How to Make Mint Plants 3-4 times more fragrant!
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- Опубликовано: 22 ноя 2015
- Keeping your mint plant properly groomed will ensure the fragrant oils
are flowing. Mint will loose its scent after a little while if it is
allowed to grow woody. The best way to fix that is to trim it all ack.
Pruning will encurage new shoots and make your mint 3 to 4 times more
minty!
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I love that you went from a billion to 3-4 times more fragrant 😂😂😂
I have mint that was planted by my Grandmother. I am the third generation to care for our little mint grove, and I hope to be able to pass it on to my own children one day. In the mean time, I'm always happy to share it, and tips my family have accumulated over time caring for the exact same plants.
The best way to maintain mint is to wait until the spring when the new sprouts are coming up then go in and remove last years woody stalks. This will make way for the new plants. Be careful, because if you just yank them free new plants can come with them. If that happens, you can always just put the young plants bank in the soil; mint is remarkably hardy.
Another good way to keep them fit and fresh is to clip them back about mid summer. Of course, if your mint crop is a food source, you will probably be harvesting from it regularly and won't need to do this. Mint grows incredibly fast and they're resilient, so any mint removed will just be filled in in a few weeks by the rest of the mint. Mint also travels, so if you want to separate them when planted in the ground, from other plants, you have to be vigilant. Just cut back or cull any growth as it encroaches upon other plants to keep from being overrun.
How do I care for a small mint plant indoors? Any tips? I do not have a green thumb at all! Lol
As a kid my grandmother had mint that spread around her porch. I would literally mow it which smells amazing. This takes out the old growth, and allows the new growth to thrive.... honestly I thought he was just going to run it over with the mower... probably would have been the best for it lol
Mint is also wonderful for babies with Colic. A bit of mint leaves boiled in water then strained and cooled. It calms the stomach and eases the pain they have.
Julia
Reggie Radio, Look up Colic dear. 3 out of 10 babies suffer from it and doctors have no idea why nor do they know how to treat it. What works with one may not with another. And no babies do not eat junk food. They do not eat any solid food at all at 2 months old. Its breast milk or formula for nutrition.
Julia
Reggie Radio you obviously know nothing!
Reggie Radio...why do people waste their time to comment on something they have no idea about.
@@juliacampbell5881 could be dairy that's the problem
Also good to put in water if you're doing sports n loosing electrolytes
This is my first time growing mint and after just a few short months, the scent is gone. Thank you for this great video!
Great tip to remind people to 'cut back' and harvest their herbs. I cut my mint at least 3-4 times during the growing season. ALWAYS drying my harvest. I use it daily for tea blends. I also do the 'ice cube' method of preserving so I have mint 'fresh' for some of my favorite beverages. A mint oil infusion is great for a massage oil. So many uses for your mint.
+LARK'S GARDENS I know, we LOVE mint. It is so great to make essential oils with.
***** you get a distillation kit or make one. It is about $250 for the kit online but it is SO worth it!
I would love to know how to make essential oils. I think a video on what uses mint and other herbs has would be very informative and interesting to me. How about other people, anyone else want to know?
Rita Gibson yes, I'd love to know how to make essential oil from mint.
@@ritagibson225 same
When I tried this my mints where actually 4.20x more fragrant. Thanks
What kind of “mints” did you plant? 😉
@@ejohnson3131 junior mints
lmao 69 likes too
@@ejohnson3131 Thin Mints
The spearmint in Dallas Texas dies during winter and summer and seems to grow on the shorelines of ponds. It’s semi aquatic here.
Great tip! Such a simple and doable way to get a better crop of mint. Love the informative and accessible way you present the info.
Lovely! I can almost smell the mint as you were moving it around. Thanks for the tip!
Mints always do a great job of growing back once they've been cut, it does look harsh but it works!
in my garden, mint is a weed that grows wildly and has to be cut back to stumps year after year. don't know how it got there, but it's a blessing and a curse!
Great tip! I'm always amazed at how mint grows back when it's cut totally back! A wonderful herb to have around. Thanks for the quick tip!
+CaliKim29 Garden & Home DIY I think you did a video on that a while back too. Not sure if it was on mint or not but I remember something about cutting your herbs back. Nice to see a bit of overlap to ensure information gets to people.
+MIgardener | Simple Organic Gardening great vid , no splain'n needed.
atripa645 oh no, I wasn't explaining. I was just saying I think I recall her channel doing a video on something like this a long time ago. And it might not even have been her channel too! lol, 120 subscriptions to gardening channels wears the brain out.
The pruning mimics beneficial natural processes. In nature a herbivore would have eaten it down to where there were no more leaves and then moved on (and maybe left some natural fertilizer behind). Many plants have evolved to do well like this, this is why some plants seem to do so well when harshly cut back. This treatment is not hurtling the plants, it's actually giving them ideal conditions that seem harsh by very different human standards.
I would recommend guys getting a slow machine juicer to juice herbs
Great tips, I have lots of mint because I love mojitos!!
