Suggestion: I went to a pho restaurant, took my Thai basil stems home and put in water. They sprouted roots and now I’ve got more Thai basil than I know what to do with!
Yes, same here. I tried to start from Thai basil seeds. Didn't work for a long time. Finally got one plant from seeds. Cutting is much much easier. Since it's from a restaurant, I don't know for sure what kind it is.
I have at times pruned my Basil plants to cut off stems that were beginning to bloom, and the cuttings that were left on the soil sprouted roots and began to grow.
@@yvonnetsai2476 I got two to come up from seed in my hydro planter and put them in dirt. It's great fresh in coleslaw. I've dried some, and have some rooting in water. One is Tai & 1 Genovese Basil sprouts in 6-12 days.
You’ve changed my life man. Got me into gardening and, more importantly, self-sufficiency. I’ve not only learned how “to grow a ton of vej” but I’ve learned how keep chickens and quail, to use various power tools and construction techniques building coops and garden beds, and even how to maintain and in many cases repair my own vehicles. Thank you for starting me on the path. I will continue to watch every video you release!
This grows very easily from a cutting. I have easily done it many times just cutting an new shoot and putting in soil. And the Australian banded bee loves it.
Have you ever tried growing lettuce leaf basil? It is like stronger sweet basil flavor wise but it has leaves up to 6 inches wide and grows super fast!
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!
Love perennial basil. I grow it as a hedge . Can prune brutally and in a few weeks back comes beautiful new foliage. When pruning take pieces with a heel and grow in water a few weeks till healthy roots grow then plant out.
I love your channel, thank you for the time you put into your videos and your relaxed and informative clips. I have grown this perennial basil for many years, always by cutting. Mine lived well passed the 5 year mark and survived during the 3 year drought on its own (I moved after that). I pruned it back quite dramatically as well as I put it near a path and didn't realise its size, it kept growing and thriving. I have 2 plants growing at the moment both in places that allow them to grow fully and just be. I have seen them growing with enough space around them unpruned and they are spectacular all year round with flowers and buzzing bees. I just love them.
A big thumbs up Mark. An excellent plant to promote. It attracts so many bees into my garden that then stick around and mosey about pollinating the plants I want pollinated!
Watch out ducks love it. I had a big plant for years but I had to move the ducks they ate it in no time. Ducks control bananas as well. Don't leave them too long they can drop big suckers. Just let them trim. Love your channel been watching for years. Central Queensland.
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.
I am growing this also Mark, I strike cutting from it regularly. I find growing it in the shade also slows up flowering so you can harvest more! No seeds as it's sterile😀
hey Mark! great video, as an Italian desent we always have genovese basil in the garden; Ive heard it also called sweet, or medditeranian Basil before. We have tried thai basil, cinnimon, and purple basil but they have a hard time surviving Texas summers. Beautiful Caprese salad ;P
Thanks Mark, good vid. I can say that propagating Basil is easy. Take 8 inch long cuttings and place in a glass of water in a window for 12 days or so and you should see many fine hair roots developing. Place in a pot outdoors and water well ( remember its used to a lot of water!) . Back off on the water after a few days and the cuttings should thrive and be an exact replica of the parent plant. Thanks again Mark for great videos.
I have my Thai basil in a 10" pot and it's about 4 ' high. I cut back in the evening so the bees get their nectar. I throw some of the cuttings in a large bucket that catches water to deter mosquitos and some I bring in the house for the smell.
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.
I have this one, it's 5 years old and now I keep it for the bees and butterflies! I have seen a blue banded bee on mine several times. Can you put the green mango salad recipe on your other channel please. I have never found any viable seeds either. Thanks for showing what happens when you give it a good haircut, I have been too scared to do this to mine. Keen to see if you can propagate it from cuttings. The fox who took my chickens last year buried my chicken under it for later retrieval (I buried it deeper and put bricks on top to keep foxy from taking her) so it has a special place in my heart now.
Looks just like my “spicy basil”. I did get tons of seeds & would plant several in a pod. Very easy to grow. Was in Oklahoma north east area. Shared plant starts with neighbors I had so many.
I like how he pronounces herbs... he says h-erbs like the name Herb, not like here in America we pronounce it more like erbs.. with the h silent. Love it.
