You can also grow your own peppermint easily.
An array of fixed TDR probes was monitored over two growing seasons under peppermint in northwest Montana, to estimate θ, ECs, and NO3 N every 6 h at 12 field locations.
Guests who are lucky enough to be staying at the super-luxurious Tortuga Bay hotel (designed by Oscar de la Renta) or the newly opened Westin Puntacana Resort and Club, are able to enjoy the organically grown arugula, lettuce, peppermint, basil, parsley and honey produced by the Foundation, which are served at those properties' restaurants.
Peppermint is generally very easy to grow and enjoys sunny and semi-shaded spots.
The others I grow are "Candy Dancer" which has crisp, very deeply cut leaves, and peppermint-scented "Chocolate Peppermint" with huge hairy leaves, dull green with a chocolate-coloured blotch in the centre.
But now he and a group of other farmers living around Myddfai, Carmarthenshire, have set up a cooperative which aims to grow and sell herbs such as parsley, sage, catnip, peppermint, arnica and lemon balm for use in herbal remedies.
Mint is difficult to grow from seed, and it is virtually impossible for some varieties, like peppermint.
Both subspecies grow in nutrient-poor well-drained sandstone soils, in open woodland with trees such as Sydney peppermint (Eucalyptus piperita), silvertop ash (E. sieberi), grey gum (E. punctata), narrow-leaved stringybark (E.
Peppermint should be grown in pots because it can be invasive.
