Dear Reader,
My garden is overflowing with apple mint. It's a wonderful plant that has a lot of the same properties of regular mint. It just has a subtle apple aftertaste. Apple mint goes wonderfully with ham. It can be dried and used to make a soothing and relaxing tea that helps with sore throats, just like regular mint. In the dried state, apple mint's apple-like notes are not as strong. This seems to be the reverse of what usually happens when you dry something. I don't know why. It could be there's a problem in my drying technique.
I'd post a picture of my garden right now but it's raining. Apple mint is a plant that can be started from a cutting rooted in water. I have found that if you root it in water, you'll want to plant it shortly there after. You don't need to apply rooting hormone to get this plant to put out roots. In the ground, apple mint produces runners and will spread that way to take over your garden. If you don't want apple mint popping up in the middle of your hostas like mine is, when you plant it, put it into a bucket with some holes in the bottom. Make sure the bucket is deep enough that the runners can't get out the holes at the bottom. Then your mint will fill up the bucket and not take over the garden.
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