On 02/06/2012 10:39, Sacha wrote:
On 2012-06-02 10:34:25 +0100, "Kate Morgan"
said:

One of my daughters has kindly given me a 500g tub of mint, all ready
prepared for pony to have mixed in her feed. It cost approx £7 and I
really wonder if it is worth all the trouble of growing and preparing
the mint to the same high standard when it can be bought for so little
money. I will however still do the nettles as we have heaps of them
growing around the edge of the paddock.

kate
in wet and warm Gloucestershire

Is this a growing, live plant, or one of those cut-for-the-kitchen
packs? Either way, that strikes me as rather expensive! If you do want
mint to grow, put it in a tub or bucket that can drain and watch it
doesn't root through at the bottom, into the usual take over bid!


I take that to be a tub of dried mint, and as you say you get a lot of
dried mint in 500g.
I'd still plant some, and as you want to use it for the horses I should
think you want it to spread, find an odd corner for it, somewhere damp
and shaded if you can and just let it go,
I had water mint at the side of a pool in a previous house and it would
creep out into the lawn. lovely smell every time I cut the grass.
David @ the once wet end of Swansea Bay.