Potted plants that are easy to care for have many advantages, but before caring for them you need to prepare a flower pot.

Mint, which some people call "yuxiangcai," is a green plant commonly seen in southern China, mostly growing by mountain wetlands and rivers, with rhizomes creeping underground; it mostly grows at an altitude of 2000 m, and can also grow at altitudes above 3000 m. It is most common in Guizhou, and is a crop with special economic value. Mint is a plant with many uses, relatively easy to grow, and with many benefits, making it especially suitable as a potted plant. Do you know what uses the "mint" everyone talks about actually has?

1. Potted mint as a seasoning

Mint gives off a special fragrance, which smells a bit like the fishy odor of "fish," so mint is also called "yuxingcao." When merchants in the Jiangnan region make fish dishes, they usually add an appropriate amount of mint as a seasoning, leaving people immersed in mint's unique fragrance.

2. Potted mint tea

When growing mint, you can use the leaves to make tea. Drinking mint instead of tea in daily life clears the mind and brightens the eyes. Friends can try brewing a cup of mint tea. In China, mint production is largest in Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, followed by the Guizhou region.

3. Potted mint repels mosquitoes

The scent given off by mint has a mosquito-repelling effect. If you get bitten by mosquitoes or insects, you can also pick some mint leaves, crush them, and rub them on to reduce swelling. For example, for ordinary toothache or internal heat, you can pick mint leaves you grow yourself and chew them.

4. Growing mint

Mint really is a plant with many advantages. At this point, many flower lovers may want to get a plant and grow it, right? But if you do not fully understand it, do not plant it casually! Because its reproductive ability is simply too frightening, and its root system is very developed. Mint has strong adaptability to environmental conditions, is moisture-tolerant, shade-tolerant, and likes sunlight; as long as you get a small surviving root system and keep watering it, you will see mint grow tender leaves after two weeks, and at this rate it can grow into a lush pot of mint in about two months!

Once mint is planted in a flower pot, its growth cannot be stopped. Unless you do not water it and let it dry out and die, it will grow wildly, with extremely strong adaptability. Therefore, it is very necessary to give it a larger pot. Especially the higher the temperature, the faster mint grows. Particularly in summer, if you leave it alone, it can grow very tall.

If you wait until mint's root system fills the flower pot, it will be very difficult to remove. At this time, you should cut off all the mint leaves exposed outside, otherwise before long the root system underground will sprout small seedlings again, growing more and more... Therefore, friends who always say they cannot keep plants alive can try growing mint, and it will absolutely give you a huge sense of achievement.

Generally, after autumn, mint will bloom. At this time, be sure to remember to cut the flowers off, because the smell of mint flowers easily attracts small insects. By then, all kinds of inexplicable small insects will gather around the flowers, greatly affecting your interest in enjoying them. Do you all feel you have learned something new?

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