• Holy Basil in a 4-inch pot, an organic herb with spicy aromatic leaves for teas and warm-season pots
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Holy Basil

Holy Basil

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  • 10-12 weeks mature
  • Certified Organic
  • recommended
  • Ships as a 4" plant

Growth Timeline

  • Growing Season: Most herbs and flowers have a peak growing season that starts in Spring and extends through Fall. Some herbs, such as parsley and cilantro, continue to thrive outside of these seasons. Most herbs can survive year-round. However, they will be dormant during the mild winter months.
  • First Harvest: Herbs grow slower and can take 1-2 months to get to a harvesting stage. Take frequent cuttings once reaching this point for the longevity of the plant.
  • Final Harvest: Herbs will last easily through a season. Many varieties are perennials and will become dormant in the winter before popping back into action in the spring.

Growing Zone

Holy Basil grows best in zones 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, but may do well outside that range as well.

Most Herbs prefer warmer temperatures and will be dormant or grow very slowly in the winter. There are different edible floral varieties that grow throughout the seasons. Be aware of the extreme temperature ranges in your region:

COLD CLIMATES

  • If you live in a location where the temperatures dip below freezing, then you will want to wait to grow herbs until night temperatures are in the 50's consistently.
  • On the occasional dips into the 40's or 30's, you can cover your seedlings with a sheet overnight.

WARM CLIMATES:

  • Herbs do just fine in the heat!

To find out what extreme temperatures your location experiences, check out the USDA zone for your region.

More Herb & Floral Tips

Watering: Herbs don't need as much water as lettuce and leafy greens. In fact, most varieties like to dry out in between watering.

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About this plant

Holy Basil is a certified organic live 4-inch plant of Ocimum tenuiflorum, bushier and more upright than sweet basil, with green-and-purple foliage and a warm, peppery-clove aroma that carries on a hot afternoon.

It reaches roughly 35 inches tall and 25 across — enough presence for a generous patio pot or a spot in the vegetable garden where you want a hedge of scent. Harvest leaves from June into September for tea and cooking, pinching stems often to keep the plant dense. Let a few pink-purple flower spikes open late and the bees will spend the afternoon in them. Full sun, warmth, shelter, and soil kept evenly moist but never soggy.

Fun fact: known as tulsi, it is grown in courtyards across India as a sacred household plant and tended daily — a culinary herb with a devotional job description.

  • Sunlight: Full Sun (6+ hrs)
  • Water: Keep moist
  • Mature Size: 2'–4' tall × over 24" wide
  • Harvest Season: Summer, Fall
  • Lifespan: Perennial in zones 10–11 — grown as an annual in colder zones
  • Hardiness Zones: 10–11
  • Attracts: Bees

Certified organic, and guaranteed to arrive healthy — if it does not, we replace it free.

We take great care to ensure our seedlings are healthy and well-established before they’re shipped. We pre-germinate the organic seeds and grow herbs up to 10-12 weeks before shipping them as young plants. Seedlings typically arrive within 1-4 days. For more information, see our shipping policy.

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