if your

If your basil is starting to look like this, it's time for you to come to your basil plant. So even though these look like beautiful little flowers, this is actually the seed pods of your basil plant. And when these start putting off these, starting to cap off on your basil plant, you need to go in there and chop them off. Every single one of them. Not only will this stop the process of seeding, but it will also make your plants instead of it growing straight up, is gonna branch arms, which will give you more basil leaves. So this will prolong the life of your basil and it will also give you more bushy plants to give you more basil throughout the season. And if you were still here watching this, if you want to take this part, take this, throw it in some rooting hormone and put it in some soil, you can actually grow a brand new basil plant from every single cutting that you cut off. So not only does this help your original plant, but it can also give you new plants. Garden Tip: Leave seeds in the fall once temps cool for spring sowing.