I have a chive plant that’s about 10 years old, it just sits in partial shade gets watered from time to time, flowers, in fact is full of flowers right now, so they too will go into
salads. If I have flowers in October for the BBQ, they will be mixed into the potato salad and coleslaw. I do not allow my basil to flower, I don’t care for the leaves if they do
flower, the leaves taste a bit bitter, at least to me.
Yeh, I always harvest the basil before it blooms.