Meldon Seeds Mint Seeds - 400 Fresh Garden Mint Herb Seeds – Plant and Grow Your Own Herbs in Greenhouse, Garden, Polytunnel, Growbags, Pots or Containers by Meldon Seeds UK

EASY TO GROW FRAGRANT HERB: Garden mint is a hardy perennial that like other mint varieties is very simple to grow and requires little or no maintenance. Best grown in pot/containers as it can spread quick otherwise. Mint will die back over winter then regrow in the spring and lives for many years.

VERSATILE CULINARY HERB: Mint can be used in all kinds of dishes, including salads, sauces, pesto and desserts. It can be scattered over buttered new potatoes or peas, or added to ice creams, smoothies and cocktails, or made it into teas. It produces nectar rich preffy flowers attractive to bees and many other beneficial pollinating insects.

HOW TO PLANT: Sprinkle seeds on surface on small trays of compost and lightly cover the seeds with a sprinkling of very fine compost, and place at a temperature of 15-20°C (do not exclude light). Alternatively sow direct outside after frosts have passed. Gradually harden off plants in a cold frame before planting out after risk of frost has passed. Transplant seedlings when large enough to handle in to final positions ideally pots or containers.

TOP GROWING TIPS: Mint thrives in most soil types, in sun or light shade, and usually forms large leafy clumps up to 1m tall and wide. You can pick mint’s young leaves and shoot tips from spring through to autumn.

GO BACK TO YOUR ROOTS: Mint is a great starter herb to grow. Planting veg, herbs and flowers is a wonderful way to spend time in your garden, cultivate mindfulness and appreciate the little things just like in years gone by. Working with the earth and growing things is immensely satisfying – teach your children or grandchildren this priceless skill of harvesting food in their own gardens, allotments, greenhouses, inside the home in pots or even in community gardens!