Heat and Sun Tolerant Herbs || Tropical Herbs for your Garden || Herbs for your Food Forest Garden
Heat and Sun Tolerant Herbs || Tropical Herbs for your Garden || Herbs for your Food Forest Garden
In this video I will share with you some different heat and sun tolerant herbs. All of the plants are tropical herbs that would grow great in a food forest garden.
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Growing under the heat and sun can pose some issues. Most of the conventional herbs that are sold in the supermarkets aren’t heat and sun tolerant herbs. That is why I wanted to share with you these tropical herbs for your garden. They are proven to withstand the heat and sun because I have grown them during the South Florida summer. In a mild climate, that isn’t too cold, these herbs will likely do well all year round. If you live in a colder climate then these tropical herbs can be grown during the summer.
These tropical herbs would also do well in your food forest garden. They are hardy plants that are either perennials or self-seeding annuals, so chances are you won’t have to replant them! They would especially do well in a Florida food forest.
Read more about Cuban oregano on my blog by clicking this link: https://ourtropicalsoil.com/2018/07/18/cuban-oregano-plectranthus-amboinicus/
Watch my video about Cuban oregano propagation by clicking this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhyPz71ks3g
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What do you grow your herbs and plants in? I live in the Naples area, and my dirt, is well…..really sand. Would you recommend digging up a lot of the dirt and replacing it to grow in the ground? Or are these types of tropical plants used to the dirt we have here? Or would you just recommend potting everything?
Can I buy some cuttings from you when I get set up in Puerto Rico?
Can you juice the stems of lemongrass like tiny sugar cane?
yeah living in south florida, I’m having a lot of trouble growing traditional herbs, most guides on the internet are for people living in the mid states, but here i feel like the sun is burning all my plants
Thanks for the information. Beautifully delivered.
I’m so happy to find this I live in South Florida (Broward) and have been looking for guidance. I have been having a difficult time finding Organic herbs at Home Depot do you think it matters if I’m using organic soil, Organic Fertilizer etc. I definitely won’t be using anything non organic after buying them. Thanks for the great video!
Your video is well done thank you
I have some Thai Basil in a pot but lately they look sad and yellow. I live in Miami I’m not sure if it’s the heat that is killing them and the same goes for my Jalapeno plant.
I have Cuban oregano growing 😁 my aunt has tons of them. Could u show a video of how to get new lemon grass plants from the new growths?
I’m growing Cuban Oregano.
We use it to season food and also to make tea for colds.
Happy that I randomly came across this
I will be moving to the Caribbean so I want to grow lavender, basil (which I know it can be done), borage, sage and comfrey…among other medicinal herbs.
You know anything about growing lavender in the Caribbean? I am considering in a pot…
Hi! Just came across your video and I’m amazed your growing culantro in south Florida! Where did you find it? I would like to start growing it as my cilantro didn’t take
That’s really interesting and you explain it simply and well! Thank you for giving me the information I was looking for.
loved all your info.. taking notes! excited to grow them all especially lemongrass.
Great info! I live in Cape Coral and haven’t really done anything to improve the sand, but the rosemary I planted in December seems to be doing quite well. Also, the basil I planted over a year ago in a pot flowered and went to seed. So I spread those seeds in new pots and now have a dozen plants. I will look for the Culantro plant – hoping it’s available locally!
lemon grass grow in hot deserts too .. i grew it in Dubai, where tempreatures can reach 51 degrees celcius
Which one of the herbs I mentioned are you going to try growing? Let me know down below.
Another great, informative video. I love culantro – even though it’s not technically a perennial, it does have a pretty long life span (I think I’ve heard it’s technically a biennial, lasting for two years). it’s a lot easier to keep it going as potted plant for a long time than cilantro, for snipping off a few leaves when I’m making a dish that can use that cilantro/culantro flavor and aroma. People in Florida often try and fail at growing the northern herbs, when there are delicious tropically adapted herbs like the ones in this video that do really well here.
hi, I grew some herbs you mention in the video like garlic chives and lemongrass here in hot tropical climate in indonesia. another herbs that I grow are green onion, lemon basil, mint, pandan (it has vanilla-ey, nutty fragrance, also repels mosquitoes. common use in sweet desert that has coconut milk in it. best companion)