"Noydb" wrote in message
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It is possible you drowned them with too much water, too little drainage.
When you replant, make certain there is a way for excess water to get out
the bottom of the pot.


The cilantro was mostly in terracotta pots, and the basil was in plastic
pots. The terracotta ones had a single drainage hole in the middle of the
bottom of the pots. The plastic pots had a lot of holes in the bottom. I'm
guessing the basil was well-drained, but the cilantro may not have been.


A foot or two isn't much leeway. It is also possible you assasinated them
with Roundup. Tiny droplets can travel a long ways and, if the plant was
as
stressed as you say, it would not have taken much to kill it.


Oops! At first, only 1 basil plant and one cilantro plant were truly dead
(beyond reviving) though another cilantro plant and one other basil plant
were near death (so for all practical purposes, were dead since I didn't
have enough skill to revive them). However, now all the basil plants are
dead and two more cilantro plants are dead. I'm, feeling very much like a
murderer. My poor baby basils are dead! I think the round-up may have
killed the first plants to die, but the others I'm not sure about. It was
almost a week before they died, and the tomato plants are still fine. The
tomatoes were not that far from the basil plants and, in fact, would have
blocked the basil from the round-up. I do have one cilantro plant left, so
I'm hoping for the best with it!

Oh well, I guess I'll have to try again!

Thanks for the reply!

rona