I am wanting to grow mint this comming spring but I don't know if mint is perennial to zone 5b. I can't seem to find the answer to this. Does anyone know :?: :?: :?: Janice
Janice, mint is perennial in the arctic, under a snow cap and with polar bear footprints all over it! Mint is a very hardy plant. It will die back to nothing over winter and then come on whooping in the spring. Keep it contained--it tends to spread a lot and can take over an herb bed. Its little roots are very tenacious.
I keep mine in containers, too. My favorite is chocolate mint. It tastes like a peppermint patty. It is so easy to start. I just put a "branch" in water and they root. I'm in zone 5 and they always come back each Spring. Don
Just make sure you put it where you dont mind it spreading...cause it will! *lol* I had a chocolate mint jump the sidewalk and grow on the other side (it grew along a crack)! Oh well, its behaving pretty well, and when it does get a little rambunctious, I just trim it back
We have some growing near 2 faucets that have been there for years and years. There's no containing it now, so when it gets too tall and thick, it just gets mowed/whacked down. My brother wanted some to put by the faucet near his storage building... I warned him that it would spread, but he said he didn't care, he liked the smell. So... now there's 3 places with mint going rampant!
Where ever the soil is moist and you have dapple sunlight, you can get mint to grow. Prune before it finishes flowering. Watch out for runners and pull them out before they get ahead of you. Your reward will be a thick carpet of mint. Jerry
Hi, we live in oregon, and when we grow mint (or most other herbs) all we do is put it in some potting mix-dirt (get it from a store, it has more nutrients than regular dirt), plant the mint (much easier to buy as a plant than seeds) then just make sure to water it once a week or whenever it gets dry. moderator's note: removed website link, see point 1.1 of usage rules
You plant mint. You coddle it and coax it and then the next year you enjoy the fruits of your labor. The third year you start digging up patches of mint. You swear when it goes where you never planted it and don't want it. The fourth year you keep your windows closed just in case it comes after you in the middle of the night.
I saw a chocolate mint hanging basket at the nursery last summer and thought it was beautiful! But, I am cheap and thought "I could do this myself" never got around to it tho...
