Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

🌿 Longevity and Okinawa Spinach

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🛒 Add Logevity Spinach to your kitchen windowsill

📚 Learn more:
✦ Gynura procumbens in Plant Encyclopedia

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🌱 9 tropical vegetables to grow indoors, or how to have garden-fresh produce all year

Cold weather does not have to mean the end of homegrown food. According to Southern Living, vegetables like lettuce, carrots, and radishes can be grown indoors during winter. The downside is that most of these are annuals - you harvest once, then start over.

Tropical vegetables work differently. Many are perennial, long-living plants that grow well in containers and keep producing for years. Grow them indoors year-round, move them outside in summer for extra sun and growth, then bring them back indoors before cold weather. With enough light and regular care, these plants can provide fresh harvests in every season.

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  ✅ Tips for growing tropical vegetables indoors

• 📍Place plants near a bright window or supplement with grow lights for steady growth
• 📍Use containers with good drainage and quality potting mix
• 📍Keep plants away from cold drafts and heating vents
• 📍Rotate pots and prune regularly to encourage fresh, tender growth
• 📍Feed regularly with natural Sunshine Boosters - they are formulated for edibles

✅ Tropical vegetables to grow indoors

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  🌿 Gynura procubens - Longevity Spinach, Cholesterol spinach - a fast-growing leafy green often called a superfood. The tender leaves are used fresh or lightly cooked and can be harvested repeatedly. This plant stays compact, handles containers easily, and regrows quickly after cutting.
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  🌿 Sauropus androgynus - Katuk, Tropical Asparagus. One of Southeast Asia’s most popular leafy vegetables. Katuk produces edible shoots and leaves that are cooked in soups and stews. It grows well indoors and rewards regular harvesting with constant new growth.
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  🌿 Cymbopogon citratus - Lemon grass: a tough, productive plant that adapts well to container growing. The stalks and leaves are used for teas, soups, and flavoring. Indoors, it grows more slowly but stays productive, especially when moved outdoors in summer.
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  🌿 Lippia dulcis - Aztec Sweet Herb, Sweetleaf: a low-growing herb with naturally sweet leaves. The foliage can be eaten fresh or used as a sugar substitute in teas and desserts. It stays compact, tolerates pruning, and performs well in pots indoors.
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  🌿 Piper sarmentosum - Vietnamese Pepper, Lalot: grown for its aromatic, edible leaves rather than peppercorns. The leaves are eaten fresh, cooked, or used as food wraps. This plant stays manageable indoors with light pruning.
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  🌿 Piper nigrum - Black Pepper: the true black pepper vine. Grows well indoors as a container vine with support. It prefers warm temperatures, steady moisture, and bright filtered light.
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  🌿 Piper auritum - Root Beer Plant, False Kava-Kava: close relative of Piper methysticum (Kava-Kava) known for its large, fragrant leaves with a spicy, root beer-like aroma. The leaves are used for wrapping foods and flavoring dishes. Best grown indoors with room for its bold foliage.
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  🌿 Piper betle - Betel leaf: a traditional edible and medicinal leaf used widely in Asia. The glossy leaves are harvested continuously and used fresh or as wraps. This vine grows well indoors with warmth, humidity, and a small trellis.
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  🌿 Piper longum - Indian Long Pepper, Pippali, Bengal Pepper: A tropical pepper relative grown for its elongated spice fruits and edible leaves. Slower to fruit indoors but easy to maintain as a leafy spice plant in containers with bright light and regular feeding.

Tropical vegetables make indoor gardening more rewarding because they do not stop after one harvest. With containers, light, and basic care, these plants can become long-term food producers that move seamlessly between indoors and outdoors - keeping fresh flavors within reach all year.

🛒 Explore tropical edibles, herbs and spices

📚 Learn more:

• · 5 most useful edibles for tropical garden
• · Grow your own Pepper leaves: 5 most valuable Pipers

🎥 Karkade Tea
Longevity Spinach


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🐱 Slow down

"Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you." - John De Paola

🐈📸 Cat Masyanya, a friend of Top Tropicals PeopleCats.Garden - is thinking about life.

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🍴 Patchouli tea: quick-n-fun exotic recipes

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  🔵Steep a few Patchouli leaves in hot water with honey.
• 🔵Earthy, relaxing, and perfect for winding down.

🛒 Every garden needs a fragrant Patchouli leaf

📚 Learn more:

• ▫️Pogostemon patchouli in Plant Encyclopedia
• ▫️Patchouli: more than just a pretty scent
• ▫️Researchers discover that a perfume from Ancient Rome was made of Patchouli

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🕎 Happy Hanukkah to everyone - by birth, by heart, or by friendship!

"The Hanukkah lights are symbols of a universal message - a message of freedom and tolerance." - Ronald Reagan

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🎄 Holiday Plant Market Event Mementos

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  Thank you to everyone who came out for our Holiday Plant Market!

It was a joy watching the garden fill up with familiar friends and first-time visitors all exploring, chatting, and discovering new favorites.
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  Our PeopleCats took their jobs very seriously, trotting ahead of guests, inspecting carts, and making sure no one left without the perfect plant. The whole place buzzed with good moods, warm weather, and that fun holiday energy only a tropical garden can create.
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  If you see yourself or your friends on the photos, save or forward to share the memories!

If you spot yourself or someone you know in the photos, go ahead and save them or pass them along. We hope your new plants settle in beautifully, and we look forward to seeing you back in the garden soon. Happy holidays and happy growing!
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  Check out more pictures of the Event

📱 Watch this slideshow on YouTube

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🐈🐈🐈The Prince and the Pea

"Living with me is a bit like The Princess and the Pea - I notice everything, especially when I pretend I don’t."

🐈📸 Cat Bob is quality-testing pillows at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden

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🎉PeopleCats Garden Tours

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🎄 It is almost here! December 13, 2025 - Holiday Plant Market, proudly hosted by the #PeopleCats of TopTropicals.
Our big end-of-season Plant Day. All year we grow the rare and unusual plants that will be featured at this event, and Saturday is the day they finally meet their new homes. The garden turns into a small holiday escape: fresh air, bright colors, music, snacks, and the PeopleCats greeting everyone like they have known you for years.

📱 Event discounts and specials valid at both locations:

• ✦ Ft Myers Garden Center: 13890 Orange River, Ft Myers, FL
• ✦ Sebring Farm: 9100 McRoy Rd, Sebring, FL

🎁 Learn more about this Event, Holiday deals and extras

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