I was doing it all wrong.
I used to buy those basil plants from the supermarket—the ones that come in the little pots.
I watered them regularly and thought I was doing everything right.
But they kept dying.
I convinced myself that supermarket basil plants just don’t live for very long.
However, I then learnt you have to wait until the basil leaves are wilting and drooping before you water them, and after that they’ll spring back to life and continue to grow.
My little basil plant in the kitchen is now 3 months old, and twice its original size.
It’s easy to do the same thing over and over and complain about the lack of results, but maybe instead we should go in search of that one piece of information that changes the game.