5 Tips to Keep Basil Growing All Summer PLUS How To Prune Basil

Looking for a bigger and longer Basil Harvest ? Need to know how to Prune it/ Our 5 Top Tips will set you your way to grow a Ton, (maybe be not an actual Ton) but a certainly a lot of Basil.

If you want to keep your basil producing lots of new growth, increase your harvest and keep it growing all through summer here are our top 5 tips.

Key Moments

00:00 How to keep Basil Growing
00:12 Top 5 Tips
00:28 Tip 1 - Pruning Young Plants
01:03 How to Harvest Basil the right way.
01:39 When to harvest Basil For flavour - Time of Day.
02:04 Tip 2 - Provide Shade in summer
02:24 Tip 3 - Maintain Moisture
02:35 Tip 4 Fertilizer
02:49 Tip 5 Mulch
03:06 Hey Pesto....

[PlantPerson]

Thanks! My first time growing basil and I wouldn’t have known to do that.

[dizzylizzy]

This is timely. I'd better go and pull out my old flowering basil. Hopefully, I'll get seeds from the flowers.

[manganese]

My basil plants always bolt too quickly. Thank you for these tips! I will apply them this season and see what happens. 😊

[susanlisson]

Will it stay alive through winter? I’m in Perth and just bought one of those pots from Woolies which contain many cuttings so I planted them all up into pots a couple of weeks ago.