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This video explains how to grow mint successfully and keep it healthy, productive, and full of flavour.
I cover where to plant mint, whether to grow it in containers or beds, watering and feeding needs, pruning and harvesting tips, and how to stop it spreading too far. With the right care, mint is one of the easiest and most rewarding herbs to grow.
Suitable for gardens, patios, balconies, containers, and allotments. Perfect for beginners wanting a simple herb that grows quickly and provides fresh leaves for cooking and drinks.
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hey everyone and welcome to Gardening
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with Ben in today's video we're going to
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be planting mint now I bought these
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plants pretty cheap and we need to get
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them planted so that they get
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established and get growing however with
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mint it is advised not to plant it in
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the ground because it does take over and
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it can grow absolutely mental so the
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best thing to do is grow them in plant
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pots now I've been out and bought some
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plant pots for these to go in just nice
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decent size small ones should get enough
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mint on them and hopefully they will
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bush out but the thing is that you've
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got to remember is you need to put some
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holes in the bottom of them for drainage
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as they don't often come with holes they
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usually give you the place where to put
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the holes where it's the thinnest so
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yeah just drill some holes in the bottom
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of them to grow so let's show you what
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mint we have purchased we bought five
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varieties there's loads of varieties of
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mint out there if you're not aware not
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just the normal mint there's different
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smelling mints out there to try so we
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have got a apple mint this one smells of
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apple it's going to smell gorgeous down
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here on my a lotment but yeah nice
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healthy plants bought them pretty cheap
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and they should take and hopefully get
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growing fast then we've got a chocolate
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mint so if you like chocolate get one of
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this one because it'll smell gorgeous
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ooh it smells like uh after eight mints
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that's what it smells like so another
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gorgeous
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one then we've got a Moroccan mint this
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one probably is one of my favorite ones
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absolutely gorgeous
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wow then we have got a pineapple mint
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yeah
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pineapple lots of different flavors out
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there to
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try but yeah
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gorgeous and then we've got an orange
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flavored one so a nice variety of
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selection of mints to try there's also a
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spearmint flavor one out there but I've
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not that wasn't available in my shop so
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I might have to try and find that one
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and order it because the spearmint one
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again is another gorgeous one to try so
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we best drill the holes in the plant
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pots get them planted up get them
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watered and find somewhere to put them
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you don't want to generally put them
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near one another as the smells can
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transfer between the plants so you're
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probably best off like separating them
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and having them in different places when
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putting them outside so yeah let's get
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these plant pots drilled and let's get
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them filled up with
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compost so as you can see I've put loads
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and loads of holes in there so that
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there's plenty of drainage firm and they
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won't get water logged so yeah we just
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need to fill them with compost now and
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get them ready to plant we're going to
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be using Miracle Grow Pete Free as
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obviously there's food in it and it's
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Pete free so that's the best thing to
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use pete free compost so let's get them
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filled up with compost ready to plant so
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we got these filled up yes we've got a
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small pink one but we they didn't have
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five in the supermarket of this size so
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I've had to use one of these ones for
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the time being until we can get one that
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matches these ones but oh well we got a
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nice one there but yeah let's get these
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potted up into the plant pots and then
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get them all watered so we got all them
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potted up we got them with his labels in
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as well that one didn't come with a
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label but I know that's apple mint so
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yeah let's find somewhere to put them
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and then get them watered
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so we've popped them outside for the
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time being just around where we sit so
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that they'll smell nice and hopefully
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grow pretty well but yeah we've got
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lavender in here as well so hopefully
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it'll smell really nice around here come
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summertime i can't wait to see how they
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all turn out and hopefully grow so I
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