Unless you have some really big pots most basil that I have grown gets way too big to have any company. If you only want one or two of each variety I would thin out what you have and leave only a couple in each container. Whenever you have days warm enough with no frost danger I would put them outside to begin hardening off. I usually let mine get a good many true leaves and harden them off some before I pot them up to regular styrofoam coffee cups. I then keep them outside as much as possible until all danger of frost is past then set them out in the garden wherever I have room. They do like full sun so if you plant them in a shady area they tend to be small and stunted. Keep the flowering buds pinched off until you are ready to let it go to seed then when the seed pods dry up just strip them off and save the seed for next year.
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