If you happen to’ve tried rising a pot of grocery store mint, you might need found that it normally appears unhappy and dies after just a few weeks. (No less than, that’s what occurred to my first makes an attempt!). However do you know that there’s an excellent straightforward method to make grocery store mint develop, flourish and final for years? Merely transfer it into an even bigger pot with some good high quality compost / rising media. A 5 litre (one gallon) bucket dimension is right to develop a giant wholesome mint plant. A one or two litre (quarter or half gallon) pot can even work. It is a nice venture if you’re beginning to develop. All you want is a bucket, bag of compost and a grocery store mint plant. Watch how to do that on this quick three minute movie – that additionally showcases a neighborhood rising venture Vertical Veg is concerned in.
Shifting mint to an even bigger pot superbly illustrates a common rule of container rising: the larger the pot, the larger the crop.
How you can hold your mint robust and wholesome
Observe the recommendation within the movie and your mint will develop fortunately for months. Use liquid seaweed or one other liquid fertiliser as soon as a month to assist it develop robust and wholesome. It would then die again over winter and magically reappear within the spring. To maintain it flourishing in yr two, take away the mint from its pot. Then divide it into two or 4 and repot it in new compost. You now have further mint vegetation for your self or to offer to your mates and neighbours. Do that yearly, and one mint plant can final the remainder of your life!
How you can use your mint plant
One plant may give you scrumptious mint to make tea, cocktails, or add to salads, curries and sauces. Or one in all these different 49 methods to make use of mint.
About Vertical Veg Avenue
The movie reveals a Greening Wingrove Undertaking, Vertical Veg Avenue. This helps native residents to develop meals in containers on the entrance of their residence. Meals rising workshops are run straight on the streets to make it straightforward for anybody to affix in. With due to all of the individuals who starred within the movie. And to those that contributed in so many alternative methods to the road occasions – by internet hosting a session, cooking meals, supporting and rising vegetation for others….. and never forgetting avenue occasion attendee Andy Jones of Screenstation, for devising and making the #mint movie. Thanks Andy!