Herbs & foliage
Basil Planting Calculator
Ocimum basilicum
Everything you need to plan Basil: recommended spacing, how many plants and seeds you'll need, when to start, and when to expect a harvest. Defaults come from grower references and every value is editable.
At a glance
- Recommended spacing
- 9″
- Range 4–9″
- Planting pattern
- Intensive bed
- Time to first production
- 74–80 days from sowing
- Succession planting
- Recommended
- Every 21 days
- Start indoors
- 6 weeks before
- before last frost
- Production pattern
- Cut-and-come-again
- Pinch
Plan your Basil beds
Prefilled with Basil's recommended spacing. Adjust your bed size to get plant counts, seeds to start, and tray requirements.
Loads recommended spacing and planting pattern. You can override anything.
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Default 9″Range 4–9″
Your plan
326
Total plants
Based on 1.63 plants/sq ft at 9″ spacing
- Seeds to start (10% buffer)
- 359
- 72-cell trays needed
- 5
- 128-cell trays needed
- 3
More Basil planning
Planning notes
- Landscape fabric
- Pinching
Cut-and-come-again. A planting keeps producing new stems over a relatively long harvest period when it is picked regularly, so successive plantings are usually spaced farther apart.
- Pinching is commonly used in this production system.
- Landscape fabric is commonly used for spacing and weed control.