Ritchers has this mint, I was wondering if anybody has bought it. I'm thinking of buying it this spring.
Has anybody bought the new Mojito mint yet?
My Cuban friends just use spearming or apple mint. What is different about this "Mojito mint"?
I'm not sure, but ifyou go to ritchters.com you'll see all the diff varieties. Most are different in tastes and looks. I'd like to try this one though. It's one of jim westerfield's mints
I take that back, the web site saysit's not jim westerfield's mint. but I think i'd still like to try it.
Maybe Mojito mint tastes like rum!
I bought it last year and it's definitely different from any other mint I've had. It did pretty well potted up on my deck last year. I dug it into my garden, pot and all, so I hope it's been able to overwinter well. Here's some shots:
http://iwetmyplants.com/?s=mojito
That's a healthy pot of mint there. How far are you from ritchters? I know their in canada too. so far that's the only place i've found the mojito mint at. I havne't gotten any yet, but I 'm thinking of getting some this spring
I'm about three and a half hours from there, up near Ottawa. I was in Toronto mid-summer last year on a trip and decided to swing up to Richter's on the way back, specifically to buy this plant. This is how it looked when I first bought it:
Anijunga, that's a healthy looking plant you have there! It seems to have thrived over the summer.
How is the flavor compared to other mints? Have you found any particular use that the mojito mint is good for?
I would assume its good for making Mojito's! ;o)
(currently a trendy drink)
I think Jim Westerfield has a lot of interesting mints but I think catchy names are used for marketing purposes.
i.e. "Candy Pops", "Marshmallow" or "Margarita" Mint is going to sell more than plain ol' Peppermint, don't ya think?
Alot of them do resemble each other LOL makes me wonder if jim's are the only legit ones out there.
I can see where the several JW mints I have vary in their form but most taste about the same to me.
I also noticed where some of his new mints have taken on names of mints some of us already had, such as candied fruit and a couple others
I didn't notice that but haven't been paying that close attention.
Is there ever a Richters herb co-op here?
I've never heard of one, I would never join in on one, their shipping healthy plants record is horrid. but it does come from a long ways. And do credit or refund for dead plants, but you know, we order those plants cause we want them, if half or 3/4 arrives dead or doesn't last a week, then that's a bad thing.
So is there an herb co-op with any other supplier?
I've never seen one in all the years I've been here.
common herbs are too easy to come by in the spring, Guess no one's ever asked for someone to host one
but richters isn't the place, now someplace like
crimsonsage? that is a super herb place cheap enough and unusual herbs you don't find, shipping is sky high though.
Well I'm talking about more than your average herbs you can get anywhere. You know more specialty herbs.
A place I ordered JW mints from is Fragrant Fields. Not even sure they're still in business. Small operation with limited varieties but they sent me some very nice plants in 2005 & 2006. http://www.fragrantfields.com/
Very reasonable on prices and shipping too.
Also I get alot of rare herbs from a place we go to every year down near Shipshewana, Indiana. (northern Indiana near Michigan border) Prairie Trail Farm. Renae doesn't ship but thought I would include this info for anybody who is able to go there. She has *alot* of heirloom tomato plants and tons of basil as well as a large selection of herbs, alpine plants, topiaries and rare perennials.
http://www.prairietrailfarm.com/
I just checked and FF is still in business!
They have a nice selection of JW mints.
Hmmm...just looking at their mints...have you ever heard of "Mint, Eau de Cologne"?!
Also noticed their prices on the mints are up $1.00 from the last time I got some from them but prices are up no matter where you go.
This message was edited Jan 28, 2008 2:18 PM
yes I've heard of that mint, it's also called some other name, something with orange in it, but the name escapes me.
so does it orange scented?
I'm not really sure Vicky, it's been several years since I've had that particular mint.
I have an orange scented, smells nothing like orange LOL my lavender mint smells wonderful though just like lavender. I lost my sweet pear mint that was a good one I wish to have kept, it smelled just like ripe pears.
I've killed out alot of my mints , kind of got tired of keeping them thinned out since they were in the ground.
When it's time for us to thin out the mint, we just go at them with the lawnmower... :-)
That doesn't kill them out though LOL. I have had some die from bermuda grass taking over them
I have some in the ground too...3 clumps.
I just annually dig/rip out the extra I don't want.
(Sorry I don't have time to mail off the extra stuff.)
My mother ordered some last year from Richter's to run rampant under a tree along on her property with some other mint "flavors" (lime mint, margarita mint, etc.) She gave me a small cutting off of the mojito mint, which I kept inside over the winter in a pot. The mojito mint does smell/taste a lot different from other mints and that's what makes mojito (the drink, we've made them) so unique. She told me the other day that it looks like the mint is coming back just fine but I suspect that it, like most mints grown around here, are difficult to get rid of!
