Mint - slung under the hedge

At the back end of last year, Mum gave me a pot-bound, raggedy mint plant to "dispose of properly".  The intention was to get something new this year. Given that refreshing our herb stock doesn't constitute an essential journey, I thought that we would have to do without.

Of course I didn't get round to dealing with the discarded mint!

Fortunately, my idea of disposing of a plant properly usually comprises removing it from its pot and slinging it under the hedge, intending to get back to it later and - of course - forgetting all about it.

Splitting the mint.

I divided it using the classic two-forks back-to-back method. Or at least, that's how it started. I ended up doing what I always do and ripping the thing apart and hoping that at least some of the leaves would stay attached to some of the roots.

Two mints for the price of none!

Given that we are unlikely to be able to more compost or grit until the end of the crisis, I wanted to avoid using any of our stock for our recycled mint. Instead, I mixed our overly heavy clay soil with the rough bits of compost - the bits of stick etc. that I sieved out when sorting out some of the good stuff for sweet pea seeds.  I'm hoping this "roughage" will provide some much-needed drainage.

Finds from my BSBI Garden Wild Flower Hunt

I wouldn't want you to think that I spent the whole weekend doing proper gardening. On Good Friday, I spend some time doing the BSBI's Garden Wild Flower Hunt.