experiment: repotting "living herbs" from supermarket

[beavis]

Living herbs are a big deal here in southern california. Buy the herb, complete with root plug, snip it and chuck it in the fridge.

I bought some chives and marjoram and decided to see how well they would do if I transplanted them from their supermarket plastic prisons into my hoophouse.

Pics follow...

 

[Hattie the Hen]

Hi beavis

I do it all the time but here in the UK ours come planted in pots with open-topped plastic sleeves round them. I find they are fine once you get them over the initial shock of coming out of their giant greenhouses & into the real world. I keep mine in little portable greenhouses (in their original pots) for a few days. Then I put them into my raised beds oy big pots etc. I still keep them covered at this point, later when I see they have established well I remove the mini-greenhouse. I did very well with a huge crop of chives which I needed in a hurry to feed to 2 hatches of chicks (very beneficial to feed to them finely chopped chives in the tirst few weeks apparantly: advice from my chicken guru). I also had a wonderful patch of supermarket parsley. Not so successful with thyme as the plants were too soft. Basil has worked well for me but both coriander & dill were flops( literally)

Good luck with your experiment. You are lucky as your weather is milder than mine I think! Deep snow predicted for tonight......!! I always chop back the chives by half their length on planting out -- they recover faster & romp away into stronger plants !


:rose Hattie :rose

 

[lesa]

I finally broke down and bought one of the plants in a pot from the grocery store. I was really hoping for fresh garden taste- and was sadly disappointed. Very little flavor at all. Counting the days till spring and fresh basil from the garden!!!

 

[ducks4you]

I don't know why the just don't sell potted herb plants in the grocery store. They used to sell them that way about 10 years ago at Meijer's, a Midwest "SuperWalmart style" grocery store. I bought a really pretty wide-leafed sage plant that flourished in my garden for a few years, then fizzled out.