I will FOREVER grow this Medicinal Herb... Meet Holy Basil!!!! 

Hey Friends!!! Here is the link for our pop up sale for our Awesome t-shirts-honeystead.itemorder.com/shop/home/

Tulsi has been the most beneficial herb for me! Weaned off antidepressants using tulsi and drink tulsi daily! It’s delicious and so helpful!!! It’s worked wonders for my daughters anxiety/panic attacks as well!!!

Holy basil reseeded all over my garden, my daughters and I have been drinking lots of holy basil, lemon balm, raspberry leaf tea sweetened with honey and it is so delicious!

I love to pair tulsi with lemon balm, stinging nettle, spearmint and ginger. This is my absolute favorite summer time iced tea.

Wash my garden veggies? I don’t even wash my hands these days 😂. Nature is perfection.

I use Holy Basil and Lemon Balm to cold water and put it in the refrigerator over night....my favorite cold infusion.

In India we worship holy Tulsi (basil) I feel relaxed whenever I sit next to Tulsi plant.

I let this grow wild just to feed my bees in the slow months. I let them all seed their beautiful purple flowers and the bees do their thing.

I learned about holy basil during 2020 when the store was sold out of cold medicine. A friend of mine from India gave me some and told me to make a tea out of holy basil and bee balm. The tea was quite effective and paired with honey and lemon juice...it was so very soothing. Thank you for sharing one of my favorite herb's!! One plant will yield more seed's than you will know what to do with. A great pollinator plant also. Have a wonderful day.

AMEN! You introduced my to Holy Basil, I had never tried it before you talked about it in your seed haul video. I decided to plant some and when The Lord blessed me with 100% germination on the seeds I planted I was ecstatic, but then when it was old enough to taste! WOW WOW WOW WOW! LOVE IT!

Love this channel! I have 3 potted holy basil plants and every time i water them, they send me such an amazing smells. Almost as if they are thanking me

Oh my goodness, I bet the apothecary smells heavenly! Holy Basil is one of my favorite scents!

I don't wash my lettuce leaves. They are up high and not in the dirt at all. I just look them over for green wormies and eat!

I read that freeze dried seeds germ better or faster so I can’t wait to see what you find out! Keep us posted please! ✌🏻🙏🏼❤️

You have inspired me!! I started my medicinal herb garden today and the first thing I planted was Holy Basil!!! Super excited to learn herbalism!!

My holy basil germinated nicely. I'm super excited to get it outside in a couple weeks 😁

Watching this while drinking iced tulsi tea with honey. My favorite garden plant forever!

So interested in your Holy Basil freeze dried seed viability experiment! 🌱 Your channel is so authentic and filled with so much helpful wisdom. Love that you don't use chemicals. Thank-you very much. 💚🐝🦋

LoL, "this is one of my favorite....yeah, i say thay about everything!"

You are absolutely the best! Love your videos and love what a special, amazing person you are! 😊

Bought the big encyclopedia because of you! It’s really useful.

Timing couldn't have been more perfect that you put out this video as I have a ton of holy basil to harvest and no idea what to do with it. As always your videos are so informative and helpful! Love love love all your content - thank you!!

I planted ONE of these years ago and it sends up a hundred volunteer shoots all over my garden late summer.

You have such a great sounding voice. Have you ever thought about singing?

Holy Basil took over my above ground garden and it is a big garden. It took weeks to remove all the roots last Spring and more still came up. Like you, I do love this Little Lady of the Earth but I need to grow other items in my garden.

I really love Holy Basil.🐑

My holy basil is in a pot since I am in zone 4, so I can bring it indoors to over winter. Love Holy Basil!

Kaylee, I wanted to share my experience with Holy Basil. First, I want to say that I feel honored and blessed when that sweet lady grows in my lil patch I call a garden. Several yrs ago I must have been given some Holy Tulsi Basil seeds (thru a FB seed exchange) and grew a plant. I picked the fresh leaves and made tea every morning. That yr I began having terrible hot flashes and horrendous nausea. But, I found that sipping on Tulsi tea controlled those symptoms, and later I realized I was going through the change/menopause. Were it not for Holy Basil it would have been so much worse. I did a lil research on the plant and I have loved it ever since. I also have come to notice it is very calming and relieves anxiety which I've been struggling with at late. I have 2 small plants this yr. I pray it becomes invasive on my property and I end up with it all over my place. Thnx for sharing. I enjoy learning about more medicinal herbs from you and your Mom. I was so enthralled when I saw the rows of Tulsi growing in Jessica Soward's garden on Roots and Refuge in her recent garden tour video. I just love her.

Thank you for your helpful information. I just checked and realized the book my son and his fiance got me for Christmas is the one you reference; Andrew Chevallier's Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine😁

Holy basil lowers cortisol so, great for anxiety.

