help please! i got several mints from a dg member last year labeled chocolate, apple, lemon-lime, spearmint and peppermint. i didn't place markers on these like a nutt and need help now. one has different leaves than the rest that are kind of curled up or ruffled. the only pictures i find of one that comes close is grapefruit mint which i didn't receive. i can't find any thing on the lemon-lime mint. thanks so much for any help!
which mint has curly leaves?
here is a picture this morning
There is a type of spearmint, Mentha spicata 'Crispa', 'Curly Mint', that looks like that.
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/98993/index.html
thanks so very much that looks like it!
The apple mints that I've seen have red stems.... but your nose might be the best way of telling the other mints apart. If you want to post pictures of the others, I can compare them to ones in my garden -- or maybe you can see if the person who sent them to you can ID them from photos.
i dont have much experience with mints. i got these late last year and din't use any. i have pinched some this morning and put into ice trays to freeze. i am wanting to try the banana mint. i havent found any around here.
I might be able to tell your Chocolate Peppermint by its leaves, as that's one I have also... it's similar to "regular" peppermint but has a sweeter, less harsh flavor. The lemon-lime should have a disctinctive citrus scent/flavor when you crush the leaves.
Then again, you can choose not to worry about their ID... just try using your different ones in various ways (iced and hot tea, fruit salad, spearmint is fabulous with lamb, etc) and see which ones you like for what uses.
Not chocolate or apple. Chocolate has a darker leaf and smells just like a peppermint patty. Apple's leaves are a little fuzzy and smell just like, well, apples.
I would love to have lemon-lime! yummy!
i believe i know which one is the apple. it has darker stems and is very fuzzy. i will try and get pictures of them. one which i think was lemon lime had to be moved. my husband rolled up the water hose and laid it on top of it as he didn't know it was mint. it is the smallest one. now it looks terrible i hope it makes it.
Mints will come back from the smallest scrap of root! If you're worried, you might dig it up and baby it in a pot for a few weeks, or take a cutting if possible (mint roots very readily in water).
It'll come back. Seems they come back best if you tell them you don't want them there!
I just put in a ginger mint and am waiting for it to get healthy and strong before I harvest any. I'm really looking forward to that one.
Oh, you'll love the ginger mint! Notmartha generously shared some with me last year. It was the last of my potted mints to sprout up this spring, so I really had my fingers crossed... but it looks great! I think it's going to be a favorite for iced tea... :-)
That's what I was thinking. I'll also put some in ice trays to freeze -- they look so pretty that way.
okay i have a question. i have never done the mint leaves in ice trays until today. do i bruise them before putting into freezer?
I don't but I guess you could. I put them in whole and they look pretty. I'm not sure they'd look as good after freezing if they were bruised. Try it and see, though -- we can all learn from you!
As far as I know, there is no mint that is called lemon lime. there is a true lemon, a lime mint, hillary's sweet lemon, jim's candy lime but none called lemon lime. that one would be hard to identify .
their right on your curly mint though. There is a curly leaved called butter mint, and one called snowcones. but they both have smaller leaves.
Hmm. I'm pretty sure mine came with the label "Jim's Candy Lemon Lime" last year. I'll have to double check.
i am rooting some of this curly mint and apple mint right now in water.
Then the name has been changed somewhere down the line, Jim westerfield has a mint called Jim's candy lime, and now richters has taken the name jim off of it and has called it candy lime. Jim westerfield doesn't have a mint called candy lemon lime.
I could be wrong, but to be honest, there is only one other nursery that has rights to sell jim westerfield mints legally, and that's oh shoot the name escapes me, I think oh yeah, www.fragrantfields.com
Everybody else who gets a hold of westerfield mints, changes the name to some degree so they can sell them.
I was told this by fragrant fields.
I got mine from fragrant fields last year, when they did that special DG discount. :-)
you got your jim's candy lemon lime from fragrant fields?
something's not right then LOL. They must have lied to me. unless Jim did put out another one called that. Richter's is the first one that puts out jim's mints, and I emailed them a while back . they said they h ad some greenhouse damage from frost and such, or crop damage, but jim had some new mints they were suppose to be coming out with , but they never put them out yet.
I wish there was another way to find out .
Fragrant Fields currently lists "Jim's Candy Lemon Lime" under its hybrid mint offerings.
http://www.fragrantfields.com/index.asp?PageAction=Custom&ID=12
HUM< I appologize for thatmistake then, it must be a new jim westerfield's mint. then, wonder why richters doesn't sell it.
I have no clue about that, LOL. It grew slowly last summer, but the pot of it looks like it's coming back nicely this year. I know potted mints tend to get rootbound, so I'm planning to split about half the mint out of each pot (10-12") and put one type under each little dwarf fruit tree. They should get a little water from the drip irrigation to help them get established, and they can ramble around to their heart's content out there, although I understand that many of the hybrids seem less vigorous in their growth than "standard" peppermint.