HERB - Re: Peppermints

[Sheron Buchele/Curtis Rowland]

Try blue balsam mint.  It has a much better peppermint flavor, a nicer
growing habit, and it pretty vigorous for a peppermint.  I am having good
luck with it.  Much prettier growing than the regular pepermint.

My spearmint is getting to be a serious problem.  I brought it home last
year from a restaurant where is was garnish.  I rooted it and put it out.
Now it it several square feel of robustness and climbing out the cracks in
the rock wall that encloses it.  ;-)

Leonora
Outlands

At 09:54 AM 5/3/00 -0400, you wrote:
>>You mean I'm NOT the only one in the world who can't get peppermint to be
>>invasive?! *grin*
>
>No, good lady, you are not the only one. Spearmint? I have no trouble.
>Lemon Balm? Grows like a weed. Catnip? No trouble. Peppermint?
>Forget it. It hates me. I'm convinced it hates me.
>
>Jasmine
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