Mint is added to salads, pastries. This fragrant culture is good in tea. It is unpretentious. Waterings, infrequent loosening – all this that it is necessary for it. It is enough to grow up mint from seeds, and many years it will grow on one place.
Instruction
1. Buy seeds in shop or collect them from the plants. Seeds have to be ripened. Plant lemon peppermint to be spread by its citrus aroma in tea. Fans of menthol will not regret that they have grown up tyuringsky peppery grade. She will present such aroma.
2. To charm not only taste, but also look, buy seeds of mint fragrant. Its green leaflets have beautiful white fringing. If you want pastries to smell of apple, pineapple and currant leaf at the same time, buy seeds of apple mint. This look is widely used in cookery. Field – the most unpretentious in cultivation as it is wild-growing look.
3. After you have decided on grade, in the middle of March start cultivation. Mint sunflower seeds very small therefore it is better to put at first them on seedling. For this purpose perfectly superficial food plastic containers will approach. Fill them with the easy earth, spill it, condense with palm. Spread out seeds on surface. Powder with small soil layer (0.3 mm). Close cover. Remove containers to the warm place. Sometimes slightly open for a while cover for airing.
4. When over the surface of the soil there are small shoots, put capacity to window. At the height of 50 cm hang up lamp. Include it in the morning and in the evening to provide 12-tichasovy daylight hours.
5. Water shoots with warmish water from spray. In month seat them more rare, having sustained distance of 5х5 cm. In the middle of May plant seedling on kitchen garden. Choose for this purpose cloudy day. You perform works in its second half. On bed make grooves, spill them water. Get mint seedling with lump of the earth and carefully put on the prepared place. Distance between plants of 20х20 cm. Place them in chessboard order.
6. Establish small arches over ridge, throw them lutrasit. If there is no such material, then the normal sheet will approach to pritenit seedling. When saplings take root, they will have new leaves, remove shelters.
7. In hot weather water plants in the evening. Sometimes you loosen the soil between them. If seedling of pale green color, badly grows, then feed up it urea solution, having placed tablespoon of this fertilizer in water bucket.
8. Prepare mint for the future. Cut off it before blossoming, having left stump of 7 cm, tie in bunches, hang out in shadow. If you want to receive the seeds to sow this culture big plantation, wait until they ripen, and plant seeds on kitchen garden in July or next spring.