My favorite international grocery store has a bed full of these. I collected a couple seed pods no one was going to miss, planted them in the fall by the street where it gets no water or fert. Then two different utilities companies tore up the ground twice in winter. Just one plant came up.
@jblue@gardening@plants The recipe is nice with either reconstituted or fresh root. The preparation is the same for both; soak the roots in cold water for a bit, then rub with salt & rinse.
Seed packet had only around 10 seeds but the butterflies seemed to like the few plants that came up so will save seeds. The idea was to plant something smallish but tallish near tricky to pollinate plants so bugs can find tiny flowers. (Achocha, miracle berry, etc.)
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That’s a beautiful flower. I planted some ordinary mint (something I’m usually not fond of due to its invasive nature) in a big grow bag. The bees LOVE it, now that it’s blooming. My plan for next year is to plant different mint varieties in a bag like this near my vegetable garden. That way I can control the spread while the bees can enjoy themselves.
@KayVay@plants@gardening I grow mint in a dry bed but I don’t want it anywhere near my veg or tropical plants. I’ve already found it growing in with some of my topical trees and it’s been a struggle to pull out all the roots and not damage my trees. That said, I have native mountain mint (Pycnanthemum muticum) in the same pots with large sub tropical trees (white/black sapote, loquat) bc it keeps the rabbits out. (They jump up and build nests in the pots.)