Supermarket living herbs for culinary use, re-planting info

[welliesundermeballgoon]

Hi,

I noticed when in Asda that these herbs were only 50p for a pot, and I wondered if they could be transplanted into my herb bed.

I have just bought a few in the garden centre and they were iro £2 each and a lot smaller.

I have been googling and apparently you can, the pots aren't one plant they are actually lots of little seedlings...

The company who supplies Asda Co-op and Morrisons have a information sheet on their website and I thought I would link for anybody else who wanted a cheaper option!

www.lincolnshire-herbs.co.uk/planting.html

Apparently Coriander struggles but the rest should be fine!

I hope that this post helps somebody!

I did this a couple of weeks ago! I have mint, basil and coriander in a planter on my windowledge. The coriander and basil did struggle at first, but are now doing really well. Bought mine reduced from Tesco.

Thanks for the link, I was thinking the same thing earlier when I picked up some parsley reduced to 49p as a bit leggy.

I'm a novice basic gardener at best so anything which makes it easy is fine by me.

I bought a tub of reduced and badraggled looking basil the other week in Tesco, transplanted it into a bigger pot and now its needing repotted again, its shot away. Same with the mint.

They do work well, including thyme and rosemary to use as cuttings, as many herbs will not survive outdoors in British winters.

last summer I did really well with a pot of Asda basil (it was a larger pot they had on offer) and my flat leaf parsley just about survived the winter but got frazzled in this hotspell (my fault). Agree with shodatin - the hardier herbs such as thyme and rosemary do the best.

I used to always buy the expensive pots from the garden centre as I imagined they were somehow bred differently to be grown and the supermarket ones were just for eating but not true - they are a lot better than trying to grow from seed.

How on earth do you grow coriander? I bought a plant from my garden centre and put in the greenhouse. It died. I now have a supermarket one on my windowsill. How can I keep this one alive?

I have had some success with coriander from the supermarket. I potted it up into a bigger pot, using seedling compost and I feed it weekly and it's thriving. Coriander doesn't like wet feet, and as long as you don't overwater it, it should come on nicely. Mine is indoors, although I'm in the south east.

Best tip I can give you Betty is to re-pot into fresh compost - it will gain no nutrients from the supermarket pot it's in, and will die a slow death as they run out.

if you put them outside its worth realising that they need hardening off before you plant them - otherwise you may find they get eaten overnight by slugs

Thanks for the info re coriander. I did exactly the same with the 50p plants and they've all done well except the coriander which is struggling. I may have over-watered it.