It's hot this weekend - after a brief first Spring we are skipping second Spring and going straight to Summer. It's beautiful, blue and hot and today, at least, the poison wind seems to have died down. I've spent the morning ripping up all the weeds that appear to have exploded in the last week. …
Mint
Mentha spicata
How to sow mint: Direct seed indoors or outside
Sun requirement for mint: Plant in Partial Sun
Mint has been planted 48 times by Growstuff members.
Mint is a perennial herb with a distinctive taste. It's stems are square-shaped and it has pink, purple, or white flowers. Peppermint, ginger mint, and large apple mint are hybrids of mint. Mint is often grown in pots to prevent it from overtaking the garden with its invasive, spreading rhizome root structure. It's leaves are most aromatic before the plant flowers and can be used fresh, dried, or frozen. Mint's strongly scented leaves confuse the pests of carrots, tomatoes, alliums, and brassicas, and deter flea beetles.
Predictions
Perennial
living more than two yearsFirst harvest expected
5 weeks after plantingHeight
60cmSpread
25cmRow Spacing
35cmCompanions
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Mint crops
Mint plantings
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Planted from
Harvested for
Varieties
apple mint

Asian mint
Australian mint

bergamot mint
Corsican mint

garden mint

peppermint

spearmint
water mint

wild mint
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What people are saying about mint
Coming together
by shawnacscott,
This weekend I had two full days to really focus on the yard, and I made the most of it. With the intermittent help of several others over the course of the weekend, I got both easement planter boxes filled with compost and soil, cleaned up and weeded the alley, got the stump pulled from the coni…
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Pūhā for dinner
by shiny,
There are so very many edible weeds in our garden.
Pūhā galore of course - which can we draped over roasting meat (too much work) or steamed to remove the bitterness and then pretend it's spinach for eggs bene. It's been "what's for dinner" in our suburb s…
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How to grow mint
Grown for: leaf (8)
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Mint harvests
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shiny harvested not specified.
over 4 years ago.
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about 5 years ago.
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about 5 years ago.
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