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I've never had problems keeping plants alive, in fact at my last job I had amazing luck with many different plants, african violets and orchids to be specific but also some other green plants as well.  I was able to get my orchid to bloom at least twice a year which is pretty amazing.  One thing I had never thought to try was growing my own plants from seeds until this last spring.  I planted some basil, some catnip and some spearmint.  The basil and the cat nip took off quickly with more heartier sprouts than the spearmint which was super tiny and delicate.  I totally underestimated the spearmint.  Because of its more delicate stature I did not transplant them into bigger pots when I did the basil and the cat nip and for that they suffered, root bound and unable to grow further.  That all changed this last weekend when I finally transplanted them and they are taking off like weeds!   The feeling that you grew a plant from a seed and it is flourishing is amazing.

Check out my basil plant.  It is starting to get it's second round of leaves bursting at the seams of the older leaves thickening the plant up even more.

Here is the catnip.  The kitties love to eat fresh catnip leaves but the buds are where it's at, my plant hasn't budded yet though.  I just recently learned how to grow and maintain catnip so I am going to need to do some pruning.

Here are the spearmint pants (and one strawberry plant on the right which isn't doing as well).  when I transplanted them a week ago they were so very tiny and now they are full on fledglings ready to give me all the fresh mint I could ever want or need.  

I want to grow some flowering plants but not sure what to embark upon next.  I'm running out of window room there and am going to have to find another window to take over.