March 21, 2016 Kenneth Sanchez

Metropolitan Herb Garden Brings Fresh Herbs to Wilton Manors

Eat fresh and live healthy, with herbs grown in the Metropolitan Herb Garden. Not only can you pick your own herbs for cooking, but the garden will be consistently replenished so you can eat fresh all year long.

Edible gardening specialist Karin Fields will be installing the herb garden. Over the last 15 years, Karin has become the authority on growing herbs and vegetables in South Florida. She’s even published the first and only handbook on organic vegetable gardening in tropical weather.

For the herb garden at Metropolitan, Karin will install three 4’ x 8’ beds, which will grow oregano, parsley, dill, thyme, mojito, spearmint, chives, and rosemary. The garden will also contain culantro, instead of cilantro, since cilantro tends to get bitter in the Florida heat.

While basil has long been a staple in herb gardens, the resurgence of an old basil destroying disease — basil downy mildew — has ruled it out for our garden for now. If we planted basil, it would not only be inedible, but the disease would spread to the mint since they’re in the same family. Though there will be no basil this year, we’re hopeful a new basil cultivar will be developed in 2017, enabling us to grow basil then.

With an herb garden, fitness studio, yoga studio, and massage room, Metropolitan has created the perfect environment for healthy living. To learn more, contact us today.