Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 23 May 2024

How to keep plants green, and fruit trees - productive?

🌻 How to keep plants green, and fruit trees - productive?

😺 SUNSHINE SuperFood - Micro-element Plant Booster does the job and adds to your plants' diet all necessary elements that may be lacking in poor soils.

SUNSHINE SuperFood has been a proven remedy in commercial crops.

‼️ Do your plants ever get the following problems? Sunshine Superfood will fix thems all:

  • ❇️ Flowers are small or not fragrant? ✔️

  • ❇️ Mishapen, small fruit or no fruiting? ✔️

  • ❇️ Poor root growth? ✔️

  • ❇️ Pale or yellow leaves, die backs, curled leaves, slow growth? ✔️

And much, much more! Don't let your plants starve!



🎥 Sunshine Superfood results in sunflower fields of Ukraine, video from a drone we donated 💪🇺🇦

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Date: 24 Jul 2024

How to grow your own Pepper plants

Piper sarmentosum - Vietnamese Pepper, Lalot leaves wraps

Piper sarmentosum - Vietnamese Pepper, Lalot leaves wraps

Piper nigrum - Black Pepper

Piper nigrum - Black Pepper

Piper auritum - Root Beer Plant, False Kava-Kava

Piper auritum - Root Beer Plant, False Kava-Kava

Piper betle - Betel leaf

Piper betle - Betel leaf

Piper longum - Indian Long Pepper, Pippali, Bengal Peppe

Piper longum - Indian Long Pepper, Pippali, Bengal Peppe

🔥 How to grow your own Pepper plants. Five most valuable 'Pipers'.

ℹ️ Leafy Pepper plants - Pipers - are a source of black pepper and many other "peppery" flavors. These plants come from the Piperaceae family and are used as a spice for their pungent, peppery flavor. Don't confuse them with with Capsicum peppers, such as bell and chili peppers.
  • 🔻Piper sarmentosum - Vietnamese Pepper, Lalot: it is eaten raw in salads or cooked with other greens or dishes, or wrap meats and cook in oven or on stove or grill. It is used medicinally in India and SE Asia. The root is also chewed with Betel Nut as a tonic and medicine. The leaves are used as food (food wraps) in Vietnam.
  • 🔻 Piper nigrum - Black Pepper: While black and white pepper were already known in antiquity, but green pepper (and even more, red pepper) is a recent invention. Pungent and aromatic. The pungency is strongest in white pepper and weakest in green pepper, while black and green pepper are more aromatic than the white one. Moderate growing vine that can be grown on a trellis. Prefers shade to semi-shade.
  • 🔻 Piper auritum - Root Beer Plant, False Kava-Kava: close relative of Piper methysticum (Kava-Kava) and probably has some similar tonic effects. It is used for its spicy aromatic scent and flavor, liken to root beer, or to anise-clove. Huge leaves can grow over a foot long. The leaves are used for flavoring, as wrappings for meats and tamales.
  • 🔻 Piper betle - Betel leaf: very popular Indian spice with medicinal properties. Chewed with Betel Nut as a tonic and medicine. Great for wrapping food (similar to grape leaves).
  • 🔻 Piper longum - Indian Long Pepper, Pippali, Bengal Pepper: edible and medicinal plant used as spice and in traditional Chinese medicine. Fruit used as a spice and seasoning. It has sweeter and less pungent taste than Black pepper. Highly valued medicinal plant used to treat respiratory infections, stomachache, bronchitis, cough, and much more.

Learn more:
📚 Vietnamese Pepper - Lalot food wraps BBQ recipe
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Date: 5 Sep 2024

Join us this Saturday for Fall Plant Market

September 7, 9 am - 4 pm

September  7,  2024  -  SATURDAY  -  Fall  Plant  Market

Join us this Saturday, September 7, for our exciting Fall Plant Market!

This Event will be featuring the largest selection of flowering and fruiting plants! Get unbeatable deals with plants starting at just $2, $5, and $10. Plus, enjoy a free plant with every purchase, and if you're one of the first 25 guests to spend $50, you'll receive a special gift bag!

Our plants have grown big and beautiful over the summer, so don't miss this chance to fill your yard at fantastic prices. Bring friends and family, and let our friendly PeopleCats guide you around the garden. We look forward to seeing you there!

Highlights of the event:

30% OFF online prices, one day only! (excluding 15 gallon material and rare plants)
Gift bags - for first 25 customers with $50 order
$2, $5 and $10 plants
Raffle
Free plant with any purchase as a token of our appreciation

Event discounts valid at both locations:

Ft Myers Garden Center: 13890 Orange River, Ft Myers, FL
Sebring B-Farm: 9100 McRoy Rd, Sebring, FL

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Date: 27 Sep 2024

Hurricane Helene update: we are safe and shipping on schedule!

Hurricane Helene update: we are safe and shipping on schedule!

🐱 Hurricane Helene update: we are safe and shipping on schedule!



✨ We want to thank everyone who reached out with their concerns and well wishes. We're happy to let you know that we are safe and doing well! As with any hurricane in Florida, predicting the exact path and impact is always uncertain until the last moment. Fortunately, we were spared from the worst of Hurricane Helene's effects. While we had a few trees come down and some broken branches, our team is already hard at work cleaning up.

👍 All of our plants are in great condition, looking beautiful, and ready to ship to their new homes. Rest assured: all orders are being shipped on schedule!

🌳 Re-Leaf Discount for Gardens Affected by Hurricane Damage:

😫 Having lived and grown plants in Florida for many years, we understand the heartbreak of losing beloved trees and plants to the unpredictable forces of Mother Nature. We've experienced these losses many times, and the aftermath can often bring frustration and sadness. But don't give up! The great news is that everything grows quickly in Florida's climate!

❤️ We're here to support you as you rebuild your garden, offering help to replace the plants that didn't survive. With time, your garden will flourish again, even more beautiful than before. Life goes on, and so do gardens!

🕺 To help, we're offering an additional 10% off your $100 order; it goes on top of automatic 5% for $100 orders, making it 15% off! Simply apply this code at checkout:

GREENAGAIN
Min order $100, excluding S/H. Exp. 10/11/24.

💖 Stay Safe!

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Date: 12 Nov 2024

Why getting bigger plants in bigger pots are a better choice than smaller ones

Why getting bigger plants in bigger pots are a better choice than smaller ones

🏝 Why getting bigger plants in bigger pots are a better choice than smaller ones



Stronger Roots: Bigger pots give roots more room to spread, making them stronger and healthier.
Easier to Establish: These plants adjust more quickly when planted, making them easier to care for.
Faster Growth: Plants will grow faster once planted in your garden, as their larger root systems help them absorb nutrients and water more effectively.
Better Resilience: Larger plants can handle stress, like temperature changes or less watering, better than smaller ones.

🍀 Choosing a plant in 3-7 gallon pot means a healthier, faster-growing plant with less work needed, than for 1 gal plant.
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