Here's an article on mojito mint with recipes:
www.richters.com/mojito/
Richter's drives their USA orders from their nursery in Canada to Buffalo, NY, and then mails them, so you would think that the plants wouldn't arrive dead or mangled, but they do. Seeds arrive in great shape however. Other herb companies that I love who have unusual herbs are Crimson Sage, as someone mentioned. Horizon Herbs and Companion Plants. Crimson Sage and Horizon Herbs are on the west coast and shipping is terribly expensive if you are far away, but I've never seen better packed plants! Not a dirt molecule out of place. Companion Plants is in Ohio, so shipping not so bad for me here in NY state. Also excellent packing of plants.
I know their plants are always damaged when shipped, perhaps it's cause they are so tiny. not sure. i've never had good luck with their plants.
I'd be very interested in trading for some cuttings off the mohito mint lovers_lavender if you can get the mohito and not the others LOL
This was from a couple years ago, the last time I ordered plants from Richter's. Not only did everything jumble, but many of the plants got sheared off due to being tossed out of pots. By contrast, Horizon Herbs put wet wadded newspaper around the base of the plant, cover that in a plastic baggie that is taped around the pot, cushion the plant material and then tape the pots to the box itself so they don't jumble around in the box during shipping.
I would love to trade away some of the mojito mint. Turns out, my mother has a planter-full growing in her sunroom, so she has plenty. It's very easy to differentiate it from her other mints by smell. I had mentioned to her before that since it is still "rare" in the U.S., we could sell some on Ebay :)
I will admit, she and I are new to any form of plant propagation, so if you can let us know the best way to clip & ship them, we'd be more than happy to. The cutting she had given me was an accidental clipping, but it appears easy enough to grow, she'd just stuck it into potting soil. I still have the one she gave me in a pot since I haven't decided if/where I want to let it run rampant in my yard. There's a bare spot between the driveway along the house and I keep imagining chamomile, mint, etc there...
Thanks!
Nicole
Sure Nicole.
I would take as many as you can cuttings 5 to 10 at least 3 to 4 inches if you can spare that amount , just in case alldon't root. wrap the ends in moist paper towel so they stay moist then put a tad of saran wrap over around the paper towel. we're probably talking half a sheet of paper towel, not to cover all the cuttings, just the ends that were cut. put it in a priority mail box. which will be 4.60 to ship, pack it with stuffing of some sort so it doesn't move around. and ship. Do you want any thing in particular or someother form of mint. Most of the mint I have is all rooted, so you won't need to root what i send to you.
How about some julia's sweet citrus mint or one of jim westerfield's basil mint, smells pretty good, julia's sweet citrus is one of his mints too.
I'd say to ship regular mail but I do't want to loose the cuttings in the mail. yuors will cost me the same amount to ship to you.
Make sure, though that you get the thickest stems for rooting, alot of times the tiny teeny stems won't root, and the stems closest to teh ground will root faster. and do better being sent in the mail as cuttings.
let me know which one you want too. I can send a couple on my end to make it worth your while, or else I'd be getting this from ritchters.
I have about 40 mint varieties. Habak is an unusual mint too I really like it. My addy is in the exchange. so if you could get back to me soon, I'll ship yours out tomorrow ok.
Thanks so much for sendng me some
I have a few things on my DG "want list", but if you don't have any of those, I'd be more than happy with new kinds of mint or nearly any other kind of herb (hence my DG name) that will grow in my zone.
The planters of the mojito mint are at my parent's house (who are out of town) but I can swing by there sometime this week and snip some cuttings for you. I work days and my local post office closes by the time I get home, but I believe there is one right by my work. I can go mail them on my lunch break. I can Dmail you my address once I get them sent off. There is enough to send you 10 and I'll have my hubby snag some shredded paper from his work to use as packing material, if you think that's okay.
Don't laugh too hard, but I am excited about my first trade! :)
Nicole
WEll, I'm very honored to be your first time trader.
I do have american beautyberry Icould send cuttings off of and regular common lilac I could send cuttings off of. and I have the marshall's delight monarda but not the pink one you requested. I have other monardas several named ones. would be glad to send things on your want list instead of other mints.
I've never rooted the beautyberry or the lilacs, do'nt know how well they root, I could send several cuttings of each if youwant to trade for those cuttings.
Just let me know. Youcan send any time you feel , if youwant to wait till your family comes home from vacation , that's more than fine with me.
I'll send your s out tomorrow, and you can just send when you can, but if you can't get the cuttings till wed, or so, just wait and take cuttings over this next weekend and send them on the following monday. if they were plants they'd do better being shipped over the weekend than cuttings would.
shredded paper works great for packing them in too. that's what I use.
Excerpt from Dmail:
First thing next Monday it is, then. That would work out better since my folks are out of town and I'll be over there next Sunday to visit with them. Not that my mother will mind trading off her mojito, she knew I was planning on it, but I am going to use her sunroom to grow our new cuttings. We've started some buddleia from her yard to transplant to mine, so it will be neat for us to try other shrubs out since plant propagation is new to us. All these years of buying new plants for my yard when we could have been dividing hers for free (duh!) :)
Beautyberry and lilac would be great! Doesn't sound very hard to get them to root from what I am reading now... http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/483736/
Thanks!
Nicole
This message was edited Apr 13, 2008 4:39 PM
woops, I see my question was answered above, there, she got hers from ritchters.