It’s quick and easy to harvest basil seeds. The trick is to know when the seeds are ready. By letting your basil seeds go to flower and knowing when and how to harvest, you’ll never have to buy basil again!
VIDEO: How to Save Basil Seeds
It’s quick and easy to harvest basil seeds. The trick is to know when the seeds are ready. By letting your basil seeds go to flower and knowing when and how to harvest, you’ll never have to buy basil again!
Thank you Jill. 🙂
thanks jill…never thought to sprinkle them around my tomato plants.
Thank you.
i grow sweet, summerlong and purple basils. the two green varieties must be seeded in (or done in the greenhouse and transplanted) every year; the purple takes care of itself and is invasive if let go. we get thousands if volunteers every year and pluck like mad to control them. good addition to compost bins all the way to seed – but never after or any with flowers. if you have a dedicated herb garden, plant purple basil once and have it forever. it’s great in any italian sauce, along with green varieties. dried and crumbled on pizza or cooked in your spaghetti sauce are my favorites…
Thank you so much Hun….. you're so CUTE…….
Hi Jill! Your basil plants are big and strong. What's the kind of basil did you plant? From a brief look at the leaves, I would say it's Italian, Genovese. Thank you!
purchase a small blender with dull knives. Put basil seeds in blender, knocks seeds out fast. Easiest way for home gardener to harvest basil seeds. Nice video
Can you just plant the seeds indoors for the winter?
Thank you for the tips. I didnt know whether to let them all dry out, or whether they dry ones would start to drop before the green part was ready.
Appreciate the tip on the tomato plants. I like the whole idea of combined growing.
Will just one of those tiny black seeds grow an entire plant? I’m the only basil lover in the family so I don’t need dozens of plants each year.
Separate seeds from spent flower heads with blender or shake in bag. Strain & blow chaff away.
Cover self polilnating plants, like basil, with small hole mesh bag to reduce cross polination & bug infestation & shake plant to help pollination. Pass the word.
Thank you Ms. Jill
I cut the green ones off before coming here and seeing you were supposed to wait for them to die. Can I wait for the ones I clipped to die?
Thanks Jill
Thank you!! Do you pull old basil and start over with seeds or does the basil come back?
Thanks, great clip – well done!
Its not so bloody easy, im standing here with colander and seeds in their ironclad gage. Colander is full of leaves, leave dust and seeds. Only teeny tiny seeds fell thru. And i have alot of the seeds i need to get to
1:35 they are not that tiny… I think they are pretty average. And they seem to have a great personality too
Thanks for this because I didn't even know how you could get seeds from basil.
Why sprinkle them around your basil plants?
Super helpful! I cut some of my basil flowers too early and then decided to look it up. This is EXACTLY the information I needed and luckily I have plenty more basil in the garden I can let go to seed before I harvest 🙂
I grew holy basil from seed and it just took off like a rocket ship. It loved the sunny Southern California weather