🌿🌱🍃 Mint Long-Leaved Seeds (Mentha longifolia) – 100 Seeds – Fragrant, Hardy Perennial Herb

Description:

🌿 Latin Name: Mentha longifolia
🌱 Common Name: Mint Long-Leaved
📦 Quantity: 100 seeds
🌱 Type: Hardy perennial herb with long, aromatic leaves

Mint Long-Leaved is a vigorous and aromatic mint variety prized for its elongated leaves and strong, refreshing mint flavor. It thrives in a variety of climates and is perfect for teas, culinary dishes, and natural remedies.

This hardy mint spreads easily and makes an excellent ground cover or container plant.

🌞 Sowing Time:

• Indoors: Start seeds 8–10 weeks before last frost

• Outdoors: Sow or transplant after danger of frost has passed

• Succession Planting: Sow in spring and early summer for continuous harvest

🪴 Growing Instructions:

• Sowing Depth: 0.5 cm (1/4 inch)

• Spacing: Thin or transplant seedlings 30 cm (12 inches) apart

• Germination Temperature: 18–22°C (64–72°F)

• Germination Time: 10–15 days

• Light: Full sun to partial shade

• Watering: Keep soil moist but well-drained; tolerates some drought once established

🌱 Soil & Conditions:

• Soil Type: Moist, fertile, well-draining soil

• Soil pH: 6.0–7.5

• Fertilizer: Light feeding with balanced fertilizer or compost

• Climate: Prefers mild to warm climates; hardy in USDA zones 4–9

🧑🌾 Usage:

• Fresh leaves for teas, cocktails, desserts, and salads

• Used in traditional medicine and aromatherapy

• Great for ground cover, companion planting, and pollinator gardens

• Can be dried for later use

🌿 Plant Characteristics:

• Leaf Shape: Long, lance-shaped aromatic leaves

• Plant Height: 40–60 cm (16–24 inches)

• Maturity: Ready to harvest in 70–90 days

• Growth Habit: Spreading perennial, vigorous grower

The package contains 0.1 g of high-quality long-leaved mint seeds which is about 100 seeds.