Help- tips for growing mint

pinkparrott

Hi please can anyone help me, i have been growing quite a few herbs with some sucess but i can't grow mint, i have bought a few different plants but they always die on me,
someone told me mint often takes over, but i cant get mine to flourish ?
what am i doing wrong, i can either plant it in the garden or a container, any tips please.

Smoffi

a biggish container... NOT in the main vege patch.. as i have just dug out roots over 3 ft long!! horrid stuff!!

Zazen999

Nip some tips off someone else's plant, chuck it in a pot and leave it be. Don't use multi-purpose compost, use garden soil. Just water every day until it roots and then only when it is really dry.

You can root mint by nipping off about 3 inch long cuttings, stripping back the leaves to the last 2 and putting in water in a milk bottle, keeping the water topped up. It should root in a week or 2. Then plant it as above.

wallbash

I lost my mint last winter, the frost got too it .
Had it growing happily in the top of an ornamental chimney.
So now its in the traditional metal bucket ( bottom removed )
buried in the garden.

LJM

i always find mint hard to get going yet my nan has it all over the place

choille

Get in about someone's mint patch & just haul up a runner, or dig a bit up. Plant in an old bottomless bucket as above, because it spreads at a shocking rate.

bp78

How the hell do you stop basil from dying as well? It always looks great when I get it home, then in a few hours starts to wilt and die. Poor Basil.

Zazen999

bp78 wrote: »

How the hell do you stop basil from dying as well? It always looks great when I get it home, then in a few hours starts to wilt and die. Poor Basil.

Why, do you take it out on trips?

I sow it into pots, and nip out the growing tip once it has 4-6 leaves, and make sure it doesn't dry out. Basil likes alot of water.