I know this is a gardening video about mint bushes, but your outfit is fresh 🔥
All i ever hear is people say mint is invasive, I want mine to be but its probably the least invasive plant in my garden, the only way i have made it spread is by propagating it, its probably my favourite plant thats why i just want tons of it
I would love if a guy gave me a bouquet of mint or basil!!!❣️💯
Great info and thanks! First year VERY fragrant - took over my basil patch! Second year - naturalized everywhere. Should have read up more as I grew up Lanscaping. Now, very light fragrance and aroma. Will cut back and see. Plants are a foot tall.
More good information Luke. Thanks for sharing. Best wishes Bob.
very cool helped me with my mint plant
+Jennifer Smith So glad it helped you out!
Awesome Tip, Thanks for sharing. I just bought seeds from your store.
I have several types of mint....starting to get lanky-woody....thnks for the tip!!
Yes, this is the right thing to do. I finally cut my jungle back for the meter reader after it had gown to flower. I would suggest letting it go to flower at least once in it's life. The bees and other insects will love you for it. About the time my first harvest was dry enough for smudge sticks, the next young thick crop was ready to harvest. Mint really is invasive although welcomed, and nothing short of roundup will eradicate it completely. Don't worry about over-harvesting this.
Great video, we love our mints.
Excellent info!
Thanks for the tip. Will the leaves and sprigs grow a bigger size when they come back?
Hmm. I see that's peppermint, a hybrid. Spearmint grows naturally on our property and I love it. The smell is so calming
Big fan of yours!
Very helpful 😊thank you.
Good stuff!
Thanks! I bought one plant three years ago and it quickly took over my 4x4 raised bed. They are out of control this year and 3-4feet high and starting to flower. They are beautiful, however, I just noticed the entire bottom 6-9inches is covered in yellow powder. It is dusty when I cut the plant back. Is is fungus and how can I treat it?- should I rip them all out or just cut it all back?
What to do for winter (Minnesota)? Shall I cut back before the cold or just let be long until after winter? It's a first year baby, I have mojito and lime mint!
hi ....how many varities of mint do you have in your garden do they (varities of mint) has a different way of caring or in cuttings propagating? or are they the same when it comes to taking care of them
Thanks for this video.
Good projects
Thank you!
Excellent
is there a tip for potted african basil to make it more fragrant? i don't use it in food, i just wanna enjoy its beautiful smell
Is it recommended to prune mint before the winter, or should one wait until spring, or does it not matter?
Thank you
Awesome!!!
Great tip Naayaana Baane Cheppaavu
THANK YOUUUU!!!
I have a sweet mint plant and it was being taken over by my basil plant so I moved it to a pot and I gave it a little miracle gro and put it in mircale gro soil and the plant is turning brown!! HELPP
thanks mate
Thanks Luke.What will you do with the cut mint?I have some Tarragon in a pot that looks a bit like the mint.Old tall growth and now new shoots below.Can I do the same?
Cut back the scragglies and let the new stuff grow, yep.
how many mint specie do you have? scent wise
How do you keep bugs from chewing up the mint? I don't want to spray it with chemicals because we use it for cooking.
Will this work for organize and other like herbs?
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Does this work for flowering plants? My peonies, although beautiful, don't have much aroma this year. I add a caveat: I walked around my neighborhood on Sunday, and my neighbors' peonies don't have much scent either. It might be that we're in a bit of a drought.
I had a question but no one knows what to do. I was looking to plant some honey dew I just don't know the most efficient way
That is enough mint for LOTS of TEA!!
I was thinking mojitos
What is the uses of wild mint..pls clarify field mint and wild mint both are same
Does this also work for Peppermint as well? I imagine it does.
I'm having healthy sweet ment but it doesn't smell and no test as mint should be also not strong smell as its lost the smell ... is there any solution?
We use to mow over the mint once a year. Great tip!
BTW, my son thought that you look a lot like Mike Catherwood. (The host of the game show, Chain Reaction). Let me know what you think!
Thanks again Luke!
Chuck
+Fensterfarm Greenhouse I see it. They look like brothers. :)
I’m struggling with my peppermint; the soil is crawling with whiteflies and cuttings have some blackened leaves.
i use a 50 cm pot drill 5mm holes all around from top to bottom 1 inch apart fill with well fertilzed dirt and plant mint it stays in pot and grows out the holes and makes a mint ball with no old growth to deal with when you trim it back to the dirt.
Wow that's a nice idea ,to for a 🎉
I have about 600 feet of mint along my outer fence line. Looks Gorgeous when it is not out of control, but it quickly gets that way...do you think a hedge trimmer would be feasible? I have hand trimmed, and it takes hours upon hours to work my way down the sidewalk. Not to mention not being able to hold up my arms that long since it is in a raised planter along the sidewalk that is about 3 feet off the ground! I think most of the sidewalk is hidden at this point in the season due to my mint. Bees love though. :)
Hedge trimmer would be fine
I am at novice at this. what kind of mint plants are you talking about and where do I get them. do you have a video that explains more about them?
pa dude11
“Mint” covers a pretty broad range of plants. The catnip I grow is a mint, and holy moly does it smell and taste like mint. I got the seeds from Walmart
Mow it down with your mower set on high. The smell of all that chopped mint is amazing, and it will grow back quickly.
