Heat and Sun Tolerant Herbs || Tropical Herbs for your Garden || Herbs for your Food Forest Garden
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- 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.
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Which one of the herbs I mentioned are you going to try growing? Let me know down below.
Our Tropical Soil I have all the herbs and more you mentioned minus the Cuban Oregano.
Lemongrass - we use for soup base (chicken soup, tum yum soup, etc) and marinade. We usually we cut the leaves all the way to the start of the stalk. Tie up the leaves in small bundle (size it up acording to the food you will be preparing in the future) and freeze. The stalks, we cut them into 3-4 inch sections and freeze.
Culantro - we grow them to eat as a side dish along with other veggies such as cucumber, raddish, Thai or Lemon basil mostly with soup/noodle (pho) dishes or Asian beef or chicken salad (meat, toasted rice, chili flakes, lime juice, fish sauce, mix).
Garlic chives - we grow these with coriander. These are eaten with above dishes. Garlic chives are best used with fresh spring rolls.
We grow the following basils below and never let them go to flower unless we need their seeds for the following year. Basils are meant to be picked (pinch off new growth for culinary purpose) every few weeks to bring in new growth.
Thai Basil (served at most Asian restuarants)
Lemon Basil
Purple Ruffles Basil
Holy Basil
Dark Opal Basil
I love the green and purple foliages these basils.
Our herb & veggie gardens:
1. Basils
2. Wild pepper leaf (aka Thai pepper leaf)
3. Garlic chives
4. Lemongrass
5. Vietnamese mint aka Vietnamese coriander
6. Culantro
7. Thai chilis
8. Jalepenos
9. Thyme
10. Green spinach beans (Asian long beans)
11. Cucumbers
12. Thai eggplants
13. Garlic
14. Sorrels
15. Mints (grown in containers)
Wow! You have quite a collection! Thank you for all the information on how you use the herbs.
I have Cuban oregano. It is in full sun, in a big sprawling bunch. I also have garlic chives, which have been going about three years now and I bought a pot of chadon beni (culantro) yesterday.
That’s really interesting and you explain it simply and well! Thank you for giving me the information I was looking for.
Thank you for watching! I am glad you found it helpful.
I’m growing Cuban Oregano.
We use it to season food and also to make tea for colds.
Those are great uses for the Cuban oregano!
Very good ! So many things you can grow in the tropical areas 😊
lemon grass grow in hot deserts too .. i grew it in Dubai, where tempreatures can reach 51 degrees celcius
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.
My aunt has it going in a pot. The clip I showed of a culantro plant getting ready to flower was of her plants. I am going to attempt to do the same thing with my little plants. There are a lot of herbs that do so well in our climate. I think more of us should be growing them because they are really easy to grow. I do, however, want to experiment with the northern herbs a little. I am going to be growing some more common herbs. My thought was that during them summer they would die back a bit and the hardier tropical herbs would do better. While in the winter the tropical herbs might slow down a bit and the temperate herbs would do better.
Happy that I randomly came across this
Me too!
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!
Thank you for watching! That is great that you are spreading those basil seeds! If you cannot find a culantro plant locally then you can search online for a seed packet. They start easily from seed.
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)
Thanks for sharing!
@ranikhrisna6763 are the herbs you planted in full sun?
@@regaguirre1 they can be planted in partial shade. if you grow them in full sun, they will grow faster
loved all your info.. taking notes! excited to grow them all especially lemongrass.
Thank you! I am glad you liked it :)
Thanks for the information. Beautifully delivered.
Thank you! I am glad you liked it.
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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
Yes the sun is rough! In my little front door herb garden there is a lot of shade. I have been able to grow some rosemary, dill, and Italian oregano. I tried growing thyme but it just dried up and died. Holy Basil has also done well. Regular italian basil hasn't.
Hi Melanie, are your Rosemary, Dill and Thyme still doing ok? I live in Singapore which is one degree north of the equator (think border of Venezuela/Brazil) and I want to grow the Mediterranean herbs but they don’t do well.
What does well in Singapore is Thai Basil, Lemon Basil, Sweet potato. I have some jalapeños but there is only so much of that I can grow. I was thinking of adding a citrus tree (Lemon or calamansi) then some of the plants you have mentioned like aji cachucha peppers, Ethiopian kale or Ethiopian spinach. Do you think these will do well?
