Key Points Pinch off basil flowers to keep the plant focused on growing flavorful, tender leaves.Flowering makes basil leaves ...

With the right love and care for a basil plant, it's not long before you have the main ingredients for delicious culinary recipes and a wonderfully bright addition to your herb garden. But trouble ...

Follow these expert basil plant care tips to grow this aromatic culinary herb indoors or outdoors this summer.

There are lots of reasons to plant basil in your garden. In addition to warding off bothersome flies, this flowering herb can draw bees that pollinate flowering vegetables such as zucchini. To help ...

Want a more flavorful and bountiful basil harvest? Companion plants are your key to unlocking the best in your basil. Here ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... One of the many pleasures and essences of the outdoor growing season is basil. What other edible herb breathes so much flavor and summer sunshine into a dish ...

At my condo, my garden is limited to two large containers where I usually grow tomatoes, but this year I’m using one to grow basil so I can make homemade pesto, which I love. Basil is a warm-weather ...

Getting basil to grow isn't difficult, but allowing it to thrive is another story. This gardener seems to have cracked the ...

Five things to do in the garden this week: Fruit. Although kiwi vines generally need a colder winter than Southern California’s in order to flower and fruit, the Fuzzy Jenny variety needs only 100 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Martina Cross / Getty Images Basil flowering takes energy from leaf production, causing leaves to become bitter and bad for ...