How to pick basil from plant

Harvesting basil, how to pick basil leaves, using it in recipes. Here's the technique to use for picking basil all season long.

Your beautiful new basil plant is calling your name. With large leaves and an aroma that has inspired your menu for the week, you can’t wait to start harvesting. But you are unsure how to pick basil leaves while ensuring your plant continues to thrive?

Discover how to harvest basil without killing it so you can enjoy an abundant basil harvest! Also learn easy ways to preserve your basil, including drying & freezing.

Learn how to trim basil and see the benefits of a regular trimming, pruning, and harvesting. All are a good way to encourage more full plant growth.

This little pruning trick will allow you to grow super-sized basil plants so you can enjoy all the pesto you've ever dreamed of.

Here's how to harvest fresh basil straight from the plant for delicious, aromatic flavour and still leave your plant healthy and productive.

Patrick Vernuccio on Instagram: "How do you harvest your Basil? 🌱 Here is how to harvest it correctly so that it regrows 💚 Harvesting your Basil leaf by leaf will prevent your Basil from regrowing new leaves…that’s a pity! Because out of one plant, if you cut correctly above a set of leaves, it will create two new stems growing lots of new leaves. Repeat the process over and over again and you will obtain a bushy Basil plant growing leaves on many new stems! So to harvest, always cut…

When growing basil, you have to make sure you pick it correctly for future harvests. Read on and learn how to pick basil so it grows back!

Did you recently start growing basil to use while cooking, or for certain herbal scents in your home? If so, it's important to understand the proper watering schedule so you don't over-water or under-water this picky plant. In this article, gardening expert Taylor Sievers examines a proper watering schedule for Basil.