There are many varieties of mint, but as an ordinary person, like mint, if you want to try home potted plants, it is best to choose edible mint vanilla directly, so that while exercising and cultivating emotions, you can facilitate your desire to eat and pick at any time.
Of course, peppermint is very adaptable and can be sown and raised all year round.
However, in the autumn and winter stage, because the subsequent temperature is getting lower and lower, so if you want the plant to grow well, the cold branches and leaves are still evergreen, you need to pay more attention to the following details during the daily maintenance period.
First of all, pay attention to the appropriate soil and flower pots.
If you want to cultivate mint in autumn and winter, in order to prevent it from being disturbed by low temperatures and have a large area of yellow leaf dead branches, you need to always take the form of potted plants, which is convenient for moving in and out at any time, moving to the right position, and ensuring that the plant has been in a state of growth.
In addition, although the barren soil can also meet the basic needs of mint survival, if you want the stems and leaves to grow faster and more worry-free, you need to directly use loose and breathable fertile nutrient soil, so that the usual lack of fertilizer will not affect the next generation of plant reproduction and the trunk to grow more side branches.
Second, we need to give light and water in light in light of changes in the environment.
Peppermint only likes weak scattered light illumination, when the temperature gradually falls, the light intensity will continue to weaken, in this gradual change process, we need to give the plant all day sunshine.
However, if the temperature of the natural environment continues to be below 8 degrees, then it is necessary to move the mint potted plants indoors in time to keep warm and cold.
During this period, it is still necessary to give sufficient light and place the potted plants in a place where there is enough loose light and convenient ventilation.
When the weather is generally sunny and the natural temperature outside is not lower than 0 degrees, we can take advantage of the good daytime weather to open the windows to promote indoor and outdoor air convection, create a better home environment, and escort the healthy growth of mint.
If the temperature outside is persistently low, the windows can be closed tightly (provided that too many peppermint pots are not placed indoors to prevent them from competing for oxygen or carbon dioxide).
In addition, mint prefers a moist soil environment, so if the potted soil is breathable enough, even in autumn and winter, the time between indoor watering should not exceed 5 days.
Of course, if the indoor temperature is low and cannot be continuously stabilized above 15 degrees, we should not wet all the soil at once when watering, but only slightly moisten the soil with the help of a shower.
In both wet and dry soil states, it is necessary to flip the soil to let the air enter the soil, or let the water escape from the soil in time.
In addition, mint needs to be picked from time to time, if you often use its stems and leaves to cook, then you can not deliberately prune off some of the branches and leaves, stimulate the development of new stems and leaves.
If we don't pick it normally, we'd better learn to pick the top regularly and prune the branches and leaves at least once a month.
In addition, autumn is a critical period for mint seeds, at which point we can stop pruning and let them slowly die. During this period, a part of the naturally aged branches (carrying seeds) can be pruned off, and then thrown into the loose and fertile soil for open maintenance, so that the seeds will emerge at any time, and under the right temperature, they will grow wildly and spread.