I think we Americans say it both ways. I hear herbs more than erbs in Arizona. Added: Now I’m a little self conscious about it, cause now I’m saying it both ways. 😳
herb is a french word, the h is silent in french, actually i think old french didnt even have an h in it. the british just decided to change the pronunciation of it and other words later on. the funny thing is there are other english words where british people don't pronounce the h.
I knew which one it was before you let us know because I also grow it ... perennial basil. 💚 The leaves are very intensely flavoured and slightly spicy & the bees absolutely love it for the flowers. I’ve never even used it for eating, I thought the taste was too intense. I bought it to keep the bees happy. I have lots of Thai basil that pops up every year and use that. Mine also looks its best through end of winter & spring before the Perth heat stresses it out. I have it in a large tub & find it needs almost daily watering through summer. Please keep us updated on propagating it as I’m looking at doing mine eventually.
Hi Mark doing great a big fan of your content, just one simple tip to try next time you prune this beauty thin it out too so remaining branches will have more place to grow bigger leave and plant will give a more controlled look rather then wild.
We grow heaps of it. All from one cutting my dad gave me. Heaps of little plants grown from cuttings given to friends as well. Great stuff. Keep it up Mark!
I’ve had equal success growing from seed gathered similar to that of sweet basil when you let it go to seed, and placing a cutting in a glass of water it will soon grow roots and is able to be potted with out rooting powder and takes well to potting mix when first potted from the glass. I both every year and always litter then near my passionfruit 😉 great cross pollinators 👍
That would be a fail in my garden. Lol. I had one rosemary take over a 4ft x 8ft raised bed. Total waste of space for my limited deer proof garden. I put all my herbs outside that area when I realized deer don't eat them. Now they can get as big as they can.
Happy to see one of your videos again!!!. You had all but disapeared from you tube and I am subscribed. I live in SoCal and can apply much of your videos to our area. Keep up tge good work!!!
Great video! I didn’t know about perennial basil. I’ve successfully grown sweet basil plants from seed in pots inside my house (south-facing bay window) that have lived for 3 years. It’s all about the soil, nutrients and regular attention.
I got a pack of mixed basil seeds and sprinkled them in a garden bed. Im pretty sure a few of the plants are this perennial variety because they're the only ones still growing and have quite a strong liquorice flavour. I tend to use less of them in thai cooking than regular thai basil because the flavour can be overpowering.
I think the word you are looking for it’s “balsamic”. I will see if I can find this variety in Sicily because we use to use the sweet basil but it usually dies after a season. I still have a love plant. I’ll tell you if it’s still living on spring!
That is some basil, wow! Thanks for sharing a bit of a comparison. I've so far only grown sweet basil and loved it. I have heard as well that basil helps to keep pests away, that and other smelly good herbs.
I've only recently come across your channel , and a BIG thumbs up to your efforts. As a rule , I hate listening to Englanders , but Australian is so much better . Your videos are well thought out and easy to understand . Keep up the great work !!!
I struggle to grow thai basil here in Brisbane. It grows nicely but as soon as I start to harvest it just dies back. Wondering if it might need a sandy soil. Or I need to give it more time to get established?
I have been cloning 'regular' basil using the hydroponic method to start them of for about a year now, it does wonders. The new plants are much bushier, the leaves larger and more vibrant in color.
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 -too- much basil. If Basil was money id be Bezos.
Thanks Mark! Exactly what I needed to see. I'm buying some basil tomorrow from the nursery. I'll try some other varieties. I usually just plant the sweet basil. Thanks.
Hello from Caloundra, Mark! My All Year Basil has gone nuts in the small pot. I'm going to cut it back and transplant it in a larger pot. I hope it survives!
Good to know it has a licorice flavour, I don't like licorice so I might stick to sweet basil although the excessive flowers would be great for pollinators
So many flowers! Have you tried using them for basil flower tea? I'm curious to hear how this variety tastes compared to tea made from 'standard' sweet basil flowers. :)
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
Love this show! My basil just dies every year. Please,can you do one on Sage. I have tried to grow for years in a pot in Perth and that just dies too! ? Perth soil, climate, bad gardener!
