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Chocolate mint! I'll see if

greenlagirl — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:03:20 -0500

Chocolate mint! I'll see if the herb woman at the farmers' market sells them, or look into getting a clipping from someone. Drinkable thin mints sound fun :)

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Try chocolate mint

Mary Clare Hunt — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:16:47 -0500

If you want a really fine tea, grow chocolate mint. It's like drinking a girl scout cookie. Just don't grow it next to spearmint which will crush it's little life.

As for urban gardens - I've been growing organic veggies with teen moms for a couple of years. This weekend some eagle scouts put in a drip irrigation system and already everything looks happier. The California sun on raised beds made it difficult to keep them hydrated.

Hopefully my mint'll be

greenlagirl — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:07:08 -0500

Hopefully my mint'll be easier to contain, since it has its own pot :) I LOVE tabbouli -- used to eat it all the time while in France -- and am now off to look for yummy tabbouli recipes -- greenlagirl.com

Mint is wonderful

Kalyn Denny — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:19:57 -0500

I just adore mint, and it's notoriously easy to grow. I say notoriuously because if you plant it in a spot where it's not contained, it will spread out through underground runners and take over your garden. My two favorite uses for fresh mint are Tabbouli (use a lot of mint and parsley for a true middle eastern version) and a salad my Iranian friend Massoud taught me to make (which he just calls "salad" but I call it Middle Eastern Salad.) It's equal parts of finely diced tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet onions, mint, and parsley with a dressing of olive oil and lemon juice. The sum is so much greater than the parts. I could eat this all day.

Kalyn Denny
Kalyn's Kitchen

Mint miracle: Organic gardening gone right

greenlagirl — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:39:18 -0500

Behold -- Mint has risen up from the dead(ish).

Plants are magical. I got this mint as a clipping from Jenn and Nat, neighbors of mine who have a whole urban edible garden.

All Nat did was chop off the top part of one of his mint plants, pinch off a few leaves, then instruct me to poke it into dirt and water it.

This is how the mint looked at first. But now, I have real, living mint plants!

Granted, I got 2 clippings, and the left seems to be doing a lot better than the right one, which appears somewhat damaged and yellowish, though not yet dead --

Mojitos are in order -- And I recommend that all urban gals with a balcony get themselves a lil mint clipping --

Photo by Siel, green LA girl.

BlogHer Contributing Editor Siel also blogs at greenLAgirl.com.