How to Prune Basil for Bigger, Bushier Growth
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How to Prune Basil for Bigger, Bushier Growth
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One of the secrets to producing big, bushy basil plants is trimming. Many gardeners are shy about harvesting from their herbs. They don’t want to cut them back in case it damages the plants or reduces yield. 🌱🌱 Eventually most basil plants produce flowers. The flowers are very attractive to bees but basil plants that are allowed to flower slow down their vegetative growth. That means fewer leaves. I know, I know, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to remove part of a plant to make it grow, but tru
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Want big, beautiful basil harvests this summer? Start here. The secret? Prune early. When your basil is about 6" tall, snip the main stem just above the second set of leaves. That one simple cut encourages two new stems to grow. Keep pruning as it grows, and you’ll be harvesting armfuls of fragrant basil before you know it. Eventually, you can let it bloom for the pollinators—or keep pinching to extend your harvest even longer. 🌿 Want my step-by-step basil growing guide? Comment BASIL and I’ll
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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
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