How to Harvest Your Own Basil Seeds

Are you pruning your basil plants? Pruning helps the plant to bush out more, creating fuller plants of more basil! If you’ve never tried this before I’ll show you how to prune them for getting maximum yeilds. #basil #basilplants #pruning #pruningbasil #herbs #growingbasil #garden #gardening #gardeninghowto #gardeningtips #grow #growfood #backyardgardening | Lil Urban Farm

How to prune basil plants, which allows for a bushier growth habit and stops them from going to seed early, essentially ending the plant’s lifecycle.#basil #basilplants #herbs #pruningbasil #garden #gardens #gardening #gardeners #gardenersofinstagram #containergardens #containergardening #urbanfarm #urbanfarming #urbanfarmrevolution #grow #growfood #growingbasil | Lil Urban Farm

So, what happens if you don’t prune your basil? First you likely end up with a tall leggy basil plant that produce very little leaves. Then the plant will go to flower and the leaves will start to taste bitter as it focuses its energy on producing flowers and seeds. Pinching or cutting back basil plants regularly encourages full, bushy plants and better tasting leaves. Cut back seedlings when they’re at least 6-8 inches tall always trim just above two leaf nodes, where the stem and leaf meet. Ne