- Prune early and often, especially fast growing basil.
- Keep your lights as low as possible as long as possible. Keep your lights within 4 inches of your shortest plant.
- Prune horizontal growth so that it does not block light to neighboring plants.
- Always prune at a leaf joint. A leaf joint is the point of connection of a leaf with the stem from which a bud arises.
- Never prune more than a 1/3 of the plant at one time.
- Pruning the newest growth of basil plants will create more leaf growth and less stem growth.
- To keep your thyme and mint plants bushy, remove the pieces that have long stems and few leaves.
- Rotate the pods and put the fullest side of the plants out and the thinner side in towards the center of the garden.
- Basil, mint are fast growing plants and require more pruning than thyme, oregano, parsley and dill which are slower growing.