The windowsill kitchen garden

• The bouquet thesis
• The bouquet rescue
• The light reality check + the grow-light answer
• The ten, at a glance
• The crop cards
• The harvest
• How your herbs die + succession honesty
• Regrow from scraps
• The logistics
• The starter sill
• Cut-out herb markers + your sill plan

I'm not a botanist, and I don't have 150 plants — I keep a windowsill's worth, and I've killed a few learning how (a Calathea in eleven days is how this whole thing started). When something goes wrong I go down the rabbit hole: the studies, the extension-horticulture pages, the 2am forum threads, and every horror story plant people send in on @leafjournal on TikTok. These guides are that mix — hands-on experience checked against the research, cleaned up and told straight. No lab, no sponsorships, no “trust me.” Just what actually keeps a plant alive, so yours isn't the one that learns it the hard way.