How pick tomatoes / snip basil / harvest peppers so plant keeps growing?
As soon as the tomatoes and peppers are ripe… pick em’. More will follow. Basil can be cut back and harvested anytime. Try to avoid letting the plant bloom, flowers = bitter taste, pinch off the flowers before they open. This is why you can keep cutting the basil and using it, because the basil will flush out with new leaves. Here are some veggie harvesting basics: http://www.ehow.
