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Container Garden: Transplanting Mint
I received from Nichols Seed Company yesterday the two mint plants I ordered in January. One is a Black Simpson peppermint and the other a spearmint. I am considering transplanting them both to a seven gallon nursery pot. They will share an apartment for a while until I figure- out how much of each I will use. If I need more of either for my kitchen later I will take a cutting or a root to another location. Are there cautions to this plan that my inexperience in gardening is not allowing me to see? Any comment is welcome. Thank you. Kitamun -- Container Gardening in Central California twelve miles from the ocean Climate 10a Separate Posting to Newsgroups: rec.gardens and rec.gardens.edible |
Container Garden: Transplanting Mint
On 4/26/2008 8:13 PM, kitamun wrote:
I received from Nichols Seed Company yesterday the two mint plants I ordered in January. One is a Black Simpson peppermint and the other a spearmint. I am considering transplanting them both to a seven gallon nursery pot. They will share an apartment for a while until I figure- out how much of each I will use. If I need more of either for my kitchen later I will take a cutting or a root to another location. Are there cautions to this plan that my inexperience in gardening is not allowing me to see? Any comment is welcome. Thank you. Kitamun Mint in a container will eventually fill the container. I have peppermint in a 12-inch red-clay flowerpot. About once every two years, I knock the mint and its root ball out of the pot. That is, I turn the pot upside-down and rap it sharply (but not sharply enough to break the pot) on the edge of a table or other firm surface. I can then lift the pot off the plant. With a sharp paring knife I cut the root ball vertically in half and then in half again. I keep one of the quarters and trash the rest. (DO NOT ATTEMPT TO COMPOST THE TRASHED PARTS. You may wind up with a very invasive pest.) I cut about 2 inches off the bottom of the root ball of the quarter I'm keeping. Using fresh potting mix per my do-it-yourself recipe (see http://www.rossde.com/garden/garden_potting_mix.html) under and around the quarter I've saved, I repot it. I water the result heavily, until the potting mix is quite soggy. (Mint is a thirsty plant, requiring much more water than most herbs.) I do the same with tarragon and oregano, again about once every two years but without saturating the potting mix as these herbs don't need as much water. In all cases, I put the pot in the shade against the north side of my house for about a week or two. Then I move the pot back into my garden, where it gets some morning sun. -- David E. Ross Climate: California Mediterranean Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19) Gardening pages at http://www.rossde.com/garden/ |
Container Garden: Transplanting Mint
Mint is pretty hard to kill. And it WILL take over the yard if
planted in the ground, trust me! I think it also root in water. Good luck |
Container Garden: Transplanting Mint
On Apr 27, 12:36 am, Laura at theGardenPages
wrote: Mint is pretty hard to kill. And it WILL take over the yard if planted in the ground, trust me! I think it also root in water. Good luck Mint will also grow in water. A friend got a Curley mint to go in a small tub pond and gave it to me when she tired of the pond. I keep it very wet with water always standing in the oversized bottom saucer, and my dogs drink that water constantly. I haven't tasted it but wonder if it tastes like mint to them? I can't bring myself to trying it. Thanks for the tip about repotting it. Mine is about filling the pot!! Nan in DE |
Container Garden: Transplanting Mint
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kitamun wrote: I received from Nichols Seed Company yesterday the two mint plants I ordered in January. One is a Black Simpson peppermint and the other a spearmint. I am considering transplanting them both to a seven gallon nursery pot. They will share an apartment for a while until I figure- out how much of each I will use. If I need more of either for my kitchen later I will take a cutting or a root to another location. Are there cautions to this plan that my inexperience in gardening is not allowing me to see? Any comment is welcome. Thank you. Kitamun -- Container Gardening in Central California twelve miles from the ocean Climate 10a Separate Posting to Newsgroups: rec.gardens and rec.gardens.edible As others have commented, it would be more of a challange to try to kill these plants, once they are established, and they establish themselves very easily. -- Bush Behind Bars Billy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVTf...ef=patrick.net http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=7WBB0s...eature=related |
Container Garden: Transplanting Mint
On Apr 26, 11:13 pm, kitamun wrote:
I received from Nichols Seed Company yesterday the two mint plants I ordered in January. One is a Black Simpson peppermint and the other a spearmint. I am considering transplanting them both to a seven gallon nursery pot. They will share an apartment for a while until I figure- out how much of each I will use. If I need more of either for my kitchen later I will take a cutting or a root to another location. Are there cautions to this plan that my inexperience in gardening is not allowing me to see? Nearly impossible to kill even by neglect. Start new plants by burying a stem. Cut free and repot once roots form at nodes. |
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