I had a plant infested with spider mites. I sprayed her with some neem oil and planted a basil next to it and stuck them both in a small 4x4 greenhouse. The mites where still there for one week, but one week only they all just left. Then I noticed that the basil created like a barrier for a month around the green house. You wild see them all over my concrete floor around the garden but never on many plants cause all the plants got sprayed with oil. Needles to say basil works wonders on mites in the end most of them left
Used to be a younger grower such as yourself. It’s hard when your friends and family aren’t as interested but sometimes they like it too, though that might be different nowadays. Keep doing what you love and would love to hear about what you grow and what you struggle with, Favourite plants, etc. I started with plants out so my nanna’s garden as that was all I had access to at the time, mostly succulents and perennial flowers. Always been passionate about herbs and have killed a lot over the years 😂. All the best.
I agree with druidgrove. Keep on gardening and don't let anyone else influence you. The world will always need gardeners. And in England there are those lovely old houses that need gardeners to look after them.
Does your perennial basil have a serrated leaf? More so than Thai basil? I think the Thai basil I got last year may be the same as yours. Quite different growth to the usual one I've grown and here in Melbourne the Thai basil often doesn't make it through winter. The one I have now kept growing and I have to chop it back to stop it from taking over the herb bed. As you mention it's great for Asian-style dishes but you have to use it carefully in Italian cooking. Great video mate 👍
Very nice video my friend ! They look so green and fresh , wanna try some . Thank you for sharing! May you have a good yield. Stay support each other my friend👍🔔❤️❤️❤️❤️
In Thailand they use "Thai Holy Basil" which has a more peppery flavour rather than a sweet aniseed flavour. Phad Gra-Pow gai/moo is a famous Thai stir fry dish using this Basil and it's delicious. He's a big Basil thumbs up for ya Mark.
We have a few of these in our vegie garden in Brisbane just for the bees. The bees love it and it brings them into the garden to pollinate the other vegies.
Looks quite similar to African Blue Basil - the only one that lives through our hot Florida summers and becomes a bush that looks a lot like yours. NO licorice flavor - it is a bit spicy and peppery with a nice full-bodied Basil flavor. Very hardy perennial.
Thyme has similar purple flowers in moderate northern hemisphere areas. Basil can be a bit of a bitch to grow if your spring/summer isn't long enough or you have uncertain seasons. Most types of mint will grow anywhere in the UK/IRE area, but they will completely takeover any area you plant them in soil, so best kept in planters or pots. That way you can control their growth, and always have enough to snip for your mint and mashed potatoes....or just have enough for mojitos all year round!
I have bought a small basil and let it stay outside on porch, so far aphids attacked , then ants are on it now. I sprayed some neem oil mixture stay to kill those bugs and it just did not look healthy. I took it inside and it died😕So I live in Florida, USA and I went to buy another. So far I let it out only when it’s drizzling rain or very cool, as I don’t see many bugs.. and then I take it back in in real warm weather. I hope it survives now!
I love basil. I think Pacific Islanders grow them around their house because they are scared of ghosts...fairdinkum! LOL I only started eating them when I came to Australia. And, I can't remember seeing any Islanders cook with them. We do sew them in with our flower leis. Maybe today's Islanders use them because of popular Asian cooking. I often plant them along my pathways to the front door. I pick a piece and pop it on my ear or hairdo when I go out. I smell like basil. I only eat the ones in my backyard :)
Suggestion: I went to a pho restaurant, took my Thai basil stems home and put in water. They sprouted roots and now I’ve got more Thai basil than I know what to do with!
Yes, same here. I tried to start from Thai basil seeds. Didn't work for a long time. Finally got one plant from seeds. Cutting is much much easier. Since it's from a restaurant, I don't know for sure what kind it is.
I have at times pruned my Basil plants to cut off stems that were beginning to bloom, and the cuttings that were left on the soil sprouted roots and began to grow.
That's some doggy bag.
you must have looked like such a tool.. you can get a whole pack of thai basil seeds for like 2 bucks man.
@@yvonnetsai2476 I got two to come up from seed in my hydro planter and put them in dirt. It's great fresh in coleslaw. I've dried some, and have some rooting in water. One is Tai & 1 Genovese Basil sprouts in 6-12 days.
