Growing And Taming Mint

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-eydlSYtD64EYJ5Q5uschLcxsRBARXcpl6sXbPhp-1T_MTvoPe_Z-CifWPqWwMeC0wcylM0mQe4QGmq363igc30MaeeBFUIUoEZKbul8z0RCGC_xSAZ9GEWbchXCPytOcI7UD7pKb0Ms/s1600/Sidebar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-eydlSYtD64EYJ5Q5uschLcxsRBARXcpl6sXbPhp-1T_MTvoPe_Z-CifWPqWwMeC0wcylM0mQe4QGmq363igc30MaeeBFUIUoEZKbul8z0RCGC_xSAZ9GEWbchXCPytOcI7UD7pKb0Ms/s1600/Sidebar.jpg" width="430" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Mint is a staple in my herb garden. It is such a versatile  plant.  </div><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">It smells fresh and tastes even better! My favorite way to use mint it to put a couple of springs in my water. YUMMY!</div><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Here's some tips to help you grow and tame the invasive mint...</div><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a name="more"></a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHKeTiakXH7xHqb_or4RR-YWc7A_DcGswPu0zixTYz1Ya-EfUCrN4jMttIe1uvDSwGF1_SyTFjy-bFgFOP5KK-X8H88XOwwI_DMUrjkZZCkYSZ5OB_7I_R1J2su81T6Hn_3tlbwZYOOw4/s1600/IMG_6604.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHKeTiakXH7xHqb_or4RR-YWc7A_DcGswPu0zixTYz1Ya-EfUCrN4jMttIe1uvDSwGF1_SyTFjy-bFgFOP5KK-X8H88XOwwI_DMUrjkZZCkYSZ5OB_7I_R1J2su81T6Hn_3tlbwZYOOw4/s640/IMG_6604.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">When I pick flowers I usually tuck a little mint in my arrangements. Flower's abound indoors too at StoneGable. Here are some of the fruits of my early morning stroll to the garden. Can you see how pretty the mint looks. Too bad you can't smell it!</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLpBDlaNysfN3-wcRu7AXkdWly5Ix3M68Ervn-J1v1UvAhce0AKkL5RHhp08F_ew0xvq0wvVj-cDKeMWDxn15OlFHieQIPgfzhTfPAD0kZURQWcWrEdKpksjUtQXgQ6PMCdPPY91AzU6o/s1600/IMG_6649.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLpBDlaNysfN3-wcRu7AXkdWly5Ix3M68Ervn-J1v1UvAhce0AKkL5RHhp08F_ew0xvq0wvVj-cDKeMWDxn15OlFHieQIPgfzhTfPAD0kZURQWcWrEdKpksjUtQXgQ6PMCdPPY91AzU6o/s640/IMG_6649.JPG" width="428" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Mint is the smell of fresh... and clean ... and sweet! Just rub a mint leave between your fingers and that fabulous familiar fragrance wafts through the air. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">For me, it brings back memories of my childhood. Mint grew in wild abandon at the side of my grandmother's home. When the windows were open the whole kitchen would fill up with the smell of mint! Glorious!</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1OJUzpX8zM_eUDuhPaAUC8DsjJraiq3M7JvBlzln1mGY-DXOlLIdFHUxLs6GerjLdylCjGV88cyQ2B3lu32RJjkVroLgvkQASTlWQWypEqKM38gRM5y5QNtOwMFwbFN2GqjNkUr-BHw0/s1600/IMG_6609.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1OJUzpX8zM_eUDuhPaAUC8DsjJraiq3M7JvBlzln1mGY-DXOlLIdFHUxLs6GerjLdylCjGV88cyQ2B3lu32RJjkVroLgvkQASTlWQWypEqKM38gRM5y5QNtOwMFwbFN2GqjNkUr-BHw0/s640/IMG_6609.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Now for the down side... and there is definitely a down side! </div><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Mint is invasive! It is bossy and pushy. It doesn't like to live with other plants. I learned about it's bad behavior the hard way!!!! I planted mint in a perenial bed in my previous home and it took over the bed and side of the hill!  Mint puts out roots called "runners" and they eventually form leaves and make another plant. And they are prolific!  It took 3 years of weeding and digging to get rid of this nuisance! </div><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">When I moved into StoneGable I did not plant mint. But I missed having it as part of my summer herbs!</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">O<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">ne summer </span><span style="color: black;">I</span> planted several varieties of mint in big pots and put them on my patio. They did beautifully. It was like putting an unruly child in a playpen!