Now that you mention it my chard is not having any insect issues this year and a few sweet basil seeds sprouted and I let them have their way. I guess I'll see if the insects continue to stay away.

The problem in the other post is leafminers. The problem here is different. The whitish areas on the leaf to the left appear to be collapsed tissue. Could have occurred due to a water shortage -- possibly hot weather? very low humidity? If that's true, the small black lesions could be a secondary infection, especially if the plants are now in a more humid environment.

thankyou guys for replying quickly! thats realy awesome! okay let me try to give more details(i'll try not to wright a novel again). when we brought the plants home we put aprox 2/3rd potting soil in the container made a hole in the middle, loosend the root ball, place in the hole, add some more potting mix and firmed lightly and gave a generous 1st watering. the pots are 8" and oh 12" high. 2 weeks ago though we started having a heat wave. when the wife and I got home from some galavanting the thai basils were all droopy i gave them a good watering and they perked up again within 1 1/2 hrs. after that is when the problems started. the pots have holes in the bottom and after i water i elevate 1 bottom side to make sure enough water drains. if you need more info just let me know! thanks :)

Seeds will only germinate and become plants if they were mature to start with. Seeds will only mature on a living plant. It's doubtful if a plant grown indoors will have reached maturity before it died, or lived long enough for any seeds to have reached maturity - but there's no harm in trying, is there? Curly parsley, like other parsleys, is a biennial. That means that it lives out its entire life cycle over 2 years. In its second year, it will produce flowers, then seeds, and those seeds take quite some time to reach maturity. No amount of watering will bring a dead plant back to life. Certain deciduous plants can LOOK dead during winter, but there is still life in the roots, and usually in the stems (branches) as well - it shuts down and goes to sleep, and will bounce back in spring - but parsley is not one of these. If parsley looks dead, it is dead. Thoroughly dead. You can grow coriander (cilantro) at any time of the year, provided the conditions provided for it are right. Because it is a very short-lived plant (about 2 weeks in my subtropical part of the world), you'll need to do successive plantings, about every 2-3 weeks. Best to allow it to self-seed (ie drop ripe seeds and go from there without any intervention on your part). Hence - best outside. To again quote a long-departed old gardener friend of mine: "God didn't make houses, and he didn't make pots, either". Which means that most plants do better planted outside in the garden. What a lot of people forget is that (a) plants usually get much bigger and healthier when planted outside; (b) indoor plants are inhibited by the amount of dirt and grease which covers their leaves (c) all plants will be stunted to some degree when planted in pots (and usually the pots will be several sizes too small!); (d)the light coming through glass windows is FILTERED light - filtering out certain rays of the sun which plants need. I suggest you use the search facility here to browse through the many posts on the herbs you mention. eg: Here is a link that might be useful: search results for 'parsley'