What a sneaky bunch! I thought insects were munching on the leaves! I don't like to use insecticides, and now I am know that I don't have to. Thank you!
Thanks for sharing. I have lots of finches, but being new at feeding them seed, I don't know yet what kind we have here in S. Oregon. They haven't touched the chocolate mint yet, but they love their seed. I love what I'm doing and I hope others try bird feeding too.
Robbie, I have had to cover all my containers with tulle because the birds are either eating or digging into the containers. I also recycle old or gifted PVC irrigation tubing as a frame to hold the tulle. It has saved my garden!!!
Well, that certainly explains why my plants were chewed down even though I wrapped the lower parts of the plants in tulle to keep the rodents and rabbits out 😮😂 I just got some orange mint so I’ll be tulling that up head to toe. 😉
Hey Robbie, I live in Michigan and I would like to know If I can bring my mint in for the winter. How can I keep it growing? How do you use it n coffee ☕? The White crowns come to me in the Spring 🌱.
Missus here: I have lost rose leaves this year and just began feeding a lot more seed birds at the same time so food is plentiful in the same area. I wonder if my birdies could be the culprits? I have looked and looked and don't see any insects, grubs or worms.
I have discovered the birds are the ones eating the collard and mustard greens. Since they are leaving other things alone (so far), I decided to let them enjoy. Have a wonderful evening.
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy Yeah, I read to plant smelly plants to keep the deer out of the garden. Little buggars ate my lavender and mint and crapped on my onions. They even ate my scratchy zucchini leaves. All with 70+ acres of beautiful, green alfalfa surrounding my house. I'm praying my fence idea will work this year. I can't afford 100 dog kennels. Lol
How’s your chocolate mint doing? Mine looks likes it’s died , yes I’d like to know if mint does ok in the winter ? I guess I’ll cover it with tulle like you said.
Are the white crowns eating on the lemon balm by any chance? I don’t see them bothering my chocolate mint, but it’s on the other side of a pepper plant, but my lemon balm is looking kind of rough.
How do you use the mint?? I’d like to try growing next year, but I’m not understanding how you use it in drinks..? Do you just put a couple leaves in the drink and it flavors it..? Or are you crushing it up some then putting it in??.. or do you dry it first then let it rehydrate in your water like you do tea…? I’m confused lol!
Treat the mint leaves like you would any tea. You steep it in whatever liquid you want to flavor - hot or cold. Obviously cold liquids take longer. Hot takes about 3-5 minutes. But herb teas might do better closer to 3 minutes. Experiment. If you don’t want bits of leaves floating around your drink, you can enclose your leaves in a tea filter or even a cheesecloth or coffee filter then steep. To speed up cold mint tea, steep your mint in hot water - in about a third to half of your total volume of liquid - then mix with the rest of your drink. Otherwise, steeping a pitcher of tea in the fridge can take days. As for the leaves and leaf size, I compare it more to loose-leaf tea. I’m not a fan of using finely ground leaves because those tiny bits tend to escape their filter. Compared to that, I’d prefer using whole or half leaves and scoop them out once they’ve finished steeping. Also, don’t forget to squeeze/crush the leaves enough in your hand to break the veins and release the flavor.
@@aftonwhetsel375 You’re welcome! I still haven’t perfected the amount of mint leaves to 2-gallon water pitcher ratio for larger amounts of cold tea - I think I could get away with using fewer leaves - but I’m impatient and figure more is better to avoid a weak-flavored drink and having to do the dance of adding more mint to taste, then water, etc. (this is also when I might use the larger coffee filter or cheesecloth to contain the mint leaves instead of a regular tea filter.) I mainly have spearmint and only recently planted a bit of peppermint (so far I find it to be weak). The spearmint sure does make a refreshing cold drink on a hot day. FYI, if you’re open to it, I bought a stevia plant a few years ago after Robbie talked about it. I try to use stevia leaves to sweeten my drinks instead of sugar or sugar substitutes. Steep the stevia leaves as you would tea and mint. Note that I’ve never been a big fan of the stevia “sugar crystals” that you can buy - I tend to use too much and can’t get the flavor of my drink back - and you can end up with the same result if you use too many stevia leaves and/or steep them for too long. But I thought it’d be a cool experiment to use natural sweetener instead of commercial/processed stuff. And you can grow it instead of paying $ to the man! You can either buy a plant or grow from seed (Lowes advertised seeds in the past, but they were out when I went to buy mine so I purchased a plant instead.)
Hi Robbie! I hope Gary is recovering nicely and behaving!😉
Hi Jackie, He is 😊 Thank you ❤
What a sneaky bunch! I thought insects were munching on the leaves! I don't like to use insecticides, and now I am know that I don't have to.
Thank you!
Glad to help, you should be able to see that the leaves are chewed usually from on thee edges❤
Thanks for sharing. I have lots of finches, but being new at feeding them seed, I don't know yet what kind we have here in S. Oregon. They haven't touched the chocolate mint yet, but they love their seed. I love what I'm doing and I hope others try bird feeding too.
Sounds great! Thank you for what you are doing for nature ❤❤
Robbie, I have had to cover all my containers with tulle because the birds are either eating or digging into the containers. I also recycle old or gifted PVC irrigation tubing as a frame to hold the tulle. It has saved my garden!!!
