Growing Tips For Mint Plants

If you often drink mint tea or use mint in your recipes, consider growing your own mint plants instead of always buying a plant or tea bag at the supermarket. There's really nothing difficult to it. Below there is a "mint growing"-guide explaining all the steps you need to follow.

Preliminary Advice

To have more fresh mint leaves, you can grow several plants at a time but don't take leaves for your mint tea before your plants have grown large enough. Otherwise, you will quickly run out of mint leaves.

The Needed Steps for Growing a Mint Plant

1- Buy yourself a mint plant

2- Plant your mother plant in a larger pot

 
3- Care for your mother plant: give it enough light and water

4- Cut off a sprig and put it in a glass of water

5- Wait, wait, wait...The roots should grow.

6- Plant your new plant in a pot

7- Now, you can drink minty tea

8- At last, don't forget to repot your plant each year

Reference: http://www.patrickdepinguin.com/mint/howtogrow/

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