How to grow potted mint at home? What do you need to pay attention to?

Peppermint, soil name "silver Dan grass", is a kind of aromatic crops with special economic value. Many people like to put a few pots at home, so how to grow potted mint at home? What should I pay attention to? Next, let's learn together:

Cultivation method of potted mint

1. Requirements for mint growth environment

Peppermint prefers warm, humid and sunny, rainy environments. Rhizomes can germinate at 5-6℃, and the optimum temperature for plant growth is 20-30℃. There is a strong cold tolerance. The soil for mint cultivation should be loose, fertile and well drained sandy soil. Water content has great influence on the growth and development of mint. The early and middle stages of plant growth require more water. Bud emergence and flowering require sunny and dry weather, requiring less moisture.

2. Sufficient sunlight

Mint needs plenty of sunshine, if you raise mint, you must put it in a sunny place. Don't worry about the sun in summer. If the sun is not enough, mint tends to grow too long, the leaves don't grow, and it's especially thin. A whole pot may become smaller and smaller.

3, enough water

Mint needs plenty of water to grow, and hydroponics are fine, but soil culture will grow better. If there is no watering for a few days, the flowerpot is extremely dry, and even the leaves are dry and withered. Don't worry, as long as the roots have vitality, then watering, it will soon restore its former vitality.

4. Fertile and soft soil

Mint requires fertile, soft soil. The pot is too small, or the soil is too little, nutrition can not keep up, it will grow very slowly. So use breathable, permeable, fertile soil. Common garden soil, rotten leaf soil. Add chicken manure, it's good. It's not picky about the soil.

5. Regular pruning

Peppermint is cheap, often pruned, with its leaves to make tea what, there is no problem, the more cut the more lush, often Panasonic soil, or add some soil, or fertilizer, grow faster Oh. Be sure to put it on the balcony ventilated place.

6, pest control

Rust: May rainy season multiple, damage leaves. Control method: clean up the field, treat the diseased plants; spray 25% triadimefon 1000 times solution at the initial stage of disease.

White star disease: May-October occurrence, damage leaves. Control method: spray 50% carbendazim 100-fold solution at the initial stage of disease, or alternately spray with 1:1:120 Bordeaux mixture.

Mint pests and diseases also spot blight, rust and silver Spodoptera, etc. Spot blight disease should be removed in time, buried or burned outside the mountain field, reduce the source of infection, spray with 120 times Bordeaux mixture, or spray with 65% zinc 500 times solution. Rust should be sprayed with 15% triadimefon WP 1000 times or 40% carbendazim 800 times at the early stage of disease. Spray 90% trichlorfon 1000 times or 2,5% deltamethrin or 20% fenvalerate 1500 times.

Notes on planting potted mint

1. When it snows in winter, the mint leaves in the flowerpot wither, and they don't seem to have any vitality. Don't worry, they will sprout and grow the next spring. Its vitality is tenacious and it cannot freeze to death. It is best not to plant in flower beds because it will occupy the entire flower bed area. Preempt other plants for nutrients.

2, want mint burst basin, mint grows very fast very luxuriant, there is a small trick, is to change it once a year, spring or autumn. Change to a bigger pot, the soil is more fertile, can grow faster, because it is the same as the spider plant, even the root system development is faster than the spider plant, very quickly can occupy the entire pot inside.

3. If you want to keep the mint branches growing, you must shoot them when you see them. Peppermint blooms in autumn, and after flowering, the growth of leaves in that year basically stops. Even if not completely withered, it will enter a semi-dormant state. So if you want mint to continue to grow in winter, be sure to knock out the flowering plants. If you want to collect mint seeds to plant new mint, let mint bloom. Mint is self-pollinated and does not set seeds. It needs artificial pollination.

The main value of potted mint

edible value

Peppermint has dual functions of medical and edible, the main edible parts are stems and leaves, but also juiced clothing. In food, mint can be used as a flavoring agent, but also as a spice, but also with wine, tea and so on. Every 100 grams of dry mint contains 9, 6 grams of moisture, 6, 8 grams of protein and 31, 1 grams of fiber, which can provide 870, 7 kilojoules of heat.

Such as: mint porridge, efficacy: fresh and refreshing, wind and heat dissipation, increase appetite, help digestion.

Mint tofu, efficacy: can treat cold nasal congestion, sneezing, runny nose and other diseases.

Mint chicken shreds, efficacy: eliminate fire and relieve summer heat.

Mint cake, efficacy: cool, dispel wind heat, clear throat.

Fresh mint crucian carp soup, efficacy: can cure children cough.

Peppermint soup, efficacy: detoxification and fire.

Mint herbal tea, after drinking the whole body comfortable, energy doubled.

In addition, mint stems and leaves have special fragrance, can be used to make chewing gum, toothpaste, etc., play a cool refreshing, diarrhea effect.

In addition, mint can make honey, its honey color is deep, deep amber, with a strong mint special smell.

medicinal value

Peppermint is commonly used in Chinese medicine, tender stem tip can be used as food, the whole grass can also be used as medicine, cure cold fever throat pain, headache, red eye pain, muscle pain, skin itching rubella, measles impenetrable disease, in addition to carbuncle, gangrene, scabies, ringworm, lacquer sores are also effective.

Peppermint contains menthol, which refreshes breath and has multiple medicinal properties, relieving abdominal pain, gallbladder problems such as spasms, as well as antiseptic, diuretic, expectorant, stomachic and digestive effects. Large amounts of mint can cause insomnia, but small doses can help sleep.

Peppermint is a plant full of hope. Life inevitably has many missed people or things. There is almost no chance to meet, love and love again, but the more there is no chance, the more I miss it. Peppermint is a plain flower, but its taste is refreshing. It penetrates into the skin from every pore. Every cell in the body is transparent. It is a very happy feeling. It will make those who have lost it get a trace of comfort. So mint's flower words are "May I meet you again" and "Love me again". In addition, it also has a flower language is "virtuous people."

Time: 2019-04-12 Click: