Growing Mint

Ugh... I am so late with this post, and thought I might not even get to it today. I've been doing an assignment for the past few days, and in the grand tradition of all slack scholars, after having 8 weeks in which to leisurely write my essay, I started on it last night and it's due on Friday. Nothing like a bit of pressure to get the creative writing into action. Lol, I hope that the submission time is midnight Friday, I am already feeling lazy and need a bit more deadline pressure to work with. It's amazing what you can find to do to distract yourself with, unfortunately for me the distractions that I have found to do haven't involved any sort of housework. Or gardening. It's a bit depressing looking at the garden after all that wind on Saturday, everything is looking a bit sad. The banana trees got their tops folded, like they needed any more of a challenge to fruit :(

Anyway, I did want to start looking at some new fruit trees I purchased at the BOGI fair, but would you believe it's raining again, and is way too wet for me to venture outside. I've just washed my hair :p.

So instead I bring you mint.

I've always been hopeless at growing mint, coriander too for that matter, but this year, my mint has gone wild. I think it must be all the rain we've had, the rain that I've been complaining about for quite some time now. Anyway, mint seems to either go wild or die, the boys' nanna has mint popping up everywhere in her garden, miles away from where it was originally planted. I was digging right next to mine the other day and discovered little underground mint runners, much like a strawberry's, but hidden. I thought that was cool. Mine is planted straight in the ground, I will try and get some runners going in pots too though, and make them into gifts. I love the smell of mint, planting it somewhere where you brush past it would be a great idea too, such a heady fresh fragrance.

So having established that I know nothing about growing it, my one hint for mint, (and it's the only hint for mint I know) is if yours isn't going well, try watering it.