This plant gives off a very, very pleasant smell. It is used to give a special flavor to different foods such as rice soup, but also to perfume our day to day every time we get close to her.
Very easy to grow, today you will learn how to obtain new specimens very economically. Find out how to plant peppermint.
Peppermint reproduces very easily, as you will see. Although you can purchase a seed envelope for one euro, or even less depending on the establishment, you can choose to collect the seeds of some plant that has a relative or a friend. To do this, you must wait for them to bloom, something that usually happens in summer. Its small flowers are pink, very pretty. In general, they will remain open for a few days, until they are able to be pollinated.
Once they have achieved their goal, the petals will fall and the seed will begin to form inside the chalice (it is the lower part of the flower, the one that is most in contact with the flower stem). As the seeds are very small - about 0cm - and light, the ideal is to cut the entire stem of the flowers and, in an area protected from the wind proceed to do the sowing.
Peppermint is a plant that settles for little. Thanks to this feature we can use a economical garden substrate, although of course it can be improved by adding between 10 and 20% perlite or any other porous material to improve water drainage. We have to always keep it moist.
As a seedbed we have the traditional plastic or clay pots, but if you don't have them right now, make your own with milk or yogurt containers. Thus, while your future plants awaken to life, you take care of the environment by reusing things that you would normally end up discarding. Remember that you must put it in a location where it receives as much sunlight as possible.
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