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!
I think its great you are looking to get into gardening. It can be difficult to find organic products in Home Depot. Some of your local plant nurseries might have organic plants and soil for you. However, I think it's better to grow something than nothing. If all you can find is inorganic plants then go for it. I have purchased inorganic plants many times before and just grow them organically. A lot of the seeds I buy aren't certified organic either.
Your video is well done thank you
Thank you!
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?
That is great! It grows so easily. I will add the lemongrass video to my list of videos to make for sure. :)
I notice Cuban oregano doesn’t have any pests. So it can be used as a pest deterrent when planted near other plants!
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.
I think you could probably grow these but they might not thrive. I am not too familiar with these though. There are many tropical and medicinal herbs too that would probably grow much better with very little care. But I would give it a shot anyways if I were you! :)
You know anything about growing lavender in the Caribbean? I am considering in a pot...
I am not to familiar with growing lavender. I would think that it can probably grow but it might not thrive like it would in a climate it prefers more. Maybe you could grow it as an annual during the cooler months.
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
I got seeds from aunt who had a plant that was setting seeds. Once you grow it and let it go to seed it never stops coming back. You can find seeds for it online on Etsy or eBay. Sometimes I have them for sale in my Etsy store. www.etsy.com/shop/OurTropicalSoil
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?
I am not really a fan of container gardening. The only things I have grown permanently in containers is mint and sea purslane because they are vigorous and can take over other plants. My soil is sandy but it is high in organic matter, which is why it looks black. I would recommend learning how to improve your native soil. On youtube look up "Fix sandy soil using weeds" by natural farmer. Pete Kanaris and David the Good also have videos about how to improve sandy soil in Florida. Organic matter in soil is what gives soil the black color and it is basically decomposed organic material. You can increase organic matter in many different ways. I will list some here. Cover cropping, mulching (with straw, leaves, natural wood chips, anything really), chop and drop. Improving soil takes time but you will be surprised at how quickly you can improve your soil. One of the best ways I have found is to sign up for a free load of wood chips. I use chipdrop.com. Once you have a ton of wood chips spread them thickly (6 in) in your gardena and as they decompose the soil will get better. If you do this every year then after few years your soil will be much better. Hope this helped. If you have more questions email me at ourtropicalsoil@gmail.com or reach out to me on Instagram @ourtropicalsoil.
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.
The heat is rough but I think the Thai basil would be able to withstand it. I am not sure about the jalapeño. It could be that the basil is getting root bound in the pot. For the most part plants tend to do much better when growing in the ground because of the limited root systems in pots. I am going to list some plants that do well for me in the summer. Sweet potato, aji dulce/cachucha, African blue basil, thai pepper leaf, lemongrass, cuban oregano, aloe, garlic chives, culantro, katuk, longevity spinach, Egyptian spinach, Lagos spinach, tindora, everglades tomato (sometimes), moringa, sea purslane. There are more plants that also do well but I haven't grown them myself yet.
@@OurTropicalSoil I'm going to try putting it on a bigger pot.. How do you deal with aphids and brown small ants?
infinitewonder305 For aphids I basically just get the hose and spray the bottom of the leaves and the stems of the plants. This knocks the aphids off the plant. I’ve also heard that since the aphids have their mouths stuck to the plant their body actually gets ripped from their head with the hose. So they die. Idk if that’s true or not. The ants farm the aphids and will keep brining them back sometimes. Other times just a couple sprays with the hose is all you need. If it’s a constant issue then every couple days I give the plant a good spray with the hose.
infinitewonder305 I have ants but the ants are normally only on the plants because of aphids. There are barriers that you can wrap the stem of the plant with to prevent ants from getting on it. However I have only seen this done for woody stems and not green ones. It could end up messing your plant up so I would be careful wrapping anything around the stem. I’ve wrapped duct tape around the trunk of fruit trees a couple inches off the group. I put the sticky side out and then the ants get stuck on the the tape or they just won’t walk over the tape and they leave.
If jalapenos grow in Texas with the extreme heat, I am sure it can survive in a tropical place...correct me if wrong.