Mint is the ultimate beginner's herb: Resilient, fragrant, and difficult to kill. It grows fast, smells incredible, and transforms everything from tea to dinner recipes with minimal effort on your ...

It spreads rapidly.” Gardener reveals the common mistake that can lead to one plant destroying a garden: '[I] didn't know ...

Mint. It’s been used for centuries to treat maladies from gallstones to the common cold. There are more than 30 species of mint and all of them have “volatile oil menthol,” which is why mint is ...

Mint, sage, rosemary, thyme, horehound, mountain-mint, catnip, bee-balm, marjoram, pennyroyal, lemon-balm, hyssop, lavender, dittany and basil: what an aromatic bunch of plants these are! All of these ...

Easy to grow and easy to love, mint is among the most common perennial herbs. Whether you grow peppermint, spearmint, chocolate mint, pineapple mint, or common garden mint (or one of the many other ...

Mint is known for its aggressive spreading behavior. Gardeners who learned the mistake of planting it in the ground once can attest to its ability to root easily wide and far. Learn to love this ...

The mint family of herbs, which includes sage, rosemary, basil, and even woody plants like teak, offers an invigorating jolt to our senses of smell and taste. Researchers have found that these plants ...

CLOSE YOUR EYES and smell a leaf of mint. For mainstream varieties the identification is as obvious as a scratch-and-sniff sticker. Dig a little deeper into the culinary world, though, and different ...

Though Idaho may be known for its potatoes, the state exceeds most any other for a much lesser-known crop: peppermint. But across the U.S., mint farmers see a major threat to production that’s ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. – The mint family of herbs, which includes sage, rosemary, basil, and even woody plants like teak, offers an invigorating jolt to our senses of smell and taste. Michigan State ...