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Spearmint
Spearmint is a sweet mint that can be used for culinary and aroma therapeutic purposes. It grows well in moist soil and warm weather, but will tolerate drought and light frost. It’s flowers attract honeybees and other pollinators to the garden. Read on for tips to grow, harvest, and use this common garden mint. Growing Spearmint Spearmint is drought tolerate, but well watered spearmint will be finer, and brighter green in color. This is an herb that spreads quickly by its roots. Like most mint, spearmint will send out horizontal stems, and each leaf group will root into the soil. This makes spearmint an easy plant to separate and move…