Mint Reviews

There are lots of varieties of mint, or Mentha as the plant genus is known. Spearmint is provably one of the most common varieties, and you'll probably have had something spearmint flavoured - perhaps toothpaste or breath mints, or even a polo. The name Mentha, like many plant names has a mythological association. Minthe was a Nymph, ...  Read the complete review

Mint is a brilliant plant to have in the garden. However it must be treated with a bit of consideration. The mint plant is very hardy - and you will struggle to get rid of it once it is planted - so don't plant it somewhere that you may want to plant soemthing else there in a few years time. Secondly the mint plant is very keen on ...  Read the complete review

Mint is my favourite herb, I love to rub the leaves and smell the fragrant aroma, picking fresh mint from the garden and adding to a pan new potatoes, emits such a lovely smell that reminds me of summer. It is so easy to grow, in fact it is very hard to get rid of it in the garden so be careful where you plant it as it will take over the ...  Read the complete review

Mint has a genus of around twenty five species, but in fact there are hundreds of different varieties. most of us think of mint as a herb that we only use in cooking when in fact it can be quite an attractive plant in it`s own right. Mint in general likes a cool shady spot in the garden and it will flourish given the right conditions. ...  Read the complete review

MINT - from the family Lamiaceae, but you don't want to know that, you want to read about interesting things. You can buy up to 40 varieties of Mint, but we are talking about Mint in general. This humble Mint plant, must be one of the most underrated plants in the garden. It is good for hanging up in the house to deter flies, it has ...  Read the complete review

Mint is that common garden herb with a multitude of uses for recipes, flavourings and air fresheners etc. Mint is originally a native plant of the Mediterranean and West Asia and the most popular and useful varieties used in the UK today are spearmint and peppermint. Spearmint and peppermint are quite hardy plants to grow and will ...  Read the complete review

Peppermint and Spearmint are the two best known of the mints but there are literally hundreds of varieties, due to the fact that they form natural hybrids with each other. Spearmint is thought to be the oldest and is the one referred to in older writings, and all mints were indeed considered to be one and the same up until 1696 when British ...  Read the complete review

Catnip, or Nepeta cataria, to give it its scientific name, is well known for one thing: cats get high on it. How to grow it Catnip is a perennial herb, which is a member of the mint family. The perennial part means that it will grow back each year if the winter is not too severe. Start off by buying a packet of catnip ...  Read the complete review

Mint is one of the most useful herbs in my herb garden, it's on of the plants I couldn't do without. there are so many type of mint too. Pineapple mint, which has a pleasant flavour and it good to add to the summer punches or fruit salads. Apple mint has a slight flavour of apples. Black peppermint has a very strong fiery ...  Read the complete review

Mint. Where do I begin ,there is so much to say I will try not to bore you. Mint is an herb most of you will know , mint sauce with lamb, or polo?s, or spearmint chewing gum. Menthe, Mint Mint is a Mediterranean plant, introduced to England by the Roman?s. Pilgrims on the mayflower introduced it to America they took ...  Read the complete review

It occurred to me today that although I have been a member of Dooyoo for many moons, there are some categories which I have written very little in and others which I have ignored completely. So although I am hardly an expert here I am looking to redress the balance a little...well write one op. at least. So I wandered in here to the ...  Read the complete review

I have had the opportunity this week to observe the effects of catmint on a cat, and it was so strange that I felt I should share it with everyone. Tilly is a small moggy who lives next door and likes to sunbathe in my garden. I keep my catmint in the greenhouse as otherwise it gets eaten. Last night, out of curiosity, my partner offered ...  Read the complete review

The cool refreshing taste of mint has been added to everything from toothpaste and anti-acids to sweets and teas. Of the hundreds of different varieties of mint, the most commonly used in cooking are varieties of spearmint. Other types of mint include apple, chocolate, lime, orange pineapple and lemon, to name a few. Spearmint and ...  Read the complete review

When we think of mint we think of garden mint, the traditional stuff we grow and throw into new potatoes or make into jelly/vinegar to go with lamb. Mint has many wonderful varieties and can be used in many ways other than the traditional. Morracan mint can be quite beautiful in the garden - it had deep black stalks and is extremely minty ...  Read the complete review

I have decided to be daring and write an opinion about something completely different, something I know absolutely nothing about. I know this may make me sound crazy but I wanted to write about something different to be original. I asked my fiancé to pick a topic. “Mint” he said. I thought he was having a laugh but he was serious so my ...  Read the complete review

Mint is very easy to grow in the garden. The problem is that it grows too easily and readily and it will spread itself all over the garden in a very short time. This can make it hard for other plants to survive and occasionally spread disease. I planted mine in an old biscuit tin. You know, the type you ge assorted biscuits in at Christmas. Punch ...  Read the complete review

Being a lover of Lamb mint is a must in the garden. I was lucky that when we moved to this house Mint was already established in the Garden. Mint has a very spicy flavour and the oil from the plant is used for the manufacture of spearmint chewing gum. The leaf is green and to the uneducated eye looks like nettles except for the very ...  Read the complete review