5 Tips How To Prune Basil AND Keep it Growing All Summer.

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....

[@PlantPerson58]

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

[@dizzylizzy7582]

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

[@johnnyAGardening]

If you want to collect seed, leave the flowers until the seed sets....(often they don't set seeds) Must try to do a video on that one....

[@Betty-d2w]

Thak you new at this😊

[@johnnyAGardening]

Thanks for watching, and good luck with you basil.

[@manganese333]

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

[@johnnyAGardening]

Thanks for watching. What is your climate zone, we may be able to be more specific.

[@susanlisson7066]

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.

[@johnnyAGardening]

If the temperature stays above 8°C it MAY stay alive however it will be slow and eventually die. In Perth it best from spring to summer into early autumn. Give it a try and keep it in the warmest sunniest spot over winter.

[@susanlisson7066]

@@johnnyAGardening Thank you. I’ll see how they go and will put some inside soon under grow lights for safekeeping. It’s been a really warm autumn here and we’re still having 28 degree days for the past couple of weeks.