is a cutting from my neighbor's plant and it never stops producing those lovely pink flowers. The vibrant green plant is Swedish Begonia, that is to say, Plectranthus verticillatus. Usually these just live in glasses of water along the side of the planter, but I had an empty grow hole so I dropped a cutting into it and then went away, not quite expecting it to grow so profusely in my absence. Amazing what a little light and some liquid nutrients will do!
Plectranthus apparently does not come from Sweden, although it is kept as a houseplant there, nor is it an ivy or a begonia, but it is a lovely vine and edible, although not very tasty.