How to Grow Mint: Fertilizing Methods and Care Tips

Mint is a plant that many friends find both unfamiliar and familiar; you always see it in all kinds of drinks, but many households have no experience growing it. As a plant in the subfamily Lamioideae, mint has many uses, and production is mainly concentrated in China's Jiangsu and Anhui provinces. So how do you grow mint? What are its values?

I. How to Grow Mint

The editor has summarized the keys to growing mint for you; you can refer to them and try them out for yourself. Let's take a look:

1. Plant temperature

Green plants are quite sensitive to temperature, but mint has good adaptability, and neither high nor low temperatures affect it very much. Generally, only below 15°C does it suffer a little, and its growth rate may slow down. The most suitable range is between 20-30°C, and with careful watering, its growth rate will keep up too.

2. Plant light

Mint rather likes sunlight, so long hours of sunshine are very good for it. Summer is the peak growing season for mint, and in summer mint blooms quickly; sunlight can speed up its growth.

3. Plant soil

Mint is easy to grow and has no great demands on soil; ordinary soil can be used to cultivate mint, though it will suffer if the pH is too extreme. You can choose well-drained, loose, fertile soil for growing it.

4. Amount of watering

Mint needs a fairly large amount of water when first planted; remember to water about once every half a month, and later on you can appropriately reduce the frequency.

5. Fertilizing

Farm-grown mint needs fertilizing, mainly with urea, and later on potassium dihydrogen phosphate can be mixed in for top dressing. Fertilizer helps mint absorb nutrients better and grow quickly.

II. The Value of Mint

Besides the use in drinks that we know about, mint also has other culinary and medicinal values.

1. Mint can be cooked into porridge to help the human body digest. It can also be put into fish soup to treat coughs.

2. Mint has a distinctive fragrance and can be processed and added to chewing gum and toothpaste. Many brands of toothpaste contain mint, which freshens breath, clears heat and kills bacteria.

3. The whole mint plant can be used as medicine, and it has auxiliary effects on colds and headaches.

4. Controlling the amount of mint used can help with sleep, but using too much will cause insomnia.

That's all for today's introduction to mint. You can go to a flower market and buy a pot to try it out; it is easy to keep alive and convenient to manage, very suitable for growing at home.