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Julie Chai, associate garden editor of Sunset magazine suggests that home gardeners remove the flowers from basil plants as they appear. By plucking the flowers you are keeping the herb in a prepubescent state, which will taste a lot better, and less bitter, than "older" basil. ======================CHOW.com========================= CHOW Tips are the shared wisdom of our community. If you've figured out some piece of food, drink, or cooking wisdom that the world has to know about, send us a message and tell us what you've got in mind! See all the newest uploads from CHOW with the Latest Videos playlist: http://bit.ly/owLvNO Subscribe to CHOW: http://bit.ly/xTzxYj For more recipes, stories and videos, check out http://www.chow.com/videos CHOW on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/CHOW CHOW on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Chow ======================================================== TRANSCRIPT When you're growing Basil, you always want to keep the flowers pinched. Because once the flowers develop the flavor changes, so look for the flower heads and just pinch down to an intersection and that creates more side growth and more Basil.