MInt Spicata - 10cm Pot - Herb

MInt Spicata  - Garden Spearmint - 8.5cm Pot - Herb 

UK Grown

Spearmint is the most frequently found garden herb which is also known as Common or Garden mint.

The familiar bright green leaves are pointed with serrated edges.

The bright and refreshing taste of mint is hard to beat for its refreshing flavour.

You are best to grow it in a large pot or, even better, to sink a bottomless bucket into the ground (leaving a 5 cm rim above ground) into which you plant it because otherwise it has a tendency to send runners out in every direction and colonise your entire herb area.

Mentha spicata, is perhaps the most widely grown mint for general kitchen use, its young bright green shoot tips ready just in time for the first peas and early potatoes in June. Like all mints, it’s a vigorous and very hardy perennial, spreading widely by underground runners, which are easily restrained by growing plants in containers.

For best results grow Mentha spicata in rich, moist but well-drained soil in full sun.

Mulch annually with well-rotted compost. Plants can be cut back hard just before flowering, and leaves can be frozen for use in winter. In milder regions, leaves should regrow in time for a second harvest

The leaves taste better before flowering so pick frequently and clip if you don't need any for a few days. 

• Height: 45- 60 cm when mature
• Spread: indefinite unless contained
• Colour: bright green, pointed, serrated edge, mauve/purple flowers
• Flowers: July-August
• Uses: culinary, herb garden - good for cooking and tea
• Spacing: 30 cm
• Scent: spearmint
• Habit: upright, vigorous
• Life: hardy perennial
• These hardy plants will return year after year, needing little maintenance
• Supplied as a small young plant
• Young plant growing in a 10cm pot