Supermarket Herbs

Hi all,

I've just planted two mint plant pots from a well known Supermarket into a ceramic pot. The pot is in an area of the garden, which has sunlight for most of the day.

If I buy other potted herbs from 'a well known supermarket', will they be ok and thrive once re-potted?

Thanks, Nick

 

I will be interested to know how your supermarket herbs get on now re-potted. I haven't ever done that myself, I always buy herbs from a nursery or garden centre.
Keep us posted how they do, Nick!

 

I'm sure the mint will be O.K. Be interested if Basil etc. does allright. I find this to be a fussy plant

 

I have a beautiful Basil Plant that I bought from a supermarket and repotted it 2 years ago. It's still doing very well in my window seal in the kitchen where I take a few leaves out every week when I need it for cooking! The smell is lovely too.

 

My basil, which I think was given to me as a cutting, has spread all over the place. I can't keep up with it. I find chives are a lovely plant to grow in the garden in their own right, as well as being really useful for summer salads. I don't think I've bought herbs from a supermarket, I usually get them either from cuttings kindly given me, or bought from a nursery or GC.

At the moment, I have chives, basil, parsley, sage, mint and, um, I think that's it. I do have monarda (bergamot) which I think is classed as a herb, although I don't use it as such. It's in my cuttings garden.

 

Hi Nick, I did exactly that! But I put my mint straight into the ground with some good soil and it's going great guns :D good luck with yours

 

Mint grows where other herbs fear to tread and it's wonderful with lamb and peas

 

The only difficulty I've found is that when planted out, the growth is a bit soft and sappy, and some die back usually happens. I haven't tried inside, but have successfully planted out parsley, coriander, and dill. I know they are easy to grow from seed, but the little supermarket pots are really cheap and will form a nice clump.

 

The mint is going v. strong .... so far so good.

Nick

 

Just bought some parsley from A Well-Known Supermarket, (no, not Tesco) but I don't hold out much hope, parsley's a bit difficult......
I do sometimes buy herbs from their Garden Centre Department, but usually I buy them from Jekka's Herb Farm.
Just off home to do some more planting!!