The checkerboard pattern sounds pretty. If you get a chance, I'd love to see a photo?
Nanniepb ~ I'd use anything, a piece of a garbage bag... old showercurtain... anything. Just poke a few drainage holes in it.
What's your best mint 'planting' tip(s)?
I must add that I am loving this post. I am now going to replant my overly tight- in- the- pot ginger mint in
in a hanging basket.
What a great idea I will do tha tto my Lime Mint and My Choclate Mint. I thought I had bought Ornage Mint but there must have been an oregano mint plant mixed in with the ornage mint containters because picked up anotehr plant thinking it was the better looking one and like a dummy ddnt double check the tag and ooked to day and saw it was an Oregano Mint so I gave to my bud next door.
Deb
I wish I could remember who mentioned the hanging basket first so I could give them credit ... ah well, thanks to whomever!
Pagan,
I think I mentioned it first but that's not important----
I used Shepperd's hooks so I could move them out of the hot blazing sun in S. Alabama as the season progressed
You probably did, you're our hero!
now I need more mint =)
But, of course!
Just divided my Ginger Mint into 4 small pieces and planted them in a hanging basket. This is such a good idea!!
it wasn't MY idea but I am glad someone mentioned it. but ...my starter pot mints look 'nekid' in my planters...ive put some JMG seeds in some of them so I hope they look spectacular, but I wonder what else can be planted with them? i got 8 dianthus plants yesterday...maybe i need to stick with hanging plants.
ya'll have a great Day!
Be patient, in a very minor way...mint will spread fast and fill those pots before you know it. It does help to pinch them off so they branch out, then reroot the cuttings.
Tee hee just picked up corisican mint (Mentha requienii). O tis a mint frenzy ^_^ I promise I will be more responsible in my next life (fairy's honour).
Um, yeah - me too! behind you all the way.....
I am so glad that I moved the lemon balm into a pot. More is starting up in the garden where I thought I had removed all of the plant. I dug it up and put that in another pot. New apple mint is in a pot as well. I shift the pots when I water to be sure the mints aren't sneaking into the garden.
My lemon balm doesn't seem to spread "maliciously" by runners. It drops seeds. So I have plants coming up several feet away from the mother plant. The mother plant just gradually gets bigger--not too intruisive as long as I deadhead it so it doesn't reseed. But I have a friend who sells herbs so she'll come dig up anything that gets out of its boundaries.