Mint plant growing in a wide pot on a bright sunny windowsill

How to Grow Mint Indoors: Care, Harvesting and Varieties

How to Grow Mint Indoors: Care, Harvesting and Varieties Your mint looked great for a few months. Now it’s leggy, the center looks exhausted, and no amount of watering seems to help. If that sounds familiar, the problem almost certainly isn’t your care routine – it’s what most mint plant care guides never actually explain about how mint behaves in a container. Mint is a fast-growing perennial that spreads through underground runners called rhizomes. In a garden bed it can take over everything around it. In a pot, that same energy has nowhere to go – so it cycles through the root mass, exhausts the center, and starts declining from the inside out. More water and fertilizer don’t fix this. Division does. ...

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