I love eating the flowers. They taste sweet and lovely

This is the most prolific plant I've ever grown. It comes back by itself every year and needs basically zero care.

I can remember when I only grew basil for my pet rabbits and now I have towers of it in Greenstalks. 😊 My favorite herb is sage and it comes back every year in my garden without overtaking space, like oregano did this season. I love sifting dried sage in honey and taking a spoonful when my throat’s sore.

Ice cold basil tea sweetened with honey is AMAZING! I also like to throw some spearmint into the brew it’s honestly one of my favorite drinks.

I found a wonderful Tulsi, Ginger, Lemongrass tea blend at a temple in Chino Hills, California. I bought many bulk bags because they were having a buy 1 get 2 free and I couldn't pass that by!

I’ve been wanting to try growing holy basil. You’ve now inspired me to go searching for it. 😊

I started basil in the spring and then learned about how many different basil's there are. The medicinal herbs are what I was primarily wanting so I just started the tulsi basil about 4 weeks ago. My regular basil and cinnamon basil are doing great so I'm hoping I can get at least a small tulsi harvest before first frost at the beginning of November.

I found the information very helpful...I enjoyed the video.

My husband fusses about how holy basil takes over.all over the yard. I take it as a tincture for my diabetes.

I love our Holy Tulsi plants and want to sow the seeds all over our city! It's something we grow for Krsna! Blessings to you!!!

Very informative good sharing video,thank you🙏🙏. New subscriber here from the Philippines.

Such an Amazing Plant ! Thank you, God for Providing Everything we Need.❤🙏

Thank you for the Vid. We love it too and use it as a base for many of our teas. We like to mix all three varieties, Rama (O. sanctum), Krishna (O. tenuiflorum) & Vana (O. gratissum), for a rich medicinal properties and flavors ... Also, if you plant Krishna (O. tenuiflorum) in your garden, it will self-seed forever!

Just started growing holy basil this year in with my strawberries. Grows so fast!

I love that encyclopedia!!

You are my favorite Kaylee, love watching your videos🤗

Thanks for sharing!!!

Thank you so much❤ such an amazing teacher

❤ Thank you

let the bee collect nectar as well, Its honey also has medicinal properties.

I had 3 kinds, Vana, Rama, and Krishna. Overwintered in pots inside in a cold house and only the Vana survived. It has softer fuzzier leaves than the others and is light green. Krishna was purple. Not sure if I just missed watering them enough or they just didn't tolerate the cold.

Holy Tulsi I love it

Thank you

One of my favorites

Love learning about your herbs and all the health benifits , thank you for sharing!!!

Thank you for this. So much great info. Also good to know I could harvest while flowering. I thought I was roo late to harvest mine.

I love Holy Basil! I had harvested some and just realized I needed to harvest more. Thanks for sharing this❤

I love growing this you should definitely be able to get a 2nd harvest

You welcome...❤

We cooked leaves with mince pork, minced chicken in Thailand. It's our favorite street food.

I couldnt find a link for the freeze dyer, reallt enjoyed your video, thank you

It is a wonderful herb the most intoxicating smelly goodness a herb can have. I just want to bottle it up as a perfume lol

Loved this video, went over to get some seeds and Hoss is sold out. Mountain rose herbs doesn't have this variety of Tulsi. The search for seeds continues.

Thank you for your valuable information! I just requested the herbal encyclopedia through our library which has an interlibrary loan throughout our state. Thank you for the recommendation!

Thank you for all the book recommendations and amazing videos. I recently the small Herbal Remedies Handbook and I'm loving it. I also love feverfew! I tastes great, and ive started mixing it with chamomile and ginger to help eith my migraines and arthritis/inflammation. 😊

Holy Basil is 1 of my most treasured herbs in my garden. ❤

Are you cultivating the Kapoor tulsi variety? I grow an unknown variety in Bozeman, MT and is grows easily at 4500' elevation! I even overwinter some in a pot and return it to the garden in the spring with success. Most of the plants, however, are grown from seed.

It is a common tea spice in Uganda East Africa. Locals believe that if taken for long it causes memory loss..

I love holy basil! 😍 I ordered the encyclopedia a couple of days ago from your Amazon list.

Would you please consider making merch that doesn’t have polyester in it? I love the designs but am trying to cut out synthetic fabrics due to concerns about micro plastics.

My holy basil reseeds itself every year. So much so that I have to pull up many or they'd take over everything!

