You’ll never need to buy mint again (Image: Getty)
Remembering to buy herbs every single time you’re in the supermarket can get tedious, and a woman has shared that there’s something you can do to prevent having to do this every single time you fancy trying out a new recipe.
Martha Swales, who posts on social media as Marf’s Kitchen and Garden, shared that if you buy mint from a supermarket once, for 55p, that should be the only time that you buy it, because with her method, you can unlock “unlimited mint”.
Martha explained that it’s “so easy to do,” as you just “strip off the bottom leaves, pop it in a glass of water, and three weeks later, you have roots”.
Martha showed that she’d placed the mint in the glass on a windowsill so that the mint was able to get a bit of light throughout the day.
The mint is “then ready to go in a pot in the garden”. She said: “Seriously though, don’t put this straight into the ground. Mint will spread everywhere, and you’ll never get rid of it”.
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She added “peat-free compost into the pot,” noting that “mint will grow in just about anything,” so it doesn’t overly matter, and you can just see what you have available to you.
Martha popped it in the pot in the springtime, and she said it “grew amazingly well through the summer,” and she was able to harvest “loads of mint”.
“But here’s the secret to everlasting mint. At the end of the summer, it gets tired. But it’s not game over. Just cut it back, put some fresh compost on top, give it a water, and you’ll have new shoots in a few weeks,” she shared.
But what’s the best way to harvest mint? Martha recommended pinching off the tips, “because it promotes new side shoots […] where the leaf joins the stem”.
Martha said after the winter, it might “go a bit purple” and look a bit “miserable,” but just use the same trick again.
“Just cut back the stems, fresh compost on top, a little bit of plant food, and look how lush it grew back,” she said, as the video focused on a stunning green mint plant that was full of shoots.
Cutting stems and rooting them in water is a good way to make more mint plants, and then you pop them into a pot.
If you want to make mint tea with the leaves, Martha also explained how. “Pop it between two sheets of kitchen paper and leave it for a few days until it’s crispy and dry. The great thing is, when you make tea out of this, the leaves hydrate as though they’re fresh,” she said.
Not bad, and you can save yourself some serious money on mint tea by using this method! You just need to buy one initial packet of mint.
Will you be trying this for yourself? Let us know in the comments…
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