How do you use the chocolate mint in coffee? Love your videos helps to keep me positive 😊 Thanks
I have different ways I use it, or prepare it, I will try to get something together, so you can pick what works best for you
I would love some information on how you use your chocolate mint in your coffee too please
Well, that certainly explains why my plants were chewed down even though I wrapped the lower parts of the plants in tulle to keep the rodents and rabbits out 😮😂
I just got some orange mint so I’ll be tulling that up head to toe. 😉
Hey Robbie, I live in Michigan and I would like to know If I can bring my mint in for the winter. How can I keep it growing? How do you use it n coffee ☕?
The White crowns come to me in the Spring 🌱.
I would like to know that also. I'm in Illinois. 🦋
So THATS what happened to my sunflowers! Good to know, thanks!
Yes, the white crowns and the goldfinches will eat the sunflower leaves to nothing
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Thank You. I like the lemon mint.
I’ve never tried that one❤ thanks
Missus here: I have lost rose leaves this year and just began feeding a lot more seed birds at the same time so food is plentiful in the same area. I wonder if my birdies could be the culprits? I have looked and looked and don't see any insects, grubs or worms.
Yes let them eat it 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Yes, but not my potato mint 😊
@ 😂😂😂 Never heard of Potato Mint
@ it can be rare to find sometimes
I have discovered the birds are the ones eating the collard and mustard greens. Since they are leaving other things alone (so far), I decided to let them enjoy. Have a wonderful evening.
That’s what I do too, let them have some, so they will leave other things 9:35 alone 😊 Thanks for sharing
The deer love my mint. Especially my chocolate and spearmint. 😢
Oh, interesting 😮❤ Thanks
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy Yeah, I read to plant smelly plants to keep the deer out of the garden. Little buggars ate my lavender and mint and crapped on my onions. They even ate my scratchy zucchini leaves. All with 70+ acres of beautiful, green alfalfa surrounding my house. I'm praying my fence idea will work this year. I can't afford 100 dog kennels. Lol
They eat greens😮
Many birds eat green, what can be surprising is what types of greens some will eat ❤
How's Gary doing? My mint always losing its leaves, just thought it was bugs.
It could be, but birds like eating it too. He is healing ❤ Thanks
How’s your chocolate mint doing? Mine looks likes it’s died , yes I’d like to know if mint does ok in the winter ? I guess I’ll cover it with tulle like you said.
Are the white crowns eating on the lemon balm by any chance? I don’t see them bothering my chocolate mint, but it’s on the other side of a pepper plant, but my lemon balm is looking kind of rough.
That could be, because I had lemon balm and it started to look like my orange mint looks now, and then it passed away😮. So maybe
Maybe that's what ate my raspberry leaves and sweet potato leaves. White crowned sparrows are back. Thank you!East central GA area.
Hello miss Robbie and Mr Gary wow I never realized the different types of mint thank where can I get the different types of mint home Depot ❤
How do you use the mint?? I’d like to try growing next year, but I’m not understanding how you use it in drinks..? Do you just put a couple leaves in the drink and it flavors it..? Or are you crushing it up some then putting it in??.. or do you dry it first then let it rehydrate in your water like you do tea…? I’m confused lol!
Would love to see a video on this!!
Treat the mint leaves like you would any tea. You steep it in whatever liquid you want to flavor - hot or cold. Obviously cold liquids take longer. Hot takes about 3-5 minutes. But herb teas might do better closer to 3 minutes. Experiment. If you don’t want bits of leaves floating around your drink, you can enclose your leaves in a tea filter or even a cheesecloth or coffee filter then steep. To speed up cold mint tea, steep your mint in hot water - in about a third to half of your total volume of liquid - then mix with the rest of your drink. Otherwise, steeping a pitcher of tea in the fridge can take days. As for the leaves and leaf size, I compare it more to loose-leaf tea. I’m not a fan of using finely ground leaves because those tiny bits tend to escape their filter. Compared to that, I’d prefer using whole or half leaves and scoop them out once they’ve finished steeping. Also, don’t forget to squeeze/crush the leaves enough in your hand to break the veins and release the flavor.
@ thank you!! That was helpful to me. I appreciate your response.
@@aftonwhetsel375 You’re welcome! I still haven’t perfected the amount of mint leaves to 2-gallon water pitcher ratio for larger amounts of cold tea - I think I could get away with using fewer leaves - but I’m impatient and figure more is better to avoid a weak-flavored drink and having to do the dance of adding more mint to taste, then water, etc. (this is also when I might use the larger coffee filter or cheesecloth to contain the mint leaves instead of a regular tea filter.) I mainly have spearmint and only recently planted a bit of peppermint (so far I find it to be weak). The spearmint sure does make a refreshing cold drink on a hot day.
FYI, if you’re open to it, I bought a stevia plant a few years ago after Robbie talked about it. I try to use stevia leaves to sweeten my drinks instead of sugar or sugar substitutes. Steep the stevia leaves as you would tea and mint. Note that I’ve never been a big fan of the stevia “sugar crystals” that you can buy - I tend to use too much and can’t get the flavor of my drink back - and you can end up with the same result if you use too many stevia leaves and/or steep them for too long. But I thought it’d be a cool experiment to use natural sweetener instead of commercial/processed stuff. And you can grow it instead of paying $ to the man! You can either buy a plant or grow from seed (Lowes advertised seeds in the past, but they were out when I went to buy mine so I purchased a plant instead.)
@@Robot_Cajun definitely will try. Thanks again!
Birds are eating the flowers off my winter tomato plant.
Oh no! If your trying to save the tomatoes, just drape some tulle on top❤
My mint is being eaten by pillbugs. I threw a few out of my pots.
Yes, they will do that Sometimes, you can also try to put some other types of leaves on the bottom with your mint, they may eat that instead
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Something is eating the leaves off my pepper plants in NW florida
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