Herbs · Perennial
Mint
Lamiaceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 30 cm
- USDA zones
- 3a–10a
- Frost-sensitive
- no
- Growth duration
- 10 weeks
Which beds suit?
- Sun (prefers)
- partial shadeAlso okay:full sunshade
- Soil (prefers)
- loamyAlso okay:raised-bed mixclay
- Drainage (prefers)
- normalAlso okay:heavy / waterlogged
Seed & start
Perennial
Plant once, returns every year.
Stachi's tip
Mint is perennial and SPREADS aggressively. Always plant in a sunken pot (bottom removed, walls kept) — or it'll take half your bed. Regular picking keeps it bushy.
The plant's year: sowing, transplanting, harvest
Sowing
No sowing weeks recorded.
Transplanting
Harvest
Good neighbours
Traditional recommendation. Rarely studied under controlled conditions — treat it as experience, not law.
Avoid these neighbours
Traditional recommendation. Rarely studied under controlled conditions — treat it as experience, not law.
Good pre-cultures
Stachi has no specific pre-cultures recorded.
Sources
- Kreuter, Bio-Garten
- LLM-Baseline
- LLM-Baseline-Intercrop
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-09 yieldKg
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 family-zehrer
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 sun-soil-drainage
Where these figures come from
- Timing
- Horticulturally established — consistent across the cited standard works.
- Spacing
- Horticulturally established — consistent across the cited standard works.
- Companion planting
- Traditional recommendation. Rarely studied under controlled conditions — treat it as experience, not law.
- Crop rotation
- Traditional recommendation. Rarely studied under controlled conditions — treat it as experience, not law.
- Yield
- Limited evidence. This value is not backed by a specialist source — treat it as a pointer.
Sources: Kreuter, Bio-Garten · LLM-Baseline · LLM-Baseline-Intercrop · LLM-Baseline-2026-05-09 yieldKg · LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 family-zehrer · LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 sun-soil-drainage
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