A windowsill of herbs is a garden you can keep alive
Start small, cut often, and let the failures teach you.
People kill houseplants and conclude they have no talent for growing. Herbs are the gentle way back in: cheap, fast, and forgiving of a missed watering.
The counterintuitive rule is to cut them hard and often. A basil plant left alone gets leggy and sad; one you pinch every few days grows bushy and generous.
Six weeks of a windowsill pot teaches more about growing than any book, mostly by letting you fail cheaply and try again.