Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Vegetable 2013, Mid-At and Friends, 1 by coleup

coleup wrote:
Honest to goodness I almost included in my earlier post that my favorite thing to interplant with tomatoes is mint!. I think mine was peppermint. I loved making tabouli or throwing lots of fresh mint in a gallon jar for sun tea. Even made mint jelly one year. Sure, Ric I'd take a clumpy mat or two of spearmint! Don't your chickens eat it? Just hang those clumps upside down in a dry place for a week or so and then strip the stems for all the dried mint herb you want. I have used the dried out dead root mats as a mulch around some plants like little collars...not sure it did any good, but I liked it. Probably inspired by my first gardening book by Alicia Bay Laurel called Living On The Earth.