July 8, 2007
A bounty of mint!
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I bought several little 4-inch pots of mint a few months ago. I wasn’t feeling hopeful about them, since I’d killed several mint plants in the last year or so. I planted them all in dappled shade this time because I’m pretty sure it was too much sun that thwarted my previous efforts. I’m happy to announce that they seem to be thriving.
The orange mint is so happy it’s throwing out a few delicate flowering stalks.
The Kentucky Colonel mint (hybrid spearmint) shares the shade of my rosemary bush with the orange mint.
The peppermint gets a little more sun where it snuggles between the marjorum and oregano, but it’s looking healthy, too.
The little lettuce sprouts I showed you last week are thriving, also, but looking rather lonely. There are two small plants here, out of the dozens of seeds I planted. I’ve started trying to germinate some seeds inside so I can hopefully increase the crop before I present it to my friend for her birthday.
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July 8th, 2007 at 4:47 pm, Cass Says:
orange mint. That sounds very enticing. Have you had any in tea?
July 8th, 2007 at 5:10 pm, Cade@BusinessOpportunity Says:
This looks awesome and it appears you have put a lot of effort into this? How long have you been gardening for?
July 8th, 2007 at 5:10 pm, Emsxiety Says:
Congrats on the mint.
July 8th, 2007 at 8:16 pm, skeet Says:
I’ve tried the orange mint in tea, Cass. I’m allergic to citrus oil, so I was looking forward to the taste and/or aroma of orange in the mint(without the danger) but didn’t detect it at all. Tasted good anyway, but just minty.
July 8th, 2007 at 8:18 pm, skeet Says:
I gardened as a child, Caade, but never had my own yard as an adult until I bought this house. The first few years I just had shrubs, but I added herbs a few years ago and some florals this year.
July 8th, 2007 at 8:19 pm, skeet Says:
Mahalo, Em. I’m growing it so you can have some minty iced tea when you come see me.
July 9th, 2007 at 9:29 am, ruth Says:
I’m glad your mint is thriving; the orange mint sounds really nice. Hope you get the lettuce seeds growing ok.
July 9th, 2007 at 9:43 am, Lynne Says:
WOW! Those mints plants look fabulous! You must be doing something right. I’m so bad anymore with plants that we just had to move into our new house and existing plants began to die! Happy gardening!
October 5th, 2007 at 3:20 pm, Tricia Says:
Hey Skeet. I had replied to your last contest reply asking if you were still interested in doing Green Thumb Sunday but you must have missed it.
I’m cleaning up the list and this post is your most recent GTS post. Are you still in or not? If you are you’ll need to do GTS no less than once every month if not weekly.
If you can get back to me on this I’d appreciate it. Thanks!