🌿Growing🌿
Mint Plants
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Mentha, also known as mint , is a strong fragranced, green-leafed plant. There are around 7500 varieties of mentha, some of which, are edible. It is used for recipes, teas, seasoning, a natural animal repellant for other plant or to be eaten straight up! It is also extremely easy to grow and often used by beginner gardeners (along with other herbs). This is because it grows rapidly with little assistance and also why it is considered an invasive species. While you can start from the seed, you can also propagate or buy the plant from the store. For my mint plants, I decided to propagate them.
- - First, I started off with fresh mint cuttings and cut the petiole as close to the stem as possible.
- - I then placed each one of them into a glass vase or cup so I was able to see its growth.
- - Before planting them, I would cutt of the smaller petioles and placed them into water so that I would have more plants to work with.
- - After a couple days, I started to see roots growing! I would replace the water if it was a littler murky and cut off any brown pieces to make sure that it was clean and healthy.
- - After around a couple weeks, I planted some of the larger plants (some grew up to two feet high!) into soil so that they would become voluminous.
- - As they are growing in the soil, I am making sure to keep the dirt moist and give them an adequate amount of sun.