Mint.

[Guest guest]

Awesome Pam,

Start your herb shop today. Mankind needs real herb shops.

Yes! lets trade in the fall. That would be perfect.

 

Oh and about the peppermint. It can be grown without pesticides, its

just a man-made hybrid.

 

Does anyone know if chocolate mint and

orange mint are man made or mother nature's creation???

 

~B

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Trading Post deals in seed trading and has an awesome selection.

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On 4/14/2010 9:38 AM, Pamela Tand wrote:

 

 

Bryan,

I didn't know that about Peppermint. I did find some spearmint

seeds, NOT organic. I would love to do some trade.

I am trying to do some research on harvesting the hops. I know

we just bought some hops rhizomes (sp?) for the yard. I use some with

the herbs, especially for headaches and such. My partner like to make

beer every once in awhile.

From what I'm finding is that it's better to grow from the

rhizomes and not the seeds. But either way wouldn't be best to do these

in the fall? I want to make sure it can be for optimum growing! Don't

know why I hadn't thought of harvesting them from the wild for the

yard! That would have been awesome, so much for impulse buying!

Well off to do my business plan, I found the perfect place for

my shop and at a reasonable price! Eventually besides my soaps and

stuff I want to have an herbal shop!

Pam

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AH! Synchronicity! You gotta love it.

I am re-organizing the herb patch, never mind the details.

And because I wanted to plant one of the 3x3 boxes with

different varieties of mint, I wanted to know if they would

take on each others' characteristics if planted close together.

 

In retrospect, dumb notion, since I will not be using seed

or fruit, just leaves and stems.

 

I have applemint, chocolate mint, spear mint, and peppermint,

all incredibly vigorous and invasive. So the plan is to restrict them

to one 3x3 feet square, a quarter square each. Pineapple mint is far

less invasive, and the ginger mint is still frail.

 

Anyway, Google yielded this excellent article on mints by

Conrad Richter, of the famous Ontario herbal seed house.

 

http://www.richters.com/newdisplay.cgi?page=MagazineRack/Articles/mint.html

 

Key phrase: Starting with seeds is a recipe for disappointment.

 

My mints except the applemint came from Richters.

They are so easy to clone it should be a sin to charge money

for a mint plant. Don't ninny around with seeds and find

a gardener who has what you want. They will most likely

be happy to give you some.

 

Ien in the Kootenayshttp://kootenaygarden.blogspot.comhttp://backyardbusiness.info

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I'm only writing because I didn't see this mentioned. When you plant

mints, you have to keep them well separated as they

will cross (hybridize) and you end up with just 'mint'. I have

pennyroyal planted over in our new orchard and here at the

house there is peppermint. Peppermint is very invasive. I suppose the

pennyroyal could be also, but it's just happily

making it's home throughout the lawn, which is fine. The peppermint,

however, is in a flowerbed next to my porch, so most

of it has to go (already has homes, sorry) as the bed is getting

converted to herbs. There are some major herb gardens going

in this year. Loads of medicinals as well as some culinary. I don't

trust myself well enough to wildcraft. Most pictures I

find don't have a point of reference as to size, like having a coin or

dollar bill in the picture, so I plant from seed. I wiped

out one major herb garden because I'd gotten crippled up and couldn't

tend to it. Now I'm mobile again, and replanting. The

old gardens are where the pennyroyal came from, and I still have

Mugwort, elampcapane, chives and find the oregano when

I mow the lawn. Smells sooo good. There will be a lot of calendula

and arnica being grown, have purslane growing wild

all over, and believe I have chickweed, but there's that size thing

again, and also have a lot of Jewelweed growing by the

creek. I plant all open-pollinated vegetables in my garden also. I

don't have good light or the space in my house to start

my seeds, so I asked my local greenhouse if they'd start them for me, to

which they agreed. They even stored, at the

proper temperature, my seeds. Real nice folks. So, enough about me.

 

I have a question about growing garlic and onions. Can they be grown

together? I get wonderful onions, but my garlic

leaves a lot to be desired. I was told by my sisters' Italian in-laws,

that they can't be planted in the same bed, or even plant

garlic where onions had been previously grown. Is this true? Thank

you in advance.

Mary Lou

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Mary ou wrote:

When you plant mints, you have to keep them well separated as theywill cross (hybridize) and you end up with just 'mint'.

 

That was exactly my question. Can I plant all 4 in one box, or shouldI separate them, and if so, by how much.

 

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