You may have a couple plants now. In the years to come, you'll have
thousands of them, and they'll never go away. Mint is basically a
maintenance-free plant.

1998: 1 three inch pot of mint
2003: 1 three foot by three foot plot of mint, a zillion seedlings everywhere,
and constant weeding it out of the lawn, the crevices along the sidewalk, the
cracks in the raised bed....etc, etc.

There is NOTHING maintence-free about mint - it is like the creeping, flying
green creature from horror movie hell in the garden. Good thing it tastes
good...

I take it, wash it, and add it in a huge handfull to one part water, one part
sugar in a large pot on the stove. Simmer as long as you like, strain out the
leaves, and bottle the syrup to refridgerate. Use the syrup in regular tea in
place of sugar, in lemonade, or hot chocolate. No idea how long it keeps in the
fridge, because it never lasts that long around here....

Quick mint tea is boiling water added to a handful of leaves in the teapot with
a few drops of lemon or lemon slices.

Hmm...I'm going to make a cuppa, right now....


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