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Originally Posted by Laker14
Hi Y'all,
I just purchased a small plant cart for the lanai. I want to grow some fresh herbs, maybe a cherry tomato plant. Rosemary, oregano, basil, cilantro, maybe something else as well.
Are there any nurseries near TV that would have the plants already started?
Anybody reading this who has done this?
Thanks,
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Give Home Depot and Lowe's a try...they usually have a variety of herbs and veggies outside and inside....go early though as the sun and heat really wilt the plants that they have out front.
Basil, mint and thyme you can usually pick up as small plants at Publix...I had some luck with garlic chives in the ground, but the onion chives I've had trouble growing...mint just seems to get too leggy
We put the basil, rosemary and oregano in the ground...the latter two we now trim with the electric trimmer. The basil grows nicely in the ground with southern exposure. Parsley seems to get eaten by butterfly lava, so we've stopped leaving that outside. Tomatoes we grow in very large containers with a southern exposure...but put a net around them, as the bunnies will get at them.
we've also had good luck planting the tops of pineapples and the bottoms of onions (again in a southern exposure)...it'll take about `18 months for a pineapple plant to yield fruit, but when it does, it is the sweetest one that you've ever had.
happy gardening