You’ve changed my life man. Got me into gardening and, more importantly, self-sufficiency. I’ve not only learned how “to grow a ton of vej” but I’ve learned how keep chickens and quail, to use various power tools and construction techniques building coops and garden beds, and even how to maintain and in many cases repair my own vehicles. Thank you for starting me on the path. I will continue to watch every video you release!
We have a type called South African blue basil, also flowers continually, seeds are sterile, propogation through cuttings is beginer-level easy
This grows very easily from a cutting. I have easily done it many times just cutting an new shoot and putting in soil. And the Australian banded bee loves it.
Morning Mark, how refreshing to see you first thing in the morning talking about one of my favourite herbs.
Mark is the Steve Irwin of the gardening world. Don’t even try to change my mind.
Even if I have no interest in learning about Basil at the moment, it is a pleasure to hear him speak. So much positive, wholesome energy.
Nailed it.
Here, here. Our newest Aussie Icon !
Where does Mark go about sticking his finger in the plants' butthole 😂? Any other South Park fans?
Krikey, she’s a cranky little plant!
Such a great plant to have Mark and amazing herb and such a huge specimen. Great video mate
I have two years old thai basil now I grow so many from that one plant
I’ve got one of these basils staked in my garden that’s easy 10 foot tall! Best plant 🪴 ever!
Have you ever tried growing lettuce leaf basil? It is like stronger sweet basil flavor wise but it has leaves up to 6 inches wide and grows super fast!
I’ll try this!
Is it also a perennial?
Where do you get seeds?
Hi..... Mark nice to see you, thank you for sharing your video 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🎥👍👍👍
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!
Love perennial basil. I grow it as a hedge . Can prune brutally and in a few weeks back comes beautiful new foliage. When pruning take pieces with a heel and grow in water a few weeks till healthy roots grow then plant out.
I love your channel, thank you for the time you put into your videos and your relaxed and informative clips. I have grown this perennial basil for many years, always by cutting. Mine lived well passed the 5 year mark and survived during the 3 year drought on its own
(I moved after that). I pruned it back quite dramatically as well as I put it near a path and didn't realise its size, it kept growing and thriving. I have 2 plants growing at the moment both in places that allow them to grow fully and just be. I have seen them growing with enough space around them unpruned and they are spectacular all year round with flowers and buzzing bees. I just love them.
A big thumbs up Mark. An excellent plant to promote. It attracts so many bees into my garden that then stick around and mosey about pollinating the plants I want pollinated!
Watch out ducks love it. I had a big plant for years but I had to move the ducks they ate it in no time. Ducks control bananas as well. Don't leave them too long they can drop big suckers. Just let them trim. Love your channel been watching for years. Central Queensland.
I use the basil with amaranth for a cheap weed feed. It is a weed we all cut down that is great in our food. Cobblers peg is another great weed feed.
Wow! I absolutely love the smell and taste of basil, this is a great advice. Thanks, Mark!
Our Perennial Basil is now 12 years old and still going.
Try a leaf of the perennial basil with a cube of watermelon. It’s so refreshing and delicious
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.
In Cairns, Thai basil grows amazingly. It also puts on heaps of seeds so there's always new plants! I love it!
An amazing plant. Got my first cutting almost 10 years ago and it is still alive. Have also planted many more using cuttings only.
I am growing this also Mark, I strike cutting from it regularly. I find growing it in the shade also slows up flowering so you can harvest more! No seeds as it's sterile😀
Thai basil is my favorite!! It is super hearty and grows in south Texas heat with little attention. LOVE IT!
hey Mark! great video, as an Italian desent we always have genovese basil in the garden; Ive heard it also called sweet, or medditeranian Basil before.
We have tried thai basil, cinnimon, and purple basil but they have a hard time surviving Texas summers. Beautiful Caprese salad ;P
I just bought both sweet and Genovese basil seeds. Also in TX
This man is an absolute garden mastermind. Love it!!!
I took a basil plant from my grandfather 9 years ago and kept it in ideal conditions. The base of the plant is now about as thick as a baseball bat.