I used a little miracle gro on my mint plant which did look amazing green and lush and now it's leaves are dying and drying up. What can I do??
Just cut it all back, mint will grow easily, no matter what, as long as it has water and the soil is not soggy.
When does spearmint grown from seed start to have fragrance?
So weedwhack mint every once in a while. Can do!
That's what I do with my chocolate mint patch. It seems to thrive on being weedwhacked!
The mint that my grandparents have (35 years) is more potent than ever! I know because when I was born 20 years ago it was here, and a few years ago I remember it was strong but not as it is today
Try to grow it indoors just like I try to do now. Expensiive, needs lots of reading and tests, but every day, my results are better and better. Oh, and one big advantage of growing it indoors is that they are insects free. One of my favourite died due to insects !
Why is my Peppermint plant having very mild scent while the Wild Mint in the nursery giving out very strong minty scent?
I need help. My mint smells like skunk. Is there something i can do? Or di I just get a new plant?
You're cool!
My mint has grow like weeds like I expected. Would I be able to dig up some of its roots to plant in a pot? Or, do I have to propagate them? I want to give some of the mint plant to somebody else.
yes, it's easier than you think !
I'm growing avocado trees and mint leaves
how did it go?
Can sperment be grown from seeds
I saw Brahmi also in ur garden below mints
I just got a 6 inch pot of peppermint and doesn’t smell at all,it was marked organic on the label,looks very healthy otherwise but nothing like the mint I lost in the freeze in February this year.It’s not leggy or big enough to cut back,any other suggestions?
he's not answering any more so here's my two cents worth if you're still here... As long as there are even a few green leaves it will grow back
Excellent Demo. All the time I do it here in Bangalore,India. Your video will help lots of gardeners around the world. I love you man. I enjoyed it.Bye now
+Ramanathan Raman So glad you enjoyed the video!
When you said you don’t think anyone has as much mint as you, my friend have you ever met an Arab??? Lol I’m saying that as a guy who has probably 2x more mint as you and every house in the fam be growin it. Shoutout Palestine 🇵🇸straight outta Chicago ✌️
Got Ginger mint?
'Cause I don't 😔
Hi, I have the mint tips mostly brown. What this means? What can I do. I have it in a container.
same thing happened to my bean from overwatering
When my mint gets like that I just prune it back hard, it’s almost impossible to over prune.
Mint repels ticks as well as lavender, geranium and rosemary 👍🏼
*If I plant mint around my house will it help keep bugs away??* I ask because I heard mint oils keeps cockroaches & ants away.
Not very much, but I know lemongrass and catnip can deter pests
I ended up here wondering why my chocolate mint seems to taste stronger year on year, even the root cuttings. I still cant see whats going on there.
My clay pot has a white fungus film on the edge of the dirt, is this bad for my plant?
Try repotting it
I heard that if mints are left to flower, they're food for the pollinators - true/false?
Can you use mint clippings as mulch
Nooo they will invade the soil and strangle all other plants of life
Easy way to bring back the scent of mint bushes is to just run your lawn mower over it and WELLAH👍
That’s the easiest way to do it, and wait for a month then you’ll have a nice fresh mint leaves back again, with strong scents this time around 👍
How to Grow in Large Amount..?
I put some mint stems that I got from the grocery store in water to plant them after they grow roots, and they started rooting from the whole stem and not only the nodes, should I be concerned?What type of mint is it?😅
Nope. Perfectly normal. I don't know what type you bought but most likely it's just common peppermint.
MM420 thank you so much 😊 🙏🏻
All of my apple mint smells like actual pee from a distance but once you smell it up close it smells alot better.
What if you just take lawnmower over it?
Dry your mints and use them as dry herbs for years
Mint plant in the bathroom?
hek yea even better if schools plant mint in their toilets
MIgardener, y so cute and handsome? ♥
The problem with mint is that everybody I know has it or don't know what to do with it.
Make mint tea out if it. You can also mix it with other herb teas.
Or smoke it with other herbs
Prune it. Saved you 5 mins
Love da pfp
Or u could use the older ones and cut them thus new ones will always be growing
My peppermint seems to have turned into spearmint. Yuck. I want strong peppermints!!
*or boyfriend, I'd love to get a mint bouquet
I felt so bad for that plant but I know it's for its own good :-)
👍🤓🪴
There's a difference from mint to
Peppermint.
Pemint is 40% more. Powerful authentic
While Just mint only is 0.5%
If want to confirm. My knowlegment learn thru years of research ask
Google
Is like to say
Reg Spinac vs Malabar Version of spinach
American Spinach have 20% more iron then Malabar
So common sense trim the plant back. 10 minutes when your title was more eluding to a fancy solution. Its a half click bait title.
He's lieing about the mint rooting. The water had to be airated, or else most of the mint will die before it roots. So this means changing the water unless you put the mint in an aquarium, like I did. Infact most rooting plants follow this rule of needing airation in the water to root.