Trader Joe’s Sweet Basil

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And there it was on display outside the entrance to Trader Joe’s for just $2.99. Into my basket it went and now the Sweet Basil is living happily in a 3-liter recycled bottle. The bottle planter will be around long after the 1-gallon plastic grower pot is dropped in the recycling trash.

It took a bit of root pruning to get it into the bottle planter but that’s no big deal. I learned long ago that a sub-irrigation planter acts like an IV, delivering the precise amount of water based on the plants past water usage. Many times I've cut 1/3 to 1/2 the root ball of a plant before installing it in a sub-irrigation planter without the plant even blinking.

There’s no way that primitive top watering methods will produce such evenly distributed moisture throughout the root system—always remembering to never add so much water that it rises to the surface.

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