Planting and cultivation Management of Mentha rotundifolia

Mentha rotunda

Mentha rotundifolia (linn.) huds

Name: spearmint

Family: Labiatae, mint.

Configuration feature: perennial herbaceous, bine 4 arris, unripe white fluff densely. Leaves opposite, oblong-ovate to orbicular, leaves rounded with irregular undulate teeth, grayish green, pilose. Leaves 3cm long, 2~2.5cm wide, white or pink, aggregated at the top of branches. Summer flowers.

Ecological habits: in warm and full sunlight environment can grow well, avoid high temperature, cold, growth temperature of 20~30℃. Likes moist, fertile alkaline soil.

Cultivation and management: available sowing, ramets or cuttings and other ways of reproduction. Sowing in spring is best, ramets or cuttings in spring and autumn are appropriate. Adaptability, extensive management. After planting new seedlings should be compacted and watered thoroughly. When new leaves sprout, keep the soil moist, but do not accumulate water. When the seedlings are 15~20cm high, they are picked to promote more branches. Fertilization is applied once every half month in the growth period, and phosphorus and potassium fertilizer are applied 1~2 times. It is best to divide once a year.

Cultivation and Management of Mentha rotundifolia

spearmint

Mentha rotunda

Mentha rotundifolia (linn.) huds

Name: spearmint

Family: Labiatae, mint.

Configuration feature: perennial herbaceous, bine 4 arris, unripe white fluff densely. Leaves opposite, oblong-ovate to orbicular, leaves rounded with irregular undulate teeth, grayish green, pilose. Leaves 3 cm long, 2~ 2.5 cm wide, white or pink, aggregated branches top. Summer flowers.

Ecological habits: in warm and full sunshine environment can grow well, avoid high temperature, cold, growth temperature of 20~30℃. Likes moist, fertile alkaline soil.

Cultivation and management: available sowing, ramets or cuttings and other ways of reproduction. Sowing in spring is best, ramets or cuttings in spring and autumn are appropriate. Adaptability, extensive management. After planting new seedlings should be compacted and watered thoroughly. When new leaves sprout, keep the soil moist, but do not accumulate water. When the seedlings are 15~20cm high, they are picked to promote more branches. Fertilization is applied once every half month in the growth period, and phosphorus and potassium fertilizer are applied 1~2 times. It is best to divide once a year.

Conservation and management of spearmint

Spearmint is native to Central Europe, and because of its medicinal properties, there are many benefits to planting a pot on a balcony. And spearmint round leaf itself has a certain smell, can repel fleas, ants, cockroaches and so on. The small series will introduce you to the morphology, habits and cultivation methods of spearmint.

spearmint

I. Morphological characteristics

Herbs perennial, stems 4-sided, densely white tomentose. Leaves opposite, oblong-ovate to orbicular, leaves rounded with irregular undulate teeth, grayish green, pilose. The leaves are 3 cm long and 2~2 wide. 5 cm, white or pink, aggregated at the top of branches. Summer flowers.

II. Ecological habits

In warm and full sunlight environment can grow well, avoid high temperature, cold, growth temperature of 20~30℃. Likes moist, fertile alkaline soil.

III. Cultivation Management

Available sowing, sub-plant or cuttage and other ways of reproduction. Sowing in spring is best, ramets or cuttings in spring and autumn are appropriate. Adaptability, extensive management. After planting new seedlings should be compacted and watered thoroughly. When new leaves sprout, keep the soil moist, but do not accumulate water. When the seedlings are 15~20cm high, they are picked to promote more branches. Fertilization is applied once every half month in the growth period, and phosphorus and potassium fertilizer are applied 1~2 times. It is best to divide once a year.