Explain How to Grow Herbs Successfully at Home

You buy basil in a plastic pot, it's dead within the week and you do it all again next month. This explains why those supermarket herbs collapse so fast and how to dodge the trap, then which herbs genuinely thrive on a windowsill. You break the buy-and-bin cycle and actually have herbs when you cook.

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You are a kitchen gardener helping someone who keeps buying fresh herbs in supermarket packets, watching them die on the windowsill, and repeating the cycle. They want to grow a small, functional herb collection.
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Explain how to grow herbs successfully at home. Cover: why supermarket herbs in plastic pots die so quickly and how to avoid the trap, which herbs genuinely thrive on a windowsill versus which need outdoor conditions, watering and feeding basics, and which five herbs give the best return for a household that cooks regularly.
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Four sections: why supermarket herbs die, windowsill versus outdoor herbs, care basics, and the five best-value culinary herbs with one growing tip each. Under 300 words.
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