</div><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglhWHeCBETVkJUyk6W7Aid5Cq3tNMlMjVlzV7lAAYe2ruvtkw5DXZX6wWIUcCwZaM0iyM7ft5gfVQsJaltIjXTqw6XTsvxHBtdMsKN-OG5AHeR1wGIzL-M3NDFI75NS-BVV0ajxHu1JtM/s1600/IMG_6631.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglhWHeCBETVkJUyk6W7Aid5Cq3tNMlMjVlzV7lAAYe2ruvtkw5DXZX6wWIUcCwZaM0iyM7ft5gfVQsJaltIjXTqw6XTsvxHBtdMsKN-OG5AHeR1wGIzL-M3NDFI75NS-BVV0ajxHu1JtM/s640/IMG_6631.JPG" width="428" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">It wasn't long before I thought to sink a terracotta pot in the ground to contain the roots from spreading. This was not an original idea, gardeners have long been containing mint this way. And it worked too!</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSfMFAltoDC3nBTPWL2pf7f9nMPWGlRSX8cWCGfxWUYupr07iU_UXlaUNga41nmy8oha4RF8jJqpktpk57XpYzmf7ONLQNrlx2PPYMDNGFPqSwFPqWs04EfgCUcyIZuzMKaUcFH2OknP0/s1600/IMG_6615.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSfMFAltoDC3nBTPWL2pf7f9nMPWGlRSX8cWCGfxWUYupr07iU_UXlaUNga41nmy8oha4RF8jJqpktpk57XpYzmf7ONLQNrlx2PPYMDNGFPqSwFPqWs04EfgCUcyIZuzMKaUcFH2OknP0/s640/IMG_6615.JPG" width="428" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">f you don't have </span>mint in your garden  I hope you will try this technique! It's so easy! They are hardy plants that, once contained, live perfectly happily planted with other herbs or flowers.</div><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Planting Mint:</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Choose a pot at least 4 times bigger than your mint- it will fill in the pot in no time and you don't want to repot each year.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Dig a hole bigger than the terracotta pot. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">The pot's rim should be above ground level when potted.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Put the terracotta pot into the hole and backfill hole with dirt.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Put a flat stone to cover the bottom hole in the pot amd partially fill the bottom of the pot with potting soil.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Plant mint in pot and fill in with potting soil.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Water in well.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhcgGTrJDvXDxbi1vI8sZWCsPlefie7XKypizuv-ckKi-iHUpJbGzyD6wVjmoSZ0A98NKq59S0L34aA_KyM9jNlhUPPYbNcjUrA3SUDqTMWb2xCyIaZk19-zhCsWsu1jQbwkFGBAUq2_Q/s1600/IMG_6602.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhcgGTrJDvXDxbi1vI8sZWCsPlefie7XKypizuv-ckKi-iHUpJbGzyD6wVjmoSZ0A98NKq59S0L34aA_KyM9jNlhUPPYbNcjUrA3SUDqTMWb2xCyIaZk19-zhCsWsu1jQbwkFGBAUq2_Q/s640/IMG_6602.JPG" width="428" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Mint will grow vigorously and can be cut often.  As it starts to flower,  pinch off the flower tops. It will last all summer long! And it will stay in it's own little space!</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0WMl4E9h85jCz5j-jPhmgdn4LsoQqm9Rllblgj9uhJrf0dRKp9H-vg65-6ron8ucsC4B7N-lxgzHDR76LiYFyZlCktNVYu29c7cNGonaHROWbdllPgQoPZYjWq3CuxtOnx7U1dUEJCJQ/s1600/IMG_6621.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0WMl4E9h85jCz5j-jPhmgdn4LsoQqm9Rllblgj9uhJrf0dRKp9H-vg65-6ron8ucsC4B7N-lxgzHDR76LiYFyZlCktNVYu29c7cNGonaHROWbdllPgQoPZYjWq3CuxtOnx7U1dUEJCJQ/s640/IMG_6621.JPG" width="428" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">And when it has given you it's best, it will quietly retire for the winter. But, be looking the next spring~ mint will wake up and be more beautiful than the year before!</div><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Just make sure you dig up you pot and check it out for any cracks. 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Growing And Taming Mint

Mint is a staple in my herb garden. It is such a versatile  plant.   It smells fresh and tastes even better! My favorite way to use mint it ...

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