I potted my water-rooted mint next to my basil just to save space: a month later, when I tipped the pot out, I understood what had gone on underneath
A month of sharing a pot taught a hard lesson about aggressive plant behavior. When the container tipped over, the basil’s fate was sealed—suffocated by an underground network of mint rhizomes that had quietly colonized every inch of available soil while the surface told no visible story of the battle below.