Mint

Description

Mint is a fantastic perennial herb grown for its amazing scent of mint and also for the many uses it has from making tea to adding to many meat dishes such as mint sauce for roast lamb. Added to chocolate for an amazing minty taste. It is also great for helping British nature.

Ideal for

• Minty Rhubarb crumble.
• Chocolate mints.
• Sauce for lamb.
• Add washed and chopped fresh leaves to ice-cream.
• Tastes delicious in milkshakes.
• Perfect for adding to summer cocktails.
• Flavoursome herbal tea.
• Can be used to freshen a room.

It is always best to use the leaves fresh rather than dried because the drying process can make leaves lose a lot of flavour.

Perfect for any garden or planter. When plants have finished flowering, trim back to about 6 cm above the ground. Keep the plant regularly trimmed because trimming the plants ensures there is always a good supply of fresh young leaves. If you let the plant flower, it will reward you with lilac to purplish flowers at the top of each stem, however the leaves will be tougher and older with less minty flavour. The plant can be trimmed after flowering.

Honey bees and hover flies love the flowers of this plant.

It is possible to grow in a plant pot on a kitchen windowsill. It is advisable to keep the potted plant trimmed, so it will keep producing young leaves. The younger leaves tend to contain more mint flavour.

Do not let the plant dry out during long hot summers.

During the winter the plant will die back, this is perfectly normal.

Check out our Mint and Honey tea recipe.

Please note: Image may show established grown plants.