Basil lives on!!

[Francis Barnswallow]

I had a basil plant that produced and lived to be 4+ ft. tall, and then it died (lost it's leaves and then dried to nothing). So today I was creating a space for my new cucumbers where the basil plant was, and while I was ripping out the weeds, I noticed I wasn't ripping out weeds, I was ripping out young basil plants.

The original basil plant died nearly a year ago. Does it take a year for basil to finally start growing....from seed?

[gixxerific]

Probably the old plant dropped seed and the new growth is from that. The time frame is not as important as the weather. The seeds were dormant and when temps got right they sprouted. I have basil popping all over the place.

You gotta love volunteers.

[Francis Barnswallow]

Life finds a way.

[soil]

I purposely tossed basil seed all over the place for that very reason. now every spring and summer I have wild basil that I don't have to plant, water, tend to. just harvest.

[GardenRN]

Surprised those little seeds last the winter. Maybe I'll follow suit this year!

[soil]

if you got cold wet winters, toss out the whole seed pod, brown and dried with seed inside. by spring it will decompose at the right time and the basil will grow.