In this video, I show you a giant All-Year-Round BASIL Plant That Lives For YEARS in a raised garden bed container. This variety of basil keeps growing and producing non-stop.
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Does this perennial basil go by any other name? I've had a Tai basil live for 2 years. Very hardy here in TX.
How do you make your pots ? Is there a vid to it ? Thx in advance from Austria
An absolute unit of a basil plant
This is my favourite type of basil it grows really fast tastes great my neighbours had a huge tree of it growing over my fence and I kept using a little here and there and would place a stem in a glass on the bench to keep fresh and on threw roots so I planted it and not even a year later it stands nearly six ft tall and about 4ft around and has been a staple in my kitchen ever since I found it it's extremely hardy loves a good trim and produces an absolute tone of foliage to use and smells great in the garden too
Lots of perennial basils are sterile hybrids, including the African Blue, and I suspect this one you're growing. They're very easy to propagate from tender cuttings – I usually do it in water.
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I only have sweet basil in my garden. Your basil is a shrub now lol
"Lets get into it" is the favorite saying in our house
Is this african blue basil?
I hope we sell this in Arizona, USA. We grow allot of stuff you grow in Australia.
I'm growing basil indoors (I think it's sweet basil) and I want to let one plant flower so I can collect seeds. I've only recently started growing herbs and such so I'm very new to it all. My question is do I need to hand pollinate the flowers to get seeds? I know I have to hand pollinate my tomato and sweet pepper plants but I don't know if I need to do that with herbs since they don't get fruits.
Love your videos Mark, from NZ. Thanks. Keep them rolling!
Mark, I made the horrible mistake of planting mint in one end of my garden. I am resting right now after forking up the twisted tangles of strong roots running into my chives. Mint has taken ownership of half my garden. I don’t mind. I want the other half mint free. Maybe, should I bury a barrier to block the roots?
Our Perennial Basil is now 12 years old and still going.
The bees must love you basil is one of the bees favourite.
Love basil in salad. Funny, I do not like aniseed (that licorice flavour), but love the zing that fresh annual basil gives a salad or tomato sandwich. I have had it come up from self sown seed.
Nice try
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Taking basil cuttings is so easy. I turned one plant into a dozen in less than a year. You just put a piece with 2-3 leaves and a decent stem in some water in a sunny window and wait. (A few days to a few weeks depending on the season) and then once a good root system forms you just plant it in a pot. (Or in the ground)
I just tried seeds for the first time and had a near 100% success rate. Which I was not anticipating and now I have
toomuch basil. If Basil was money id be Bezos.I love my perennial basil plant(s)! I bought a tiny one a year ago, and it grew like mad — so much so that I've propagated it through cuttings about 20 times now. Some of these little basils have thrived even in the most garbage soils in the most rock hard, depleted parts of my garden (and they have since conditioned the soil really beautifully and brought worms back to those parts). Amazing plant, and delicious to boot — I personally love the extra kick a pesto gets when made from perennial basil!
This man is an absolute garden mastermind. Love it!!!
This perennial variety certainly doesn't grow like Thai basil. I had a plant last year, that died off due to hard freeze. I've been finding baby plants everywhere. Been digging them up and giving them away to neighbors. Still have a bunch, and still finding new ones growing in odd places.
Has anyone else ever seen parrots high on basil seeds? Not from this type of basil, obviously. Funniest thing you'll ever see. We had some seeding near our back door. So we went out there one day – Lo! and Behold! a group of about 15 lorikeets and rosellas, absolutely hoeing into the seeds and rolling around like drunk sailors. We could walk straight up to them and they were absolutely 'flying', just rolling around by our feet. We were wetting ourselves laughing. I've always kept basil since, in remembrance of the parrot 'reefer madness' day.
We have a type called South African blue basil, also flowers continually, seeds are sterile, propogation through cuttings is beginer-level easy
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