Remember to prune the leaves when planting mint

Mint is a very popular herb plant. You can smell a cool and refreshing fragrance as long as you rub the leaves gently with your fingers. This smell can refresh our mind and calm down our mood. The more slender the leaves are, the more refreshing they smell. Mint belongs to perennial herbaceous plants. It is green through all four seasons and easy to take care of, but it really needs enough sunlight and water.

Mint doesn’t fear hot weather; you can place it directly in the west window during hot summer. But if you don’t give it enough water to absorb, its leaves will droop, and the stems will be weak without any energy. At that time, you should water them immediately, and then it will be upright and exuberant again within only half day.

Planting mint will let you feel a sense of achievement, because it has a strong growing power and will grow taller every day, or new leaves and stems will appear, which makes you feel life is always full of hopes. But if you indulge it to grow, you will soon find that the leaves cover the sunlight each other, the lower leaves can’t grow well, and the stems droop because of overloading.

It is suitable for watching and making tea

It is better to prune the leaves once a month, help it to 「cut some hair」. You don’t need to mind the shape, but the quantity of leaves can’t less than half of the original. And also try to make every stem exposure to the sunlight. Often pruning and fertilizing it with 「long-term foliage fertilizer」 can make the mint become healthier and its foliage become luxuriant.

Holland Mint is the most common mint, also called spearmint. Nick, the shop manager of the garden store 「Talk with Herb」said spearmint with high practicability can be used for making tea or mixing with wine, eating with salad or help getting rid of the oil from the chicken soup. Cut 8cm mint inclusive of stem and leaves, place it into hot water, and can be drunk directly. If you want to drink ice mint tea, you can mix the tea with ice, which also produces fragrance.

Julia, the director of 「Julia Garden---Herb House」, recommends that cut about 10cm lemon thyme, and then add it into 100c.c hot water with a few pieces of mint and stevia, the taste will be better.

Catnip

Catnip, which also called Nepeta fordii, attracts bees if planted in the garden, prevents vegetables from being damaged by beetles if planted beside vegetables. Put its leaves into the toys, the cat will play more happily. Some cats will eat the mint directly.

Chocolate Mint

Chocolate mint can be used for making coffee or dessert. Does it smell like chocolate? Most the children said it does.

Nepeta hederacea (Money Mint)
Nepeta hederacea, a kind of medicinal herbs with less refreshing fragrance, is diuretic.

Apple Mint

The leaf margin of apple mint is dentiform, and creamy in color. Apple mint has a soft fragrance of apple.

Swiss Mint

Swiss mint is an important material of Swiss lozenges. It smells super cool and refreshing.

The division propagation method of mint

1. Cut 10cm mint. The stem can’t be too slender.
2. Put it into the water, avoid direct sunshine in the first week, but can be place in the sun in the second week. It will grow several 3cm roots about 2 weeks later.
3. Plant the mint with roots in the soil.

Instructions of planting mint

Location: Balcony, roof
Sunshine: Half sunshine to full sunshine
Water: Water it when the soil is dry. The mints planted in five-inch basin needs to water once in the morning and once at night.
Fertilization: The mints planted in five-inch basin needs 10 tiny organic fertilizers every month.

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