Do you recognize this?
You buy a jar of basil in the supermarket, hoping that your pot will survive a few weeks on your windowsill in the kitchen. You water it, you cut off some leaves... and yet. After a good week you can only see some shattered leaves and some blades.

What went wrong?

Everything, actually. From the start...

The jars from the supermarket are actually made for direct consumption. For more or less direct use, say. The potting soil contains few nutrients, the roots have no space in the pot.

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