Grab your snips and learn how to prune basil to delay flowering and encourage more flavorful leaves to grow. Harvesting and ...

Choose from basil varieties, including sweet basil, Thai basil, and lemon basil ... in mind when harvesting basil leaves. First, start pruning leaves once your plant reaches 6 to 8 inches tall.

This trick is known as tip pruning, and it can be used not just on lemon basil, but on plenty of other herbs and garden plants as well. Tip pruning involves removing the small growing tips of each ...