I have that encyclopedia, it's a beautiful book. I don't wash anything from my garden unless it has dirt on it

this is sooo..cool i was just going to try to germinate a favorite variety ofa hugh paste tomatoe seeds that came out of the freeze dryer/// I'll be keeping an on on you about this be watching to see if your seeds remained viable

I've read about the potential of infertility when holy basil is consumed in large quantities 🙄. What are your thoughts on this? I've a lot of holy basil growing in my small garden, it essentially grew into a 3 feet shrub. Now, I'm wondering if I should keep using it in my food (stir fry tofu+ green beans with holy basil) and herbal tea 😔

Without a doubt the number one favorite in my garden…the smallest seeds that seems to take forever to grow to a substantial size and so worth the wait…but what an amazing flavor to harvest..have a bit of it everywhere in the yard…wanting to go to seed now but I just clip about every other day seeds and all to have this tea available to everyone in the house..also ready to use the harvest right so we will be blessed with it in the winter months…thanks for sharing …stay blessed.

I am so thankful that I had just found you because I love herbs and essential oils and I am thinking about growing it and using it like you are. I have a Oregano bush that has been growing for a few years and I live in the desert 🏜! What are the best herbs that can grow in a desert 🏜, like El Paso? Thanks and I am brand new to you're channel and it's similar to where I am in what I am learning and thanks for sharing all of this and take care!

that is a HUGE difference. wow. I wonder if my dehydrator would be better than just letting it sit out. will have to save up for that freeze dryer. Didn't know Tulsi did all that either. for sure will plant that in the spring.

Just wanted to say 👋 hi!! Still love watching your channel 🥰 hoping to get my freeze drier next year and will be referring back to your videos 😉

Can I buy through your apothecary it is so amazing watching you? Would love to use some of your products for our family.

On the Bayous of Louisiana at this time of year you can harvest wild cow pea it’s called hairy cow peas. You can eat the flowers, pod & peas. It grows like a weed & insect don’t bother it. So prolific you have to keep it cut back

I love Tusli so much!! I love your channel! 💚😍🌿 Question- what do you think is the best herb for overall health is?

I'm always harvesting them. Wild lettuce out in the pasture, holy basil in the garden. I'm actually looking to start planting the Basil around the edge of the pasture.

Holy basil is so great. I found holy basil and green tea that is pretty tasty. I'm curious, have you tried freeze drying lemon balm. I have heard it has a shorter self life. If so, did you find that its shelf life was shorter even when freeze drying?

You can add mint leaves too

I love your channel. Your presence is comfortable. I trust your wisdom. I am running short on pantry space and I am building my apothecary. How far from a window is safe for storage. I have a shelf 10-12 ft from a patio door. Will that be safe for storage or are herbs better kept in a dark place.

Beautiful. I can almost smell it. (Or could walk to the garden) I can not believe the difference with color from freeze drying. My favorites are ashwagandha and tulsi.

Butterfly pea flower is also an adaptogenic and good to stabilize blood sugar. I like to add it to my tulsi tea.

Two of the best pollinator attractors is Perpetual Basil (Holy Basil) and lavender. We have plants at the end of each row of vegetables and never had a problem with any pollination issues whilst others are struggling. Just a Quick heads up for anyone growing their own vegetables etc.

Holy Basil smells so good!! I thank you so much!!

Mine has self seeded itself into my tilled veg garden 💞💞

Omgoodness. I have tons of holly basil I just started this year. I'm also battling a nasty step throat infection that antibiotics don't seem to be helping. I'm brewing some tea right now. Thank you

One thing I wanted to add is if you could include how you germinated your holy basil seeds and kind of followed the process. You may have done it in one of your older videos, but if you're not sure which you can give us just an update on that that would be appreciated! thank you

That would be a great way to store seeds long-term if there still viable, It might save you a fair amount of work chopping to use a food prossesoer ,i don't have one so I'm guessing.

I made holy basil tincture last year. In July my son and I both got strep throat and we got on antibiotics. I started taking a dropper full of holy basil tincture 2 times a day. He tried it but hated the taste. My strep lasted 3 days and his lasted over a week. I only took 2 days of antibiotics and he took all 10 days.

You may find Tulsi will volunteer seed for you. I’m in zone 5b-6 and I have volunteers. I’m wondering what your thoughts are about tincturing with ashwagandha. They just seem to be a good match and I take the ashwagandha daily. Not a regular tea drinker but do love the way tulsi tastes and smells.

Holy basil the most holy plant in India. Some people cal it the indian reishi. Its an adoptagen and restores alot in your body if you take it for a long time. Its my favorite. Combi it with l theanine 200mg and magnesium before bed and you sleep very good.

I use my bullet blender to crush/powder up things quick, but not sure it will work for what you need. Blessings!

My grandmother gave me a linden tree that she got from a friend it came from Slovenia and i planted it when i lived in another state about 20 years ago it made the best tea. I would love to know what kind of linden tree it was

I got the hanging basket and love it! I would love to have a freeze dryer but it's not in my budget. My drying basket is full of herbs that I foraged!

This is the one herb that I am so sad that I wasn't able to plant this year. I even had the seeds. Ugh. I'm planning next years garden already. Have you ever grown Tulsi inside during the winter? Also, where are you getting your Linden leaves? Do you have a Linden tree?