So Am I the ONLY person who can kill Mint?

[cornishwoman]

I make mint tea in the summer months,that sugary sweet ,tooth rotting , seep in a tea pot, mint tea. Hopefully my orange mint will come back again this year,your very welcome to a root or 2 if it comes back Jo.I think it would be just fine wrapped in damp paper ,shouldn't take but a few days to get to you.

[mnjrutherford]

That would be lovely! Thank you so much.

It's interesting that you are so fond of the sweet tea. In my childhood, nary a day would pass without it. But I never developed a fondness for the tea.

I use mint with peas... oooo fresh minted peas... yougurt sauces, and herbal blends. I also mix it with honey and ginger for a medicinal brew.

I adore mint!

[cornishwoman]

Mint in red lentils is good and apple mint pasties.I drink mint tea like the Moroccans do,make it in a coffee pot some times but not often ,mostly in a tea pot,it takes a whole lot of mint .

[bluelacedredhead]

Here it is almost Spring, and my two spindly little Chocolate Mint sprigs have keeled over dead...

I'm just not meant to have this plant....

[cornishwoman]

Im so sorry ,RIP little mint.

[darwinslair]

Hi .

[bluelacedredhead]

Darwin, HI Back. Did you kill your mint too?

[WesTex]

I've managed to kill my mint before...or rather the darn mites did. That and one in the ground died cause it's really arid here and i failed to water it. But usually if i can find a bit of root, i just stick it in a glass of water on the window sill and watch the roots spread...eventually you get a loverly little mint sproutling.

[bobinthebul]

Yes, you are The Only One. Bad gardener, BAD gardener! Please retreat to the self-flagellation chamber.

Actually I killed chocolate mint by neglect; it was in a place that really needed irrigation for it to survive. That is probably a good thing in view of what it did in my last garden. But I seem to have an unhealthy attraction for invasives. Ipomoea indica, Passiflora, Verbena bonariense (the only reason I allowed myself to possibly inflict that one on Istanbul was that I knew it was already here!).

[synergy]

So Am I the ONLY person who can kill Mint?

Apparently not. I bought three kinds in small pots last year and have nothing left. I get these lovely herbs from Richters and then I murder them.

[ottawagardener]

Why do you do that Ritchers does give very small plants that from my experience are of high quality but need babying therefore I should be grateful that the lavender I ordered ages ago survived being planted in lawn and occasionally being stepped on. I eventually took out the sod around the plants (Not recommended procedure.)

I did kill chocolate mint once by planting it in a pot that froze solid for much of the time. A half barrel was planted with ginger mint which I was sure would perish but survived?!?

[synergy]

Well I have managed to kill a number of mints but I am going to try again this year 2011, with plain old spearmint . I need a naturalized mint patch as mint is my favourite tea. If I can accomplish that I will be happy with just that mint this year.

[mnjrutherford]

Karen gave me clippings of 6 different mints when we were in Indiana last year. I have them potted on the steps out front. I was getting kinda worried because they died right down to the soil but a couple days ago I saw signs of life in each of the pots. The variegated mint in particular is doing very well. They need a permanent home though.

[cosunflower]

I have not had any luck with mint either in a pot!!! And I used a BIG pot last time, thinking that it must have been too smaller with earlier plants...I used potting soil so maybe that was it? Does it need a certain PH to do well? Less water???

[richardw]

Mint loves lots of water,gota be the other way round in that its likely getting to dry