SPEARMINT

Species: Mint
Latin name: Mentha Spicata L. or Mentha Viridis L.
Other usual name: Roman mint - Soft Mint
Variety: Spearmint
Family: Labiacées, (Menthaceae)
Origin: Mediterranean Europe

Spearmint: Aromatic and medicinal hardy perennial easy to grow. Mint has persistent light green leaves with small light pink flowers. Often used in inhalation it is used to hill some respiratory diseases, it is also used like a culinary herb for cooking and desserts. Collect progressively as you need, preferably in the morning in order to take the maximum of flavor.

Seed sowing: Mars to April
Collect mint: June to October
Height: 30 to 60 cm
Exposure: Sunny to Half shade

Sowing instructions: Sowing in seedbed cover seeds about 2 mm with a sandy soil, pack slightly, when the seedlings are strong enough you will be able to transplant them in place, you can also saw directly in place starting May.

Sowing distance: 30 cm by 30 cm
Minimum seed sowing temperature: 18 °C
Seed germination: 30 days
Nutritional value: Kcal to the 100 gr.

Net weight of seeds: 0.3 gr. = +/- 1500 seeds

All our seeds are sold with their sowing instructions.