I love using basil in tea
Thanks Mark, good vid. I can say that propagating Basil is easy. Take 8 inch long cuttings and place in a glass of water in a window for 12 days or so and you should see many fine hair roots developing. Place in a pot outdoors and water well ( remember its used to a lot of water!) . Back off on the water after a few days and the cuttings should thrive and be an exact replica of the parent plant. Thanks again Mark for great videos.
I have my Thai basil in a 10" pot and it's about 4 ' high. I cut back in the evening so the bees get their nectar. I throw some of the cuttings in a large bucket that catches water to deter mosquitos and some I bring in the house for the smell.
What do you want a medal.? God bless you spring in
Hope everyone has a great 2021 and stays safe❤️😊
Thank you,best wishes to you too 🙂
Amazing Basil plant, is herbs as well
I love thai basil, now I must hunt me down some of this perennial version. I think it would look great in the front yard garden 😀
I got some Bunnings a few weeks ago.
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.
I have this one, it's 5 years old and now I keep it for the bees and butterflies! I have seen a blue banded bee on mine several times. Can you put the green mango salad recipe on your other channel please. I have never found any viable seeds either. Thanks for showing what happens when you give it a good haircut, I have been too scared to do this to mine. Keen to see if you can propagate it from cuttings. The fox who took my chickens last year buried my chicken under it for later retrieval (I buried it deeper and put bricks on top to keep foxy from taking her) so it has a special place in my heart now.
Yes please for the recipe, it looks delicious.
Looks just like my “spicy basil”. I did get tons of seeds & would plant several in a pod. Very easy to grow. Was in Oklahoma north east area. Shared plant starts with neighbors I had so many.
Those seeds are very powerful consume one shoot a day and you will feel the difference.
Very cool plant ,I must look for seeds ! Anise is a bit of a licorice flavor . It just dawned on me it's called Tulsi but a annual here .
I like how he pronounces herbs... he says h-erbs like the name Herb, not like here in America we pronounce it more like erbs.. with the h silent.
Love it.
That’s because most English speaking societies pronounce the H. House, happy, hero, herb!
I think we Americans say it both ways. I hear herbs more than erbs in Arizona.
Added: Now I’m a little self conscious about it, cause now I’m saying it both ways. 😳
herb is a french word, the h is silent in french, actually i think old french didnt even have an h in it. the british just decided to change the pronunciation of it and other words later on. the funny thing is there are other english words where british people don't pronounce the h.
Greeting from San Diego, California USA... 90f degrees here today... in the middle of January!!
We are waiting for our Lime Basil to sprout any day! 🌱
I knew which one it was before you let us know because I also grow it ... perennial basil. 💚 The leaves are very intensely flavoured and slightly spicy & the bees absolutely love it for the flowers. I’ve never even used it for eating, I thought the taste was too intense. I bought it to keep the bees happy. I have lots of Thai basil that pops up every year and use that. Mine also looks its best through end of winter & spring before the Perth heat stresses it out. I have it in a large tub & find it needs almost daily watering through summer. Please keep us updated on propagating it as I’m looking at doing mine eventually.
Grows easily from cuttings, really hardy, happy to be cut back hard, its indestructable. I have plants around my veggie garden to attract bees
Hi Mark doing great a big fan of your content, just one simple tip to try next time you prune this beauty thin it out too so remaining branches will have more place to grow bigger leave and plant will give a more controlled look rather then wild.
We grow heaps of it. All from one cutting my dad gave me. Heaps of little plants grown from cuttings given to friends as well. Great stuff. Keep it up Mark!
I’ve had equal success growing from seed gathered similar to that of sweet basil when you let it go to seed, and placing a cutting in a glass of water it will soon grow roots and is able to be potted with out rooting powder and takes well to potting mix when first potted from the glass. I both every year and always litter then near my passionfruit 😉 great cross pollinators 👍
That would be a fail in my garden. Lol. I had one rosemary take over a 4ft x 8ft raised bed. Total waste of space for my limited deer proof garden. I put all my herbs outside that area when I realized deer don't eat them. Now they can get as big as they can.
Happy to see one of your videos again!!!. You had all but disapeared from you tube and I am subscribed. I live in SoCal and can apply much of your videos to our area. Keep up tge good work!!!
