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A mint plant with withered leaves sits on a window sill. - Valeria Vechterova/Getty Images Mint has a reputation for being so easy to grow and more difficult to keep under control in your garden than ...

Mint is the ultimate beginner's herb: Resilient, fragrant, and difficult to kill. It grows fast, smells incredible, and transforms everything from tea to dinner recipes with minimal effort on your ...

Mint consists of a very broad family of 3,500 plants, and all of them have square stems and opposite leaves. Aside from that, each type of mint is incredibly different; you may not have known as ...

I had a craving for fresh mint. I wanted to toss it with sliced oranges, knead it into meatballs and steep it for tea, even though January is not mint’s time. The supermarket had it in little plastic ...

There are a number of gardening “holidays” and observances that we might choose to celebrate in the month of June. Among others, June is National Pollinator Month, National Great Outdoors Month, ...

There are ways to tell if you’ve overwatered a potted plant. If it sends up a periscope and a white flag, you’re keeping it too wet. Many of us bring outdoor container plants indoors for the winter ...