Can aromatic crop mint repel mosquitoes? How much is the market price per jin? When will you plant it? When will it be picked? How do you plant it?

Peppermint, also known as wild mint and nocturnal incense, is a common aromatic crop, which is favored by people because its stems and leaves have high edible and medicinal value. Can peppermint repel mosquitoes? How much is the market price per jin? When will you plant it? When will it be picked?

Can I repel mosquitoes?

Yes, because the peppermint oil, menthone and menthol contained in peppermint are easily dispersed and can dispel mosquitoes to a certain extent. Secondly, mint also contains deworming essential oil, which smells very mild and is harmless to the human body. Therefore, it can be used as an indoor deworming incense, which is most effective in spraying or fumigating incense in summer.

Market price:

Sowing time:

Peppermint is planted in autumn and winter in the Yangtze River Basin in southern China, that is, from late October to late November, and in the north, it is suitable to be planted in spring, that is from March to April. If you sow peppermint indoors, its sowing time is very long and can be sown from winter to early summer. When sowing, choose a more loose and breathable soil, then keep the soil moist, and sow the seeds on the moist soil. After sowing, the seeds should not be covered with soil, but can be covered with plastic film to keep the soil moist. The temperature should be kept between 21 ℃ and 25 ℃. Generally, seedlings can emerge in 2 weeks.

Picking time:

Medical use is often harvested twice during the growing period, and the first time is 5-6 days before the summer festival, when Ye Zhengmao is in full bloom and the flowers are not yet in bloom, cut the aboveground part. The second time was between the Autumn Equinox and Cold Dew, when the flowers were in full bloom and the leaves were withering. The medicinal use is the best between the Autumn Equinox and Cold Dew.

Flowering time:

Peppermint blossoms with purple, white, and pink spikes at the top of the branches, giving a fresh and elegant feeling; the mint is axillary in a corymbose with a slender pedicel covered with villi. Calyx campanulate, covered with puberulent and glandular spots on the outside, but not hairy on the inside; sepals narrowly triangular-subulate; anthers ovate, disk flat-topped. Mint blooms between July and September every year, when the flowers bloom luxuriantly.

Potted plant skills:

1. Soil: the cultivation of peppermint should choose rich sandy soil with loose soil and good drainage.

2. Temperature: the best cultivation temperature should be kept at 20-30 ℃, and peppermint has strong cold resistance and can bear the low temperature of-15 ℃.

3. Illumination: peppermint is naturally fond of sunlight, which should ensure sufficient light, which can effectively ensure the normal flowering of peppermint and promote the accumulation of peppermint oil and menthol.

4. Moisture: the cultivation of mint needs more water, so it is usually necessary to keep the basin soil wet, especially in the early and middle stages of growth, and the water supply can be reduced appropriately during flowering.

5. Planting: when selecting branches, the stout white rhizome should be dug and planted, trimmed into a root segment about 8 cm long and buried in the basin soil, and new branches can be produced after about 20 days, and the tender stem head can also be cut for shade cutting in May-June.