You are fantastic i could listen to you no matter what your doing.
Great video! I didn’t know about perennial basil. I’ve successfully grown sweet basil plants from seed in pots inside my house (south-facing bay window) that have lived for 3 years. It’s all about the soil, nutrients and regular attention.
I got a pack of mixed basil seeds and sprinkled them in a garden bed. Im pretty sure a few of the plants are this perennial variety because they're the only ones still growing and have quite a strong liquorice flavour. I tend to use less of them in thai cooking than regular thai basil because the flavour can be overpowering.
G'day Mark.
I grow a ton of the perennial basil from cutting all the time. They sprout roots very fast. Super easy to do.
I think the word you are looking for it’s “balsamic”. I will see if I can find this variety in Sicily because we use to use the sweet basil but it usually dies after a season. I still have a love plant. I’ll tell you if it’s still living on spring!
I did have that perennial basil. Excellent for drying.
I had a perennial basil plant and it grew massive and lasted for years, best type to grow.
I made cuttings and have a few plants still around from it.
So interesting, I bought my Thai basil plant because of you, in a previous video had shown it, such a pretty plant 😊
That is some basil, wow! Thanks for sharing a bit of a comparison. I've so far only grown sweet basil and loved it. I have heard as well that basil helps to keep pests away, that and other smelly good herbs.
Your videos made quarantine/lock down so much better 😊
Love your videos Mark, from NZ. Thanks. Keep them rolling!
Great video.... i am going out to transplant and restart my basils... they are still alive (San Diego) but looking rough.
I've only recently come across your channel , and a BIG thumbs up to your efforts. As a rule , I hate listening to Englanders , but Australian is so much better . Your videos are well thought out and easy to understand . Keep up the great work !!!
I struggle to grow thai basil here in Brisbane. It grows nicely but as soon as I start to harvest it just dies back.
Wondering if it might need a sandy soil. Or I need to give it more time to get established?
Thank you for sharing. Nice to hear the animals
That mango salad looks wonderful. Can I get the receipe. Do you put onion peels in your compost.
I have been cloning 'regular' basil using the hydroponic method to start them of for about a year now, it does wonders. The new plants are much bushier, the leaves larger and more vibrant in color.
Looking great. I haven't tried that variety but I love Thai basil. It's quite hard to find here in NZ so if you want it you have to grow it yourself
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 -too- much basil. If Basil was money id be Bezos.
I'll have to hunt down this variety. I've grown Thai basil and it's great.
❤ it in the single bed, def going to add one. Thanks Mark! 👍👍
The bees must love you basil is one of the bees favourite.
Thanks Mark! Exactly what I needed to see. I'm buying some basil tomorrow from the nursery. I'll try some other varieties. I usually just plant the sweet basil. Thanks.
I can’t wait for this years garden, I’m planting 2 new varieties of Basil. Thank you.
Thanks Mark. Such good and helpful info 👍😊
This was incredible brother! Excellent work! Thanks so much for sharing!
Hello from Caloundra, Mark! My All Year Basil has gone nuts in the small pot. I'm going to cut it back and transplant it in a larger pot. I hope it survives!
Mine died in the severe drought we had last Summer. I plan on growing it again, as while it was alive it was great.
Good to know it has a licorice flavour, I don't like licorice so I might stick to sweet basil although the excessive flowers would be great for pollinators
So many flowers! Have you tried using them for basil flower tea? I'm curious to hear how this variety tastes compared to tea made from 'standard' sweet basil flowers. :)
I’m planting basil now. Can you tell me how to make this tea?
@@CloudslnMyCoffee Just dry the flowers and steep them like normal tea leaves. :)
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
Love this show! My basil just dies every year. Please,can you do one on Sage. I have tried to grow for years in a pot in Perth and that just dies too! ? Perth soil, climate, bad gardener!
I had a plant infested with spider mites. I sprayed her with some neem oil and planted a basil next to it and stuck them both in a small 4x4 greenhouse. The mites where still there for one week, but one week only they all just left. Then I noticed that the basil created like a barrier for a month around the green house. You wild see them all over my concrete floor around the garden but never on many plants cause all the plants got sprayed with oil. Needles to say basil works wonders on mites in the end most of them left
Hi always love your videos
I’m probably the only ten year old that grows stuff
Used to be a younger grower such as yourself. It’s hard when your friends and family aren’t as interested but sometimes they like it too, though that might be different nowadays. Keep doing what you love and would love to hear about what you grow and what you struggle with, Favourite plants, etc. I started with plants out so my nanna’s garden as that was all I had access to at the time, mostly succulents and perennial flowers. Always been passionate about herbs and have killed a lot over the years 😂. All the best.
@@druidgrove my favourite plant are potatoes since here in the UK they can be grown all year round. I also like to grow tomatoes.
I agree with druidgrove. Keep on gardening and don't let anyone else influence you. The world will always need gardeners. And in England there are those lovely old houses that need gardeners to look after them.
@@helenebennie3961 thanks
I agree on the seeds. I have a few huge plants here in Florida from one cutting but never see any seeds!
Congratulations on 1 Million, your passion is now officially a well paying career!
I love Thai basil, so I'll have to see if perennial basil is hardy here in the northeast US.. thanks for the tip!
😍 to the basil. Love it. one of mine grew monstrous, so nice to garden around it and have that smell sitting past. Thanks for the vid
Does your perennial basil have a serrated leaf? More so than Thai basil? I think the Thai basil I got last year may be the same as yours.
Quite different growth to the usual one I've grown and here in Melbourne the Thai basil often doesn't make it through winter.
The one I have now kept growing and I have to chop it back to stop it from taking over the herb bed.
As you mention it's great for Asian-style dishes but you have to use it carefully in Italian cooking.
Great video mate 👍
Very nice video my friend ! They look so green and fresh , wanna try some . Thank you for sharing! May you have a good yield. Stay support each other my friend👍🔔❤️❤️❤️❤️
In Thailand they use "Thai Holy Basil" which has a more peppery flavour rather than a sweet aniseed flavour. Phad Gra-Pow gai/moo is a famous Thai stir fry dish using this Basil and it's delicious. He's a big Basil thumbs up for ya Mark.
We have a few of these in our vegie garden in Brisbane just for the bees. The bees love it and it brings them into the garden to pollinate the other vegies.
I really appreciate your videos.
Thank you, always keeping my spirits up 🙂
Thanks Mark, for all your videos! Bought a perpetual basil plant in your honour after watching. :-)
Looks quite similar to African Blue Basil - the only one that lives through our hot Florida summers and becomes a bush that looks a lot like yours. NO licorice flavor - it is a bit spicy and peppery with a nice full-bodied Basil flavor. Very hardy perennial.
Thyme has similar purple flowers in moderate northern hemisphere areas. Basil can be a bit of a bitch to grow if your spring/summer isn't long enough or you have uncertain seasons. Most types of mint will grow anywhere in the UK/IRE area, but they will completely takeover any area you plant them in soil, so best kept in planters or pots. That way you can control their growth, and always have enough to snip for your mint and mashed potatoes....or just have enough for mojitos all year round!
Would love to see some of your personal Thai cooking recipes. Are there any on your channel?
Pesto freezes very well. I leave the cheese out until I thaw it and am ready to use it.
Well done
I have bought a small basil and let it stay outside on porch, so far aphids attacked , then ants are on it now. I sprayed some neem oil mixture stay to kill those bugs and it just did not look healthy. I took it inside and it died😕So I live in Florida, USA and I went to buy another. So far I let it out only when it’s drizzling rain or very cool, as I don’t see many bugs.. and then I take it back in in real warm weather. I hope it survives now!
Ive got a basil plant in my aquaponics system not sure which variety but had the plant for over a year n half now
I love basil. I think Pacific Islanders grow them around their house because they are scared of ghosts...fairdinkum! LOL I only started eating them when I came to Australia. And, I can't remember seeing any Islanders cook with them. We do sew them in with our flower leis. Maybe today's Islanders use them because of popular Asian cooking.
I often plant them along my pathways to the front door. I pick a piece and pop it on my ear or hairdo when I go out. I smell like basil. I only eat the ones in my backyard :)
we have our perennial is growing in a semishade and the leave are